Day 148 Santiparc Beach Baja California Mexico

After the fun of the previous night we were all pretty wiped and spent most of the day lazing around doing nothing. I felt ok physically but was just annoyed all day at the weather. It was lovely and warm… in the sun. Under the shade it was kinda cold, I huddled in my tent and every 20 minutes the wind would pick up and try to lift it off and down the beach for a minute. I tied it down the previous day which stopped it. Sheena slept nearly the entire day which put paid to my plans of driving into town to sort out my flat tire, by the time she had gotten up and went for a walk I was dozing myself and the day was wasted. Every night we would be woken by the trucks passing along the highway and although it was forbidden, they would all use their engines as brakes. The sound of the throbbing engines would cascade down the cove like a huge passing dragon that was thundering past, roaring as it went and for some it would be too distracting to sleep a full night.

I had set up my solar shower but it didn’t even get luke warm all day. Pat, Drake and Sheena walked over to the Jimmy Buffet night for a hamburger and a drink while I sat in the car burning DVDs. They were soon back as the place was packed out. We fired up another couple of toxic logs and sipped hot chocolate and marshmallows before retiring to the van to watch ‘knocked up’….



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