When Steve and I got together for the "last" time in 1995, we were traveling in his VW van along the Olympic Peninsula. He found this shovel on the beach and immediately kept it because he is a scrounger by nature. I have since made fun of him countless times about a man and his "shovel". That shovel has gone to Alaska and back with us as well as across the country to D.C. and other roadtrips over the years. Most of our friends know that when Steve hits a beach, out comes the shovel as he begins to dig gigantic ramps and mounds that turn into awesome castles with moats and barricks. Well today, "the shovel" got us out of a very very BAJA experience - getting out of the sand. Before we left for this trip, we read a lot of blogs about what emergency items you need to travel Baja. In our stash we have an extra 5 gallon water bottle, extra gas, a battery booster and inverter, oil, spark plugs and numerous other thingies that I don't know what they are. We also have the shovel. HAIL TO THE SHOVEL!
Yes, that is a dehydrated dolphin. We found three of them, one a baby. It looks like they got beached and someone dragged the bodies out into the desert. We're guessing they stunk. We took a spine piece and a jaw bone for Christmas presents:) They were really surreal to find where we did - so far from the ocean.
The last of the epic adventures today was our actual destination - the awesome ocean front hot springs of Puertocitos. It took us an hour to drive there and the veiw was absolutely fantastic. The hot springs were quite hot and the ocean was feet away. Apparently when the tide comes in, it somewhat cools them off but we had giant swells today and I wasn't digging the waves near the kids in the water. We stayed until it got too close and headed home. We finished the day off with naps for all three boys.
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Awww... they look so cute when they're all asleep!
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