Auto Log - Matomi
Mileage - general direction: east
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El Rosario, Baja,
Calif. Fork right Aguajito Mine Sauzalito Sign Sauzalito Mine Arroyo with water Fork right Fork right (indistinct) Road disappeared in sandy wash Adobe ruins (1761) Mission Station San Juan de Dios Fork left (faint) Fork Left Low Pass 2100 ft Cowcamp |
Glimpses of Matomi Peak on the left Hears via CB that Jack Baldwin is having clutch trouble. Bob goes back and fixes it. 40 minutes spent finding road on other side of the wash, and rebuilding the bank there. Water and coco palms Ocotillo, chamise, senita, lizards, squirrels, coyote, Indian trail A spring and grove of blue palms |
A special treat was fresh lobster while camping at Punta Baja, 15 miles SW of El Rosano. At a camp of lobster fishermen, we asked if we could buy some. They asked, "How many?" Pauline Holden and I, who had been delegated to do the bargaining said, in our barely adequate Spanish, We'd like to see them first. From the way they looked at us and at each other, we surmised that our request was somewhat out of line. They asked again, "Cuanto quiere?" and we repeated, "queremos a ver". One of the men took us by the arm, walked us to the beach, put us in a boat and motored us out into the Pacific. We thought we were being shanghaied.
Soon there appeared on the surface a float and the fisherman pulled up a huge create of live lobsters, 560 of them, and said to take our pick. We asked, "how much?" and he said $1 a piece". We picked out 18 big ones for our crowd of seven.
