MarlinMonroe
Registered: March 27, 2008
Posts: 324
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| | Dec 18, 2008 at 02:54 PM | | #10 |
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So, off to La Paz and on to Todos Santos next morning. Headed back to Santa Rosalia at noon and that takes 9 hours, including some white-knuckle night driving with cattle on the road frequently. Drive end to end in Santa Rosalia and settle for Oasis (I think) motel - spartan would best describe the room, but for $300 pesos with AC and TV, what do you expect. The guys at Pemex tried to send me to La Roca, but I did not find it until the next day because the sign is so small and the entrance is not easily spotted. It looks like a much nicer place, and has wifi. Internet and cell coverage is much more advanced in San Carlos than most of Baja. There were many 50-70 mile stretches of road with no phone signal, and one stretch of almost 100 between Pemex stations. Spent the whole day in Santa Rosalia fishing from shore and caught corvina and cabrilla. The ferry is sitting in the dock, but there is a wait until the Friday night return trip. Another Military and drug dog inspection and they begin loading at 7:45. We clear the harbor at 8:30 and it's about 8 hours later that you pass San Carlos. Seems like it takes forever to get into the dock at Guaymas, but I am off and driving at 6:30AM. I had spent part of the night trying to sleep in the truck, but it is very bright and a little stuffy in the cargo hold. I went up and threw down a blanket and pillow by the wheelhouse as I had seen a couple of guys do on the trip over - that gets cold/wet/hard real fast. Seas were calmer on the way home with 2-3 footers. On the way over I saw some green faces by the toilets with the 3-4 footers we were rocking to. The toilets apparently ran out of water for the last hour of the trip. Watch the stairs going to the lower level - they are steep and hardwood with metal edges. I went for a painful ride downstairs after coming in from the wet deck.
Luckily, this was a business trip and the $600 was expensed. Be sure to pay with pesos, as the price list is shown at 10 to 1 and I suspect it would have cost $750 in dollars.
I had thought about taking my boat on the trailer across at one time, to fish at San Marcos. That is out of the question - adding a 27 foot trailer would drive the cost up to $9980P each way! All in all, it was an adventure, and I'd like to go back and see more of Baja some day.
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