He who has
seen one cathedral ten times has seen something;
he who has seen ten cathedrals
once has seen but little;
and he who has spent half an hour in each
of a
hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
Sinclair Lewis
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| Cavorting Mobula Ray |
Enough stories, just a post with pictures of what we saw and a few of what we looked for but never found. Enjoy!
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| Hermit Crab in a Pink Throat Murex about 6" long - quite a large specimen |
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| Sunset for the birds |
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| Finally clear water |
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| Daily dolphin entertainment |
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| Find the lizard |
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| The beautiful beach of Mona. Nikki hiding from Mike in the rocks. |
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| Just have to check out that water |
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| Full moon over red rocks |
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| Full moon at sunset |
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| Large conch shell |
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| Coming out of its shell. Lower right corner is the eyeball at the end of a long arm They move by using their one claw-like-arm (at left of shell) as a pole vault |
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| Resting in the shade |
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| Nikki enjoying the evening shade |
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| A better way of cooling off |
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| Love these rocks and the sparse, mainly whitish, vegetation |
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| Two orcas in the Sea |
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| Never saw but their dorsal fins |
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| Vela (sail) rock. Guano covered detached rock off Isla Angel de la Guarda |
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| And the cavorting of mobulas continue |
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| Up and twist |
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| Ready for the white belly flop |
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| Duo dancing |
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| Winging it... |
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| But sometimes you have to fix things |
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| Painting name on shrimp boat. Check out that 'chair' made of rusty pipes and frayed ropes |
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| From a small resto in San Evaristo |
And now for what we have been unable to see in the wild. The famous boojum tree. It is only found naturally in three places in the Sea of Cortez area. On Isla de la Guarda at 4300+ feet (we did not climb that high when we visited), in the Three Virgins volcanic area near Santa Rosalia (we didn't go far enough or high enough even though we visited), or near the Seri Indian reservation on the mainland near Tiburon Island (an area we haven't visited yet).
They are often confused with the Adan tree (same fouqueria family) which grows just about everywhere in Baja and the mainland.
These giants have amazing shapes. The Seri Indians believe they are sacred and that some of them represent men, others women. The following three pictures come from some ethnobotany website...
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| Very interesting shapes |
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| They can grow REALLY tall - up to 60 feet |
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| Boojum and cardons |
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Cultivated boojum near Mona - there were quite a few there - - -
They are rather fat when cultivated
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