San Ignacio to Bahia Concepcion

We stopped in Santa Rosalia on our way to Mulege to visit a French bakery and Iglesia Santa Barbara de Santa Rosalia. The church is a prefabricated galvanized iron-walled structure designed by French architect Alexandre Gustave Eiffel in 1884 and brought to Santa Rosalia to be assembled in 1897. It was originally a prototype for missionary churches to be built in the French equatorial colonies to withstand the effects of a tropical climate.

I was disappointed in the bakery - Panaderia El Boleo, though maybe we were just too late in the day to get authentic French bread and pastries. We did buy Mexican bread and pastries.

We never pass up the ice cream stores.

On the road to Mulege that afternoon, we saw a few bicyclists and wondered why they were crazy enough to ride bikes up and down the high desert mountains with temperatures in the 90's. Seems like you can't carry enough water on that long stretch to prevent dehydration.

Mulege would be the closest town for shopping and replenishing groceries, so we scouted it out on our way through. I was glad to see a store-front on the outskirts of town that sold reverse osmosis purified water. In addition to selling gallon jugs of water, they had a hose for refilling our own multi-gallon bottles and the fresh water tanks in our rigs.

We checked out all the beaches along Bahia Concepcion and decided on Playa Santispac. Well actually... I would have preferred Playa Escondida because it's more remote, but the other gals wanted Santispac for the availability of amenities. Hey - it's A-OK with me because it's all lovely.