Dagget's, Bahia de Los Angeles

New Years Day

We are in Bahia de Los Angeles at Daggets RV park New Years Day. It is windy but the sun is shining today so all is as it should be. This place has showers…. This is good. Warm running water, no matter how small the dribble is …. always good. We maybe have internet at our site in the mornings while the sun is shining on the host’s solar panels, this is also good. We have only the electricity that we generate with our own solar panels.

We made friends with our British neighbours John and Faye who have lived for a long time in White Rock (still have their family home there) and who now live in Sointula for the summer (an island off the coast of Northern Vancouver Island, near Alert Bay and Port McNeil). He worked at Triumph at UBC in Vancouver. Triumph is a nuclear research accelerator and John was a science technician so built parts and repaired it. It’s not clear that he is totally retired from this. He can likely fix anything.  We have an open invitation to their beautiful home on the beach on Sointula.

It is warm enough in the shelter of the motor home that I can play my banjo outside (it’s an outdoor activity, according to Lorne). Since I have been deprived of playing the banjo for some time now this is very good!

It is usually very windy here this time of year, although we have had some nice kayaking mornings in previous years.  Yesterday we used a spectacular wind-LESS day to drive around the bay in the 4x4 to see the small community of Gringo houses on that side.  In hindsite it would have been a great day - all day - to kayak!!  Who knew?  The wind can spring up very quickly here and we just expected it to start anytime....  Today it was a beautiful morning so up we got, unleashed the kayaks, were ready to hop in, and the wind sprang up.  Before our eyes the flat water turned to ever increasig whitecaps - so since we are very inexperienced kayakers yet experienced enough to know that it would be more like work than fun, we retired to our alternate activities.

The change in light makes a surreal picture



The change in light throughout the day on the mountains is amazing



 These look like cinder cones from the volcano long ago



The sun setting across the bay

The sun shining on the mountains across the bay

The different colors of the rock look like a painting to me

These cirio cactus (also called Boojum trees) grow as tall as 18 meters and as old as 360 years.   These have blooms at their top. 

We plan on staying here till Thursday the 6th before heading south to San Lucas Cove, then El Coyote for a few days, then on to Ligui for a day, then La Paz to stock up on good groceries (that means steak and excellent Mexican chicken) and arriving in Los Barriles by the 13th so we can still see the Kite boarding (and bikini) contest.