BAHIA CONCEPCION is one of the most famous cruising place in Baja...this is also with SANTO DOMINGO anchorage the end of our real cruising in Baja this year.  Covid pushed us in 2020 to rush north and to forget to enter in this huge bay with calm waters, numerous anchorages and golden beaches; this week is"la semana santa" a favorite mexican holiday; even if covid change things: some restaurants disappear,  only a few cruisres around and quasi deserted SANTISPAC parking, a few noisy campers, noria of tourist pangas and excited jet skis move the place in a kind of circus. What a contrast with our precedent stops ! The transpeninsular follows a big part of BAHIA CONCEPCION east coast. Even anchored away from these beaches, you can hear night and day the roaring truck brakes... We anchor here to pay a visit to MULEGE and choice to spend our other nights in AMOLARES and

SANTO DOMINGO on the isolated west side: a different feeling about this natural wonder.

Eastern Holiday: playa SANTA INES- CHIVATO: first cruisers at anchor: climate change !

The nicely built hotel is another victim of the covid !

...these deserted jewel mansions too...

...in such a fantastic place...

...this happy camper use this beach for himself !

...we don't see another american around...

...and we are eastern saturday...

Back to the cat, a good surprise wait for us...

...2 dozens of dolphins make the show...

...fishing... or playing as some choice to follow ALCYONE...

...No more heater in the morning, code O sailing; we change place and climate...

From SANTISPAC to COYOTE anchorage, same circus...

...early morning paddle is a way to escape...

COYOTE and CONCEPCION beaches...

are protected by very shallow waters...

...giving pangas access only at high tide...

SANTISPAC:We leave the dinghy to this family

...the parking behind is empty. imagine if its full...

...and we get a ride to MULEGE oasis...

...Some changes 40 years later...the oasis still there but many constructions  around...

The Mision, built with volcanic stones is closed...

...but still ffer a good point of view...

...giving the real value of water..

a short walk later we are in tiny "downtown"...

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...for a delicious meal in colonial charm of LOS EQUIPALES...

and happy Victor (31 children?) drive us back to the beach

...we want to overnight on the much wilder west side of CONCEPCION...

This is AMOLARES anchorage...

... no camping, no music, no jetski, no panga...

AMOLARES anchorage at sunset...

...and next morning: with wind n mist...

...the boat is really soaked ! this phenomenon bring a lot of moisture to the desert...

...we got that a big part of the morning...

...a few tacks later, ALCYONE anchor in gorgeous PUNTA SANTO DOMINGO

in foreground, a dangerous chola: a sole killer

triggerfish...delicious...

...now it's time to leave BAJA...waiting a northern...

...to reach PUERTO VALLARTA and sail to GAMBIER...

Shallow anchorage of SANTO DOMINGO: THE SEA OF CORTES !