Fast Eddie and the Slow Learners were the featured band on Valentine's night at Lupe's (formerly known as Ana's) restaurant/bar at Santispac Beach. I went up to the beach Feb 10 and returned to Loreto yesterday. Lupe's served dinner to a packed house for Valentine's night followed by dancing to the live band. The band began slow and easy with guitars, percussion, harmonica and vocals progressing to faster music early on. As usual, these are oldies songs from the 50's - 80's. I went for dessert, listened a bit and headed back to my little home on the shore. Santispac is dry camping, but there are amenities. Two beach restaurants, outhouses, showers for a fee, fresh water (non-potable), venders selling souvenirs, fish, scallops, lobster, vegetables, empanadas and tamales. There is even a weekly laundry pickup and delivery and an ice cream truck. The beaches are filled mostly with Canadians. Not as many Americans on the roads. The general feeling is they are afraid to come down to Mexico because of the bad news being reported. Those of us here in Southern Baja do not have that fear and do not see a reason to stay away from the southern Baja state. Parts of the Mainland Mexico..........yes. Back to Santispac............there are other popular beaches along the Bay of Concepcion and basically the same: Burro, Coco, Coyote, Perla, Requeson are some of them. We have our favorites and tend to go back to a beach with familiar friends. Some people stay a few days or a week or so like me and others are situated for months with solar power and solar heated showers. The new palapa Santispac Restaurant specializes in Mexican seafood and had quite good food. Lupe's has both Mexican and gringo food...some good...other just so-so. Each restaurant has a bar so you can get a beverage of choice. I took some pictures this time of the beach and will post those. My first picture shows my camping spot on the shore. I was able to get one of the palapas and used my tarps to make a wind break. The second picture shows the Santispac Seafood palapa restaurant and the little two door white building in the distance is an outhouse. There are barrels of water and empty jugs to use for flushing in the outhouse. Someone keeps the barrels filled and cleans the facility with bleach daily. The third picture shows a few campers on the SW portion of the beach. Several people have begun their journey north and the beach was becoming empty. In a few weeks, during Easter Break, the beach will be packed (I have yet to see this) with tents 4 deep and 4-5000 campers and carnival rides. The remaining pictures show an orange substance that washed up on shore Sunday morning. Monday morning it was gone from this beach, but I saw it along the shore at Coyote and Requeson. I stuck my hand into the orange substance, pulled it out and there were what looked liked teeny tiny tiny translucent eggs on my hand. the orange substance dripped off. The final picture shows hands coated with these "eggs". Do any of you know what it is? Perhaps roe and sperm from some critter? Just talked with Marine Biologist here at Loreto Shores and what he has seen from a distance looks similar to a Cyano Bacteria he has seen in the open ocean. He said if it is a Cyano Bacteria, what I saw that looked like "eggs" would be clumping of the bacteria. The bacteria is microscopic and as it clumps together it becomes visible to the human eye.
National Cemetery located on Mt. Scott in Portland, OR. A little flag is placed on every, yes every, Veteran's gravesite. Cemetery is large and the waving flags spill over the hills. It is an awesome sight. Here are some pictures of just a small portion of the cemetery.
While at Santispac, I drove out to Ray's place to see if the restaurant was open again after the big Fall storm. Yes, it is open he is adding a sunday brunch to the thursday, friday, saturday schedule. On the way back there was this big bull standing in the road trying to get back to his pasture. The third picture shows a young man jumping the fence to come up behind the bull and chase it home. Ray's Restaurant is located in the agrigultural flood plain 2 miles west of the ice house at Mulege. Once you figure out where to turn off the main highway to get to the ice house, take a left turn and just follow the signs. Ray has managed to put enough signs to make his place easy to find. On each corner where you might question which way to go he has a sign with an arrow. The restaurant is 2 miles on a sand/dirt road and takes you past farms with fields of vegetables and, of course, some cows too.
Fast Eddie and the Slow Learners were the featured band on Valentine's night at Lupe's (formerly known as Ana's) restaurant/bar at Santispac Beach. I went up to the beach Feb 10 and returned to Loreto yesterday. Lupe's served dinner to a packed house for Valentine's night followed by dancing to the live band. The band began slow and easy with guitars, percussion, harmonica and vocals progressing to faster music early on. As usual, these are oldies songs from the 50's - 80's. I went for dessert, listened a bit and headed back to my little home on the shore. Santispac is dry camping, but there are amenities. Two beach restaurants, outhouses, showers for a fee, fresh water (non-potable), venders selling souvenirs, fish, scallops, lobster, vegetables, empanadas and tamales. There is even a weekly laundry pickup and delivery and an ice cream truck. The beaches are filled mostly with Canadians. Not as many Americans on the roads. The general feeling is they are afraid to come down to Mexico because of the bad news being reported. Those of us here in Southern Baja do not have that fear and do not see a reason to stay away from the southern Baja state. Parts of the Mainland Mexico..........yes. Back to Santispac............there are other popular beaches along the Bay of Concepcion and basically the same: Burro, Coco, Coyote, Perla, Requeson are some of them. We have our favorites and tend to go back to a beach with familiar friends. Some people stay a few days or a week or so like me and others are situated for months with solar power and solar heated showers. The new palapa Santispac Restaurant specializes in Mexican seafood and had quite good food. Lupe's has both Mexican and gringo food...some good...other just so-so. Each restaurant has a bar so you can get a beverage of choice. I took some pictures this time of the beach and will post those. My first picture shows my camping spot on the shore. I was able to get one of the palapas and used my tarps to make a wind break. The second picture shows the Santispac Seafood palapa restaurant and the little two door white building in the distance is an outhouse. There are barrels of water and empty jugs to use for flushing in the outhouse. Someone keeps the barrels filled and cleans the facility with bleach daily. The third picture shows a few campers on the SW portion of the beach. Several people have begun their journey north and the beach was becoming empty. In a few weeks, during Easter Break, the beach will be packed (I have yet to see this) with tents 4 deep and 4-5000 campers and carnival rides. The remaining pictures show an orange substance that washed up on shore Sunday morning. Monday morning it was gone from this beach, but I saw it along the shore at Coyote and Requeson. I stuck my hand into the orange substance, pulled it out and there were what looked liked teeny tiny tiny translucent eggs on my hand. the orange substance dripped off. The final picture shows hands coated with these "eggs". Do any of you know what it is? Perhaps roe and sperm from some critter? Just talked with Marine Biologist here at Loreto Shores and what he has seen from a distance looks similar to a Cyano Bacteria he has seen in the open ocean. He said if it is a Cyano Bacteria, what I saw that looked like "eggs" would be clumping of the bacteria. The bacteria is microscopic and as it clumps together it becomes visible to the human eye.
