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Journal
Sonora, Mexico
April 21
Passed the border without even having a bag opened
and headed south at 4:30 P.M. There are customs
stations at the south edge of Nogales, 12 mi. south
of Nogales and at Brown, 40 mi. south of Nogales.
Only auto and tourist permits were checked at these
stations, though at the last one, the man showed some
interest in a package of .38 cal. shot shells he noticed
in the glove compartment.
We drove 119 miles after dark, some of it over the same
stretch twice when we went back for gasoline, and didn't
see a single snake on the road. The air temperature where we
started at Puerto Lopejo (17 mi. S Casa Blanca) was 21.6°C
at 8:15 P.M., and at our camp a few miles past
Hermosillo at midnight was 20.8°C. There are no more,
April 25
Drove to Guaymas in the morning and then back to
Bahia San Carlos. The road to San Carlos Bay is
about four miles from the Misioner junction (toward
Hermosillo) and has been built up into a virtual
superhighway. Progress has begun to discover Bahia San
Carlos – there is rumor that a resort hotel is in the
offing.
Tonight's camp is on the narrow neck of land
connecting separating Ensenada de los Tatos and
Bahia San Carlos. This neck of land is composed
largely of water-worn stones 6" to a foot in diameter.
It has the appearance of a beach deposit. We thought
was the only liquid seen here, but was abundant.
The terrain about here is most rocky. Hillsides
as littered with angular chunks of volcanic rock; there are
numerous jagged outcrops. Two Phyllodactylus homo-
lophurus were found running across an outcrop after