Murray 1948 117 Journal June 16th Wend Plano de Hirey, 50+ ft., Baja Calif. After getting supplies in La Paz, we started our journey back. Had some delay near Punta Conejo where a car was stuck coming down in the heavy sand, but with care were able to get through it ourselves without trouble. Made camp at the western end of the Plano de Hirey. This plain is entirely bare except for a short covering of dried grass and weeds. There are a few scattered low sand dunes, one of which we are camped beside. This has a thin growth of mostly cholla, with cardons, ocotillo and pitahaya. The sand has a wind packed surface soft enough on top to show innumerable mouse and rat tracks. We are at the edge of where the weed covered, silty and much cracked part of the plain ends and a sand blown, still less vegetated band begins and probably extends to the end of the plain to our west. Set out 50 live traps, placing 20 on the dune beside up and the rest on another similar one not far away. On the sandy flat between them saw many kangaroo rat holes and set 7 rat traps near some of them. There is a bright half moon shining. At 9:15 PM looked at the first 20 traps and had nothing.