I really appreciate all of the comments and help on my Utah trip so I thought I'd see if anyone had some suggestions for this trip.

The loose plan will be to head to rocky point (actually just west of town and camp on the beach Tuesday night.
Wed- head through el gulfo and try to make it to San Felipe.
Thurs- Go from san felipe through mike sky ranch to the pacific side.
Find a nice beach south of santo tomas and fish, surf, dive, sleep, drink.
Fri- repeat,
Sat- repeat-
Sun- drive like hell home.

What do you think. Where should I go or not go?

My knowledge of baja is basically anywhere the 500 or baja 1000 has gone in the last 6 years.

 

Can you get from rocky pt to San Felipe? Where do you cross the colorado?

A buddy of mine told me it was not possible by dirt roads, but that was 8 or so years ago. I think you have to go all the way back up to the highway 2.

Puerto citos about 30 mi south of San Felipe was pretty cool, there is a hot spring there. Also a cool little cove with the cabanas you can sit under and drink beer!

 

I also do not think it possible to off road between PP and SF. have to take the hiway.

The roads up to and around Mike's are gonna be all buggered up only 1 month after the 500.

I assume that when you head for the pacific from mikes you will take the road that lets out at San Telmo(marked as an access road for the upcoming race). From there you should head right out to the coast and probly work your way north up the coast. you could follow old race courses all the way out to santo tomas. Just so you know the water in that area is in the mid 50*'s year round:eek:

i would join you for some of it but unfortunatly I willl allready be in BCS settling in for a 2 month stay
Mike

 

I've gone from RP to Gulfo and the taken a dirt road to San Felipe. We had to go almost all the way up to the highway though. I may just cross at tecate and avoid the out of the way run.
Puertacitos is cool. I sat there in my truck for about 10 hours waiting for the little donahoe tacoma during its first race.
Good suggestion. I may have to hit it up!

 

Yah, the race course roads WILL suck. I have run those roads so many times that I know a bunch of alternate roads that the race doesn't run on. Instead of the access road, (that was actually the course several years ago I was driving it we almost flipped off the cliff, just a little ), I'm going to take a back way that passes through some old ranches and crosses the course a couple of times.

I'm used to the water temp and of course my wetsuit will be with me!!
I was actually going to take the course through tomas on the way home. I wanted to head somewhere I HAVEN'T been during my couple days of chillin.

What is south of the course section. Any good bays, tide pools, waves, ship wrecks??

 

how far south? there is cuatro casas and shipwrecks. then there are some pretty cool deserted bays between camalu and san quintin that take some exploring to get too.

If you take a left turn on your way out to santo tomas you will go over to punta san jose, from there you can drive around right on the cliff over to puerto santo tomas and the coast is really neat over there. great fishing hole up the hill from the fishing village. its also kinda cool as you are just around the point from la bufadora and the only way to get there would be to ride a mountain goat!

Mike

 

I love that area. The whole area from rosarito down to san quintin is familiar to me. I've stayed down at the old mill a couple of times. We used to go down and camp on surf trips, not the san quintin area, that area I know from racing. (I was born and raised in Dana Point till college)

La bufadora is hilarious. Not worth the walk in my opinion, but neat. I remember them wanting you to pay to out at the bathrooms at the bufa!

Whats a little further south than san quintin?

 

south of san quintin is a kinda notoriously sketchy area, El Socorro, i really do not recomend visiting. Defiantly do not go to the beach around El Rosario I beleive its called punta baja and it is full of trash and theives.

there is a really nice point called punta san carlos, the trun off is 13 k past the el rosario bridge if i'm correct and there is great surfing and fishing there, its actually afamous windsurfing spot, I've even had a whale surface 20 feet from me in the lineup!

Mike