JESimpson, 1938 39 504, Punta Penasca [Rocky Point], Sonora. March 31, 1938 Arrived here via Pozo de Cipriano, Sierra Blanca, and Pozo Papalote; 66 miles over sandy wastes; got stuck in sand several times and wished for the portable running-boards that the fish-trucks carry to get them thru the sand. The bay of the Gulf of California where the fish-boats put in is very beautiful: turquoise-blue water contrasting with the white sand and dark-red lava with white mountains beyond the bay. The fishermen and the truck drivers have erected shacks of the native rock and every manner of debris at the edge of the water. The fish is trucked over the desert to the Los Angeles (California) market. None of the officials of the fish enterprise were at the settlement; so permission to camp at the fish-village could not be obtained. We went around to the other side of the lava hills and camped in the sand near where Dr. Benson and Mr. Johnson had camped when here before—similarly we got the truck well caught in the sand and dug in deeply. We are camped just over the hill (75-ft. high) of lava from the water. The lava hill (or hills) is made up of large dark-red to red-brown rocks as surface with a few soft succulents growing in the more sheltered places. The wind blows strongly off the Gulf all day and most (2.) of the night. From the base of the steep in-land slope of the hills the sand-dunes, well covered with creosote, grass, sage-brush, and grass, ex- tend as far inland as you can see to the distant desert peaks. Set 50 mousetraps in the big rocks of the hill and