The Big Sting

Friday January 27

Friday morning was beautiful at Santispac! Totally flat sea and no wind. I had a lovely paddle while Lorne got things ready to go. Unfortunately we are feeling compelled to moved along. We met some a delightful couple on the beach - Sandra and Richard Law and their cat Whisky from Osoyoos BC. Lovely people, hope we run into them again.

Didn’t travel far before a big wasp flew in my window, landing on my chair! I successfully dispatched him with our trusty electronic swatter and settled back to writing again when bang bang, I received two sharp stings on my inner thigh! Ouch! I applied sting stop right away and then applied this fabulous German ointment we got in Mexico last year. It went from a large and very sore red welt to two little red dots in short order, and stopped hurting entirely! Quite amazing. I kept applying this ointment the first day and a few times the second. It seemed to be gone so stopped and now (Sunday) it is a large puffy red welt again and hurts. Dang! I’m just so darn delicate.

So, my activity while driving on Friday was to build screens for our windows in the front. Kept me busy for quite some time. Duck tape is amazing stuff. Lorne tells me all kinds of things are made out of duck tape, including ball caps. He wants to make a bet with me about this… somehow I think this is just another of his factoids and I will lose, so I’m not taking him on.

We stopped in Loreto to meet a fellow GMCer that Lorne met on the internet, he and his wife have a house just south of Loreto, next to Loreto Bay developments (this is Butterfield’s project, a man from Victoria). We spent the night just south of Loreto at Porto Escondido at what looked to be a nice RV spot but turned out to be not so great. Driving out of Porto Escondido (its only a few miles off Mex. 1 and on a paved road) we drove over what looked like a tarantula – so of course we stopped, backed up and sure enough it was! It was the biggest dang spider I ever saw! Yuk. It just sat there! So I took some pictures of it – from the safety of the motor home of course. If we ever get to a place with any internet speed and we can upload pictures, I will add them.

Next day we came south to La Paz and stayed at Aquamarina RV Park in town. This is a lovely park on the beach where we have stayed the other times we have been in La Paz. It is operated by a very interesting elderly couple – Richard and May Lou, and is right on the water. They used to have a dock and a very large ship until various hurricanes wrecked them. There is a boat launch tho. Mary Lou grows orchids and their park is filled with beautiful flowering trees as well as palms. Hurricane John this past year did further damage to their trees and they lost half their orchid house. They are such interesting people, we would love to stay and learn more about them. They used to take people touring on their ship, including many oceanographers and biologists on their various ventures.

From La Paz it is just a short drive to Los Barriles and our beautiful Casa on the beach. Casa Metta is owned by our dear friend Ellen and her husband Chris whom we have yet to meet. It is a beautiful home and we are so fortunate to have use of it for the next month.