Spending time on the Pacific Coast

The weather here has finally gotten hot. Well, relatively hot. It usually starts out around 88 degrees and peaks out around 95-97 degrees. The humidity is around 30% which makes it feel a bit hotter. So recently we had a great opportunity to spend some time on the "cooler" Pacific side of the Baja. Another marshal that we work with at Cabo del Sol, asked us to house sit and dog sit for him while he took a trip to Seattle. His house is located 50 miles north of Cabo heading toward Todos Santos on the Pacific Ocean.This area tends to be 5-10 degrees cooler. It was a nice change.

I've included some photos of this amazing place. It sits right on the ocean. The mornings and evenings were fantastic. Because we are so far out of Cabo the stars were really bright. I walked the beach most mornings with Sofia. She was my constant companion. I couldn't go anywhere without her right at my side. What a sweet girl. The other dog is 14 and does her best but she has a hard time getting around. However, when it's time to eat, she's right there!

Sofia the constant companion

Ruby taking it easy in one of the bedrooms

Originally it was built to be a gourmet cooking school. The wonderful plants that would be part of the fresh cuisine did not do well in the salt sea air. That's not to say that there isn't organic produce near by. In fact Todos Santos has a lot of great local farms. It has a natural water spring that creates a great place to grow produce. Anyway, it was a fun week. The down side was having to drive back to Cabo to do our marshaling duties.

Just one beautiful sunset on the Pacific

The back courtyard

Dining and Living Room

Porch that overlooks the ocean

Sunset viewing and sitting area

More of the courtyard

The view of the Pacific

The gourmet kitchen

One of the 6 bedroom suites

Another thing that happened during this week was the water tank for our rental house, called a pila, started to leak. We had to turn off the water, drain the whole tank, fix the leak with a special concrete, and then fill it back up. This took about 5 days. Fortunately we had a place to stay during this fix. Everything went well until we turned the water back on. To our surprise there wasn't any water. Apparently, the water company periodically turns off the water to a subdivision as their way of conserving water. It is not noticed when you have a full pila tank but when the tank is empty it becomes a big problem. Warren had to order a truckload of water to fill up the 3000 gallon tank. On Monday or Tuesday the water was turned back on and all is well again. Welcome to Mexico!