Bahia Concepcion

We had a somewhat sad experience today. We left San Ignacio about 9am and headed south, with the intent of arriving at Playa Santispac on Bahia Concepcion around noon, one of our favorite spots last winter where we stayed for a week. We’d heard that Hurricane Jimena, which hit Baja last month, had done some damage there so were expecting things to look different. We arrived and found there were NO other travelers staying there, all the palapas had been blown away, the beach had suffered a lot of erosion. We drove 10 miles further down the highway to Playa Requeson, another of our favorite spots from last year, and discovered the spectacular sand spit that connected the mainland to a nearby island, and on which RVers regularly camped, was completely gone! Again, the palapas had disappeared as well. We continued the length of Bahia Concepcion, which has about a dozen beautiful camping beaches and saw essentially no campers and lots of damage. Having planned to spend a week at Bahia Concepcion, we instead continued on to Loreto, another 75 miles south, and pulled in at a formal beachside campground that includes laundry and internet, even a pool , where we’re now sitting drinking a beer, catching up on email (we’ve not had internet since Monday), and posting to the blog. We’ll stay here perhaps 3 days so we can go to the wonderful Sunday Market. We remain happy and well!