Felipe to Puertecitos Jan 8

 Puertecitos is a small off the grid community along the coast that is known

 for the best hot springs in Baja.

Coastline as we drove to Puertecitos

Some of highway 5 is very narrow, you cannot go over the white line on the right at any time. On this stretch of road there is a drain but most of the time it is a drop off with zero tolerance. When meeting the big trucks you make sure your right tires are on top of that white line , the truck does the same and all is good. Less than a foot between the mirrors. The road conditions are really good and the speed limit is usually 60 or 80 kilometers  per hour, after driving in the US in  70 and 75 miles per hour limits (120 klm per hour) this is very relaxing

Hair pin turns , some times with a 30 klm speed limit for the turn

The bay where we camped

It was very wind the family next to us flying a kite

The hot springs by the sea.

The rocks are full of holes and crevices that fill with the warm water. 

 This is the hottest pool , you can see the steam coming of it and the air is  25 degrees. It is too hot to even dip your toe into. The water rises from deep in the earth and comes to the surface through the cracks in the rock with the hottest  pools being the farthest from the sea.  When the tide comes in it fills all of the crevices and pools between the rocks. As the hot water flows to the lower pools closer to the sea the hot water gets cooler.

You move from one pool to the next until you find one that has a temperature that you are comfortable with, or you can go into a very hot one and then cool off in another one. 

This family had arrived in 3 vehicles from San Felipe over an hour away. The grandparents were making tacos with shrimp and vegetables and bringing them down to the pools for the family. While we were in the pool they asked us we  would like a plate, when I offered to pay for it they flat out refused to take any money. They just said, you are our friend.  The world is full of kind and beautiful people.

Brandon and Jasmine are an electrician and  a nurse from California. They sold their house and all of there belongings and committed themselves to a simple life style, and have been living full time on the road for the last 6 months. They have enough money to live for at least a year and then the plan is to work  about one month out of six to fund their travels for the foreseeable future. We sat around the camp fire with them in the evening so when he came back with a nice sea bass the next morning they gave us a meal

This whale skeleton was on the beach about a mike from our campsite

A view of the village from across the bay as we walked to the skeleton.