It is about a nine hour drive from the border to Bahia de Los Angeles.  About a third of the trip is along the fertile coastal plain with farms, vineyard and tourism industries.  Then you go inland and about a third of the trip is through what can only be described as a Cactus Forest.  It was remarkable.

There were lots of cacti that looked like Saguaros

and some that looked like telephone poles with paint brushes on top.

Nurit tells me that they are Boojum Trees.

and some that looked like large but scrawny Jade Plants

Did I mention the very large Saguaros?

The other third of the trip was through very dry scrubby desert like the California desert on the way to Las Vegas.  The Cactus Forest alone made the trip worthwhile.  But we also had great diving with Ricardo, the town of Bahia de Los Angeles,  swimming with the Whale Sharks and the military check points.  And I should also mention driving with Howard for twenty hours and all of the great, nonlinear ideas we had.

See the Bahia de Los Angeles trip album on Flickr.

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