Travel: Mexico - Baja California Norte

My first post in a while. I have some catching up to do.

Here are some photos from a recent camping trip to Mexico.

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Removing calf's brains for sesas tacos.

Fire-grilled chiles

A taco gets handed over a bed of cebollas - fire-grilled green onions.

Deep-fried lobster in Puerto Nuevo

Strolling musicians in Puerto Nuevo

Sweets in a dulceria - candy store

Packaged dulces

Dulces

Dulces

Roasting nuts and then tossing them in sugar

Colorful Mexican wrestling masks. Lucha Libre!

Guitarrista

Musicians, Puerto Nuevo

Fish taco sign near El Rosario

Strange and alien-like cirio trees in the Cataviña Desert

Closeup of cirio trunk

Wild burros off the side of the road. They are descended from the burros that the Conquisadors brought over.

An octopus fisherman returns with the day's catch, Bahía de Los Angeles, Sea of Cortéz.

Sunset at the Sea of Cortéz. Isla Angel de la Guardía is in the background.

Whale skull on the beach at Bahía de Los Angeles.

Whale skull detail

Kayaks at sunrise, Sea of Cortéz, with Isla Angel de la Guardía in the background.

Fish tacos

Cowboy (gaucho)

Two girls near the US border at Tecate. They followed us in the store and watched us curiously. They let me take their pictures and they found much amusement in viewing them on the LCD screen on my 10D.

That's a rainbow painted on her forehead.

We bought some fresh tamales from this man before we crossed the border.

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All photos are ©2006 Kathryn Hill Photography.