Last week was another much needed break from school. Since there was no planned field trip prior to the break we decided to plan our own excursion. What started as a couple of people venturing south turned into a caravan of 13 people. We rented a house in Kino Bay, a beautiful and relatively undeveloped bay on the Sea of Cortez -- right across from Baja. Kino is a vacation destination for Mexicans from the city and an old fishing village. The Seri Indians roamed this land and still carve ironwood trees in to beautiful replicas of the mariscos that inhabit the sea there: tortoise, seals, shark, jelly fish, etc. I bought one of a saguaro cactus, but you could hardly call that sea food.
It was a very odd feeling to suddenly plunge our bodies into about 90% humidity and then take the final leap into the ocean -- to not only see water but then actually immerse our bodies in it! I have been having withdrawals from the humidity already -- the first and second nights back in AZ were terrible, i felt like a big piece of sandpaper and I couldn’t breath through my nose because it was drying it out too much.
The ocotillo and saguaros, the organ pipe and their cousins, the bearded senitas, all these cacti grow right up to the turquoise water. Elephant trees too, much bigger and without leaves. The Seri use the elephant to weave baskets, and the pelicans for their pelts!
Many Strange Friends Awaited Us
There were a lot of cows just out roaming the strees, those in addition to the horses that were whinnying and galloping up and down the streets at any given moment. I was scared to drive since they didn’t exactly obey the stop signs, i could just see myself bowled over by a horse.
Antojitos: the best part of the day
Selling Clams for the Shucking
The Fixins for the Best Crab Tostadas Ever
La Haiba
Fishing
Neil and I went fishing off the rocks one day and I caught this:
The next day we got our friend Felix "el Gato" to take a bunch of us out fishing and to show us how to make the local equivalent of fishing poles from empty soda bottles and line. It was fun and we caught a lot more sea bass and triggerfish -- not mention el pulpo -- the mighty octopus. We used el pulpo's head for bait and ate el pulpo's body, but not before it sucked me with its suckers!
Hills Tries Out her Snorkle, Gato Stalking the Fish
Neil Fishing in his Boots
we did get a little sick, but the ocean was worth it.
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