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Quast
1946
Journal
3
April 8 Punta San Felipe, 50+ ft., Baja California
alluvial fans between the playa and the
rock hills. Approximately 20 miles north
of here the road left the playa and led through
the alluvial fans for the rest of its journey.
Here we were surrounded by the desert association
of Palo Verde, Ocotillo, Creosote bush, some type
of Copal tree, small Cardons, and small
desert bushes. Five Citellus tereticaudus were
seen, four or five whip-tailed lizards and
one red-tailed hawk with what looked like
a snake in its beak. We were supplied
with road signs about every ten miles for
the last thirty miles of our trip. Two passen-
gers cars and four trucks were passed after
we entered the playa.
San Felipe is a town of about 100 houses
arranged in a rectangle around a dusty area
in the center about 100 yds square. A dozen
fishing boats (small) were anchored in the
harbor facing the south side of the Town. We
met two American sportsmen in a couple days
who had been disappointed in game fishing.
Some potatoes and Mexican sausage were pur-
chased to augment our provisions.
Our camp includes a neat shack that we
appropriated after being told by a few of
the inhabitants that no one had lived here for