Long Weekend at San Miguel

[YakHanded]

Took off early Friday morning with my roommate and buddy Lorenzo to camp at San Miguel just north of Ensenada for the long weekend. We had wanted to do something like this for a long time and finally coordinated taking a day off last Friday.

Breezed through the border and down to K58 in no time at all. The road closure is just south of there and they force you inland off of the 1 onto a slightly sketch two lane highway that reminded me of Ortega, but before we took that we wanted to see how close we could get to Salsipuedes Bay and those tuna Pens before they actually closed the roads ("non-through" traffic could keep going to get to Bajamar and all that). Anyways, they close it off completely right at the Salsipuedes headland, but you get an epic view of the bay from this overpass where you turn around, we saw the pens getting shuttled around which was cool. Headed back north to that inland highway that takes you around the closure but they were also working on that road so after a few delays we were through to San Miguel and got set up.

The campsite is $12USD a night and right on the beach - we got a great spot and were the only ones there until Saturday around noon. It's also got a really fun point break so we spent way more time surfing/drinking than fishing, the wind being insane Friday/Saturday didn't help the fishing vs surfing argument either. Lots of Americans passing through to surf or camp for a night, met some cool people and the locals were super welcoming too. Got out on the kayak most of the day Sunday though when the wind mellowed out and caught a nice Yellow on a flylined greenback in ~120ft, no scale, no tape, no problems, super pumped and when I landed at the beach there were tons of locals around making me feel like a legend. We made a bunch of ceviche and probably had a beer with pretty much everyone on the beach. Made it home yesterday with the yellow kept well on ice and a nice addition to the freezer. Great time, I recommend it and i will be back!