Quast 1948 Journal 2 April 8 Punta San Felipe, 50+ ft, Baja California fresh water is at the town of San Felipe. The drive here from our camp on the Cocopah mts. varied greatly in road quality. A new road is being built from Mexicali to San Felipe. At our time of travelling the fills were completed with surfacing and bridge building yet to be done up to a distance of 20 miles south of El Mayor. At a point where the playa meets some black slate hills sand dunes blocked our progress and we had to drive via car "trails" over the playa for all but the last of the trip. The low International truck had a little difficulty navigating over the high centers but otherwise the drive was not difficult. Because of the mud surface of the network of playa roads it would be suicide to venture on to them after wet weather. Our sole point of ref- erence while driving over the playa were the completely arid rocky hills to our right and the beginnings of a telephone line running to San Felipe over the plays. The only signs of life on the playa were dog or coyote tracks and beer and tequila bottles spaced at about fifty foot intervals where they had been thrown out of vehicles by thirsty travellers. Creosote and ocotillo were visible growing in the