Sonora, Mexico Sierra del Pinacate Range Desert Mexico | May It is North America's last frontier, a barren, hundred-mile stretch of blackness and inhospitability. It is The Pinacate, named after its primary inhabitant; a rather insignificant beetle which stands on its head and lets out a rather putrid odor. Read It
Baja Norte, Mexico Tijuana and El Rosario Desert Mexico | April "...Under
our feet was a giant hole in the earth. The sea had cut an underground
cave and settled here: a stretch of beach underneath the earth. Four seals
were in the water. One had no head. Sharks. Somehow, this hole led to
the sea, and we wanted to find out, but, "paddling in there is too dangerous.
Lets put that out of our minds right now." Read It
Bahia de Los Angeles Desert Mexico | April "...From
here I could see the white lights and flickering neon of Bahìa de Los
Angeles - reportedly named for the white islands in the distance which
resemble angels, but the city itself hasn't grown since Steinbeck griped
about too many new buildings in 1940. A thousand people, if that. The
Angel Islands; fifty-mile long Isla de la Guarda, for example, is one
of the most pristine and untouched islands in the world; but sparse and
void of little other than reptiles and scrub..." Read It
San Felipe Desert Mexico | April "...Two
hours later and twenty miles along the road to Puertocitas, we passed
out of a canyon and onto a saline flat. This was the lowest, hottest,
dreariest flat: white sand, ocotillo, not even a creosote. We saw a flash
of silver in the distance - a building maybe. Some time later, we came
upon it; a strange otherworldly shanty made of ocotillo and hanging cans
of Tecate. I pulled the truck up. The sign said, "Cold Beer." This was
the first sign of man since Chapala. " Read It
Mountains of Baja Norte Desert Mexico | April "....But I wanted to find this out for myself, so I shoved Sonora through the marsh and circled the bouldery islands near the northern shore. No fish, but the view of the granite peaks at night from these islands was stunning; and the Milky Way was bright enough to lead me around the islands and onto them; between the pines and under uneven boulders. " Read It
Canyons of Baja Norte Desert Mexico | April "...These
palms are oddly the only major species endemic to the Californias. But
the fan palms are magnificent in their natural state; forming dark, cool
canopies of mosque-like interiors, '.and a giant rattlesnake too', Vance
would say later. " Read It
Baja Sur, Mexico
Mulegé Desert Mexico | June "...I like the idea of being where I am now, in a place where roosters are crooning about, and people are selling used hack-saws and post-hole diggers and air-compressors. Actually, I am beneath that place, at the bank of the clammy-green Rio Mulegé, in the reedy section where most of the water is stagnant and swampy. " Read It
The Islets of Bahia Coyote Desert Mexico | June "...What
in light-muddled night assumes an eerie bioluminescence, is in complete
darkness, magic. Hans and I understood little about the flagellate plankton
that glow bright green when slightly agitated as a way of scaring predators.
But days later, when we settled our campsite at a palapa in Bahia Coyote,
we rolled our kayaks off the sand, out into the quiet Cortez, and north,
to Isla Piedra, and on its Eastern shores." Read It
Guerrero Negro Desert Mexico | June "...In
the morning, Father and I made coffee and looked at the sifters, examining
their simplicity - the way the larger stones would separate from the smaller
pebbles. A pair pulled up to the cliff and greeted us. "You have any beer?"
they said. I said, "we have water. You want water." "Si." I offered them
my canister as they began to haul white bags up the cliff, resting for
a few minutes between each load. " Read It
Isla Espiritu Santo Micro Update | Desert Mexico | May "...Elephants, too, were once aquatic animals; their skin is testament to this. Fossils found on both sides of the Pacific indicate they were actually deepwater creatures who swam the entire ocean...." Read It
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