Hello again from Bahia Agua Verde. Nelda and I decided that we just wanted to spend a day in town today. After a breakfast of fried eggs and Spam it was time to blow up the beast. We keep our dingy deflated in a cloth case on the bow of Diamond Girl. We inflate it at each stop we make. I say it is the beast because early on in the trip it was a real battle to get it in the water. Now we have it down to the point it takes about 10 minutes. We took the dingy to the shore with all the pangas, this is not the beach with the town. First we followed a goat trail, it is actually a goat trail, a friend of mine in California could confirm we were following goat turds if he were here and they well everywhere, the turds that is. Well these were mountain goats as they went strait up the hills. The view was gorgeous, you could see twenty miles in 3 directions. It was especially nice as the air was clean due to the rain last night. You don't think about it much but with so little rain and so little vegitation the Baja is a very dusty place. It is so dusty that the fishermen put old T shirts over thier outboard engines. For those mechanical geeks out there why would they do this? Back to the goats; after about and hour of climbing we find two goats near the top of one of the hills. But we also found a beautiful panorama of a large river delta surrounded by the stark hills. There is a river that flows through this area occati onally and and from the looks of it it spreads out and flows over about two miles of land before entering the sea. This delta has all sorts of thorny tree growing on it. The trees are still eatten up as high as the goats and the wild cattle can reach so they look like giant green mushrooms. They are green because of the last two rains that we have had here. Infact there are seedlings coming up everywhere. After the rock climb we walked down into the delta to a very small cemetary. It is surounded by stacked rock walls and had maybe 20 graves. It was hard to tell as some were just bumps in the ground. Most had artificail flowers on them. The dates on the few stones ranges from 1937 to 1963. We then walked about 20 miles into town, well it seemed like 20 miles, it was probable more like 3. You have to remember we are boat people now and we have almost lost the use of our leggs as we use our butts most of the day. Well our backs when we are sleeping. When you say town or village you have to use your imagination. It is a colletion of maybe 10 homes or small single room buildings. The yards around these homes are all dirt but it is clean dirt. It looks like it has been broomed and is quite unusual. Most homes have beautiful flowereing bushes. We found one business, a local teinda (a grocery store about the size of your living room), a school, and a chuch. At the teinda Nelda bought some potatos, Idaho of course, a few canned goods and some avacodos that she whipped into lunch when we got back on the boat. It was strange walking around mud puddles on the main road but again it rained last night. One last thing on the homes, The Mexican goverment as set up every home with running water and a solar panel and battery. And there are sattalite dishes. When I say one room I mean the water splits in the yard on one black pipe goes into the house and the other to the outhouse. Well I wasn't really looking forward to the 30 mile walk back to the boat, or was it 40? It might as well been 50 as there was no way I was going to make it. The hundred or so buzzards circleing overhead were going to get a big diner tonight. Nelda came to the rescue, telling me she saw fishermen walking along the rocky, bolder strewn, algae coated coastline before I got up this morning. (Just for the record, I got up early to take a picture of the sunrise and took an early nap.) The only reason I agreed to let her take me this way was I was watching the buzzards and they seemed to be afraid of the water. Amazingly, the person that got us lost in La Paz, twice, cut 39.5 miles off our trip back to the boat! The photos is of me and Diamond Girl in the background on our .5 mile trip back. It was quite a day. So why do the panga drivers put T shirts on their engines, outboard engines don't have air filters as usually the air ovr water is very clean. Not here as there is so much d ust that normally blows off the land. The shirts are the air filter. Special recognition for this extended report goes to the person that gave us a Bon Voyoge song collection of 70 of the most enjoyable amd memorable songs out there. Wait thats not all! Included in this set are albums by Steely Dan, Paul Mc Cartney and Wings, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Eagles!! But that not all the set includes The Loven Spoonful, Dire Straights, Hewy Lewis and the News and a special CD of The Flip Side. This is a little know and under recognized cult band that can usually be found playing small establishments in the Boise area. The band is built around the bass guitar player you will recognize from the his previous band "The Lifters" But thats not all!! Jim Gaffigan is in the collection as well. That's all.