Baja Part 2: No Hike For You!

The plan was to find a nice trail or a sunny beach and go for a hike. Now … if you’ve followed this blog for long, you know that any post that starts with “the plan was” invariably leads somewhere else.

And so it was today.

Several trails that appeared on AllTrails and the like turned out to have been lost to development (which is everywhere here these days). And finding parking near a beach, even mid-day on a Thursday … es imposible.

We wound up driving over to San José (which will form a later part of the trip) and exploring the marina area to the east of the estuary. Lisa had stayed in this neighborhood on a past visit to Baja and wanted to see how things had changed. (A lot, it turns out.)

One thing that was new was this statue, named El Rey Pescador (The Fisher King), on the way into the newly-developed area:

El Rey Pescador, east of San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico

After several more attempts to find trails and beaches, we found a relatively quiet beach near Migriño, about 20 minutes north of Cabo. By then, though, it was windy and quite cloudy. That made for some fun ocean-scapes, but not the warm beach experience we were after. Ah well.

Waves crash onto a rock formation on a cloudy day. · Playa Pública Migriño, near Migriño, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Waves crash onto a rock formation on a cloudy day. · Playa Pública Migriño, near Migriño, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Waves crash onto a rock formation on a cloudy day. · Playa Pública Migriño, near Migriño, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Before watching this video, I suggest turning down the volume. (Someday I shall learn how to avoid wind noise!)

Better luck mañana?