We spent over two weeks at Playa Santispak and are sad to leave the beach today, but we got in one last kayak trip before packing up. The wind was picking up early, so we headed back behind the beach to a mangrove lagoon. It was very cool (and well protected) and we saw lots of beautiful herons, including Yellow Crowned Night Herons, Great Blue Herons and Little Blue Herons. We noticed at one point that the water was steaming, and when we felt the water it was steaming hot (literally)! There is a natural hot spring flowing in to the lagoon.

We checked into the RV Park at Hotel Serenidad (in Mulege) and then took a cab in to town to do laundry, buy groceries and have one last lunch at our favorite little restaurant, Dany's. We will miss this place, too.

We think this area is the "sweet spot" of Baja. We started feeling right at home in this community. While plenty of tourists pass through (mainly in RV's) and there is a pretty sizeable group of Americans who live here half of the year, the town isn't defined by tourism. It still feels like a small Mexican town. The area is very "tranquilo", people are friendly and lively, and it was a great place to call our home base for the last month.

We met up with our new wagon masters (Larry and Janet) and some of the folks from the caravan. They seem to be having a great time together and should be fun travel partners.