We got a late start this Christmas, not arriving down at the campo until Tuesday, December 27th. The rains in San Diego started in October this year and continued unabated into 2005. The time we spent in Baja this Christmas turned out to be the wettest trip since I started coming down here in 1990. Consequently, we did less fishing, more loafing, and took mostly photos of the rain. The rain this Christmas was the real stuff too, not the scattered drops or drizzle that we usually get.

Tuesday, the first front blew in and rain fell all day, sometimes rather heavily. The front loomed just east of the Sierras.

In this shot, Isla San Luis is barely visible.

Later, the sun peeked through the clouds over the Sierras to the west.

The scattered showers made for a rainbow over Isla Cholludo.

The pot of gold was on Cholludo Reef.

The campo soaked it all up in this panorama. As usual with panoramas, I've proportionately reduced them down to 680 pixels wide, to accommodate webpage viewing in their entirety. To view them full-sized at 510 pixels high, click on the panorama. JavaScript will open a new scrollable window. When you're done viewing, just close the image window and the original page will reappear from the background without any need to reload.

A full rainbow arched over Isla San Luis in this panorama.

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