We read – and were told - that camping at Laguna Ojo de Liebre and catching a whale watching trip from there was a lot less expensive than taking a trip from Guerrero Negro. Not necessarily true. We took the 16+ mile trip in on the washboard road to the camping area so we could check out the boats first thing in the morning. The cost was $560 pesos ($40 USD)per person without a naturalist guide or $700 pesos ($50USD) with a guide for a 1-1/2 hour trip. Tobey decided not to go, but I went on the trip without a naturalist. It was fun and we saw a lot of whales, but none of them came up to the boat like we had on our first experience on the way down the Baja.
We did go through the mini-museum where they had lots of information on the gray whales, migration, mating, and conservation efforts. It was really well done. While I was on the boat, Tobey got everything packed up and ready to go and retrace our drive back down that 16+ mile washboard road!
We stopped in Guerrero Negro at El Muelle Food Truck for fish tacos. They were pretty tasty! It was parked in front of another whale watch excursion office, so we checked out their prices – $600 pesos per person ($43USD) and it included lunch and transportation. When we took the trip from town we paid $650 pesos ($46.50 USD) each, but it included the transportation, lunch and was 2+ hours with the whales! While I paid a little less, we would have been better off booking in town again and saved that horrible drive in the RV!
After lunch we restocked groceries, propane, and an ATM stop before moving on to our destination in Baja California (North). We had to pass through the military inspection stop and they did a pretty thorough inspection this time. He checked cabinets, refrigerator, drawers, and tapped on the ceilings to make sure they sound hollow. Apparently, people sometimes smuggle stuff in the ceilings of their RVs!
Heading north we passed lots of century plants and Tobey pulled over so I could take come pictures. The flowers are such a bright yellow in contrast to the everything else around that is so brown! 
There were also lots of these flowering ground plants. From a distance, all you can see is the red covering the ground, but when you get close, many of them have white flowers.
As the afternoon ticked by, the clouds got darker and darker and the rain began to fall. It was not fun, at all. The road also got narrower and narrower. As a matter of fact, north of Ejido Rosarito, a beer truck crossed into our lane and hit our driver’s side mirror. The mirror arm is there, as well as a few shards of mirror, so Tobey can still sort of see behind us.
We are hoping to find an inexpensive mirror we can duct tape on to get us by!
We turned off Highway 1 and headed 66 km east to the Bahia de Los Angeles. The rain stopped for a while and we were lucky to catch a rainbow.
While the road started off pretty good, it didn’t last. The rain started again and we had several patches of construction. Once we got to the town, there were several choices of places to camp. Following the advice of some other people we met, we drove all the way to La Gringa camping area (the furthest one north of town) over 8 miles of dirt/rock/washout road. They told us it had a sand beach and was really great, and the road wasn’t too bad – just a few areas to watch for.
It took us over an hour to negotiate the road and by the time we got here, the rain had started again. To top it off, from the RV it looks like the beach is really rocky! Whine, whine, whine. According to the camping book, it is supposed to be a free camping beach, but Daniel & his wife, Sylvia, who live next to the beach met us as we drove up and charged $100 pesos to camp. ($7USD).
The one good thing so far was we did see several dolphins swimming and jumping in the bay before we fixed dinner. Hopefully the rain will stop tomorrow and the dolphins will come back because neither of us is looking forward to the drive out of here!
GPS: 29.04069N, 113.54508W
RV CAMPING - BAJA CALIFORNIA
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