A Tale of Trips South of the Border - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

greenscales · 11-29-2009, 01:56 PM

Regarding camping on the side of the road down by PST, this is an agricultural and ranching/fishing community. The biggest danger that far away from the highway is wildlife or a pissed off bull. I had actually looked for a place near China point to camp, but there was more industrial/agricultural activity down there and I didn't feel comfortable trying to camp there. I would not even consider doing this anywear near a major road. I should have stopped at La Bufadora on the way down instead, that camp is accessible 24 hours. If you stay out of the area and under the radar of the drug runner's, you are fine down there. There is a also a very alert federale checkpoint on the highway right before the Puerto Santo Thoms turn-off. That was the problem 6 years ago, they were the ones who ripped you off. Now they may be a pain in the butt going through everything in the car, however they are legit and do actually make it safer South of Ensenada. The scariest part of the trip was trying to navigate through downtown Ensenada at evening rush hour after my GPS gave me wrong directions. There seems to be some confusion about how to use stop signs down there.

I don't know what happened to the photos in the original post, so here they are again:

11-29-2009, 01:56 PM	#5
greenscales greenscales Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Monrovia Posts: 116	If you use your brains, Mexico is safe Regarding camping on the side of the road down by PST, this is an agricultural and ranching/fishing community. The biggest danger that far away from the highway is wildlife or a pissed off bull. I had actually looked for a place near China point to camp, but there was more industrial/agricultural activity down there and I didn't feel comfortable trying to camp there. I would not even consider doing this anywear near a major road. I should have stopped at La Bufadora on the way down instead, that camp is accessible 24 hours. If you stay out of the area and under the radar of the drug runner's, you are fine down there. There is a also a very alert federale checkpoint on the highway right before the Puerto Santo Thoms turn-off. That was the problem 6 years ago, they were the ones who ripped you off. Now they may be a pain in the butt going through everything in the car, however they are legit and do actually make it safer South of Ensenada. The scariest part of the trip was trying to navigate through downtown Ensenada at evening rush hour after my GPS gave me wrong directions. There seems to be some confusion about how to use stop signs down there. I don't know what happened to the photos in the original post, so here they are again: Attached Images Last edited by greenscales; 11-30-2009 at 07:31 AM. Reason: Adding pics that were dropped in original post