Let's start about forty years ago. Surfers search out finer vistas, smoother waves and spicier foods and decide to check out Mexico! Somebody heard about a point break where waves can peel for minute- maybe a minute and half. No one remembers who that "somebody" was though, maybe because no one wants another log jam. No... These dudes were looking for unspoiled beauty. Isolated roads? and barren stretches of coastline awaited them. Did anyone know the way there? Just head South was the call. Fortune finds its own way into the natural plan of things. Baja being a place, where good as well as bad comes to those who seek it- or need it- respectively. In Baja, the rhythms, ebb and flow, desert aroma and chill of sea occupy the senses and slows time into human proportion.

Las Olas
The words roll off one's teeth like liquid silver. Real surfers know the feeling of dropping into a wave found far down the peninsula. The taste of afternoon barbecued fish still flavoring the whole experience. Some of your more laid back friends lift a cerveza and point as this wave sparkles in the afternoon sun. Others too laid back to make it to the cantina just relax in camp. Taking in the scene, listening to Hawaiian slack key guitar, maybe sip a cool beverage all at the same time. You can't capture it in a picture - can anyone?

Estero 1966. Al, Patrick and Steve soak up some sunshine and cooling beverage. Ahh! This is great. Surf morning, noon and evening. Eat, drink, surf and be merry. We would wrap up our levis, T-shirts and converse tenny shoes or topsiders inside a tanker jacket or pendleton, tie it around our necks and paddle across the Estero channel at night. The stingrays and bat rays wing motions would flouresce on the bay floor and would provide a cool show en route. We would shoot pool and talk to the girls who were there camping with the folks.

Baja Trip '99
Midday Offshores And Big Al, R.L. and the boys

Score some fun days on a Baja trip in summer '99 and score some great waves. Read about the road in before you go heading south.