Shrine at the Tropic of Cancer, on our way between Cabo Pulmo and Todos Santos
The beach near Todos Santos
Whales!
The whales came within 100 feet of us as we stood on the beach near Todos Santos
Sunset over the Pacific near Todos Santos
Homemade popsicles! We tried the pistachio, melon, cookies and cream and strawberry yogurt with chocolate in our two trips to this shop - YUM!
Homemade popsicles!
Roadside shrine near El Pescadero, just south of Todos Santos
Surfing with Mario at Los Cerritos beach
Debbie's surfing!
Brett boogie boarding
Baraja Taqueria in Todos Santos
Relaxing by the pool at Todos Santos Inn
They kept the pool at about 90 degrees - ahhhh
Con magarita
The terrace at Todos Santos Inn
Weaving through the palm trees to get to San Pedrito beach
Pelicans and seagulls lifting off at San Pedrito beach
San Pedrito beach
An old building foundation on San Pedrito beach
Lizard next to San Pedrito beach
Our casita at Nancy's
Brett and his crispy swim trunks
With 300 thread-count sheets and a 500 mattress
Inside the casita
Monarch butterfly next to our casita at Nancy's
Bananas!
Next to the casita
Roasting poblanos for chile relleno
Guajillo chile - Nancy highly recommended this ingredient for most anything Mexican and then some!
Our cooking lesson with Nancy in her kitchen
The best chile relleno I've ever had
Cabo Pulmo beach
The sound of the rocks at the beach
The moon rising as we enjoyed cervezas just above the beach under the seaside restaurant's palapa
View toward the south from the restaurant palapa (palm roofed shelter)
The full lunar eclipse while we were in Cabo Pulmo
The walk to the beach from Nancy's
This is the life...
Heading to the beach for more snorkeling
Jetting across Cabo Pulmo bay
Leaping bat rays Batman!
Bat rays jumping like popcorn out of the sea all around us
Brett swimming with the jacks, that look from the surface like little sharks
A school of jacks
A beautiful smokestack designed by none other than Gustav Eiffel, in the once gold mining town of El Triunfo
Dolphins playing in the bay on the way to Espiritu Santo
Balancing rock, on the south end of Espiritu Santo
Squeezing through the opening between walls of rock
West shore of Espiritu Santo
From a small cave on the west side of Espiritu Santo
Crabs!
Seals on Los Islotes (very small islands on the north end of Espiritu Santo) - see the crab, too?
More seals, right where we were snorkeling
The white coral beach where we had lunch on Espiritu Santo
The motor that betrayed us halfway back to La Paz
Not a bad place to be stuck with our friendly Northern CA and Camas, WA boatmates
After a gas infusion from a local skiff operator, the boat driver got the engine going well enough to get us within walking distance of Pichilingue beach, about 15 minute drive from La Paz
Adios!
Espiritu Santo from above
Near sunset at the La Paz Malecon
Plaza Constitution in La Paz
The balancing rock fountain in La Paz's Plaza de Constitution
Rancho Viejo tacos as we watched the parade on the La Paz Maleco'n (boardwalk)
The proud drag queens!
Boogying brothers!
We loved the over the top outfits and the disco lighting on the floats
I just loved the gold shorts - he danced non stop in his tight gold outfit!
La Cerveza goes for a tumble at the end of the parade route
And then gets in a playful rumble
The eggs filled with confetti were very popular items to throw at the floats and break over eachothers heads
One of the confetti-filled eggs - these took the place of the beaded necklaces that are tossed around in New Orlean's Mardi Gras
My egg's unsuspecting recipient
Vaso Loco - Pacifico lager, Clamato, salt and lime with a chili rim - we discovered that it tastes as bad as it sounds!
Yum! Gorditas! Somewhere between pancakes and thick, sweet flour tortillas
Grande Pacifico - this was the smaller of the two sizes available!
Fruitlandia!
Fruitlandia!!
Note that the men are applying all the makeup in this cosmetics booth
Delicioso! Mango that they would sprinkle with lime, salt and chile sauce
100 ways with sugar
These rug guys would work themselves into a sweat - there was always a large crowd around them, listening to catch the best deal we assumed
Para Mamy
The Carneval experience
Mui Grande!
Sugary goodness bubbling away
The attendants for this bungee jump ride would hang on to the rider and bounce them higher and higher before...
letting them fly!
