Village Scenes

We went for a ride to explore the Roca Roja (Red Rock) region.. There's an opening in the fence behind Kino Nuevo that follows a rutted dirt trail. Back, up, back, up. Amazing "finds". There's a crumbled adobe ruin with chimney.

 

The road terminates in a turn-around at the end of a valley. Towering red hills surround you, dizzying to look up. Ron loaded up some big rocks for landscaping borders at the casita, I wandered around looking at the rocks. Quartz veins, crystals, obsidian. 

 

 

The last shot is the view back down the dirt road all the way to the Sea of Cortez. The ocotillo are blooming, flaming red-orange flower spikes at the tips of the branches.

Then we went to the village, and this had sprung up overnight.

Apparently there's to be a circus this week!

I also finally got some pictures of Boojum trees. The Seri Indians north of us believe Boojums are the giants that their ancestors were turned into. Interestingly, the shorter stocky ones are the females, and the tall thin ones are the males... They are very wary of the Boojums, as they believe if you "bother" them, they will call up storms with high winds. Boojums are more plentiful on the Baja Peninsula, and there's a few groves of them between the Seri villages of Punta Chueca and Desemboque. There are only three Boojums in Kino, but I haven't found the third one that's said to be in a private courtyard. Here's one growing naturally in a vacant lot just across from the beach in New Kino.

And a close-up of the leaves and thorns:

The other Boojum is a transplant on the grounds of the Maricultura  (Oyster Farm) just before the "shortcut" to our road. When the guard saw me trying to take a photo through the chain-link fence, he motioned me to come on in to get it!

 

We're used to seeing a variety of entrepreneurs selling from hand carts, bicycle carts, or pulling small trailers equipped to produce a feast, but I'd never seen a mobile Sushi cart before. Sushi and More!

 And Saturday night was the Luau at the Club Deportivo. We had about 16 from "the park" and "the hill" taking three of the 40 tables. They served roast pig and it was terrific!

Harold, Maggie, me, Ron, Michelle

Joan, Chuck, Kay, Sal, Kim, Jill

Allie,  Suzanne, Les Norm, Danielle, Pat

(And the only shot of Morris at the table in the rear, center.)

Ginger, Harold, Maggie, Ron

Ron, Michelle, Darrell, Doug, Harold, Maggie

Norm, Danielle, Bill, Pat, Suzanne, Les

 Al. His bride Sal wouldn't stay put for a photo.


















Ron left early today to go out on a really big boat in the Deportivo Fishing Derby. They said they'd be back tonight, but will go out again tomorrow and probably stay out a day or three. He's over the moon to have hooked up with Frank and Bob at the Luau, and looking forward to some tuna.

My third rug is still outside drying.