Monday, March 17, 2014

Oasis Primera Aguas Going Up River--March 2014

I was recently made aware that to access the hikes I have shown on my blog and described in the Hiking Loreto guide book, requires permission from the ranch owners of the land.  


You can contact the president of Loreto Guide Association, Rodolfo Palacios Castro, for a guide to take you on these hikes because they have permission from the owners and are aware of the need to protect these fragile places.  His Facebook site is:  


Currently, the owner of the Las Parras Ranch along the road to San Javier Church sells passes to their property at the Pescador Grocery Store or Hacienda Suites.  As time goes by, there may be more owners who do this.


The city of Loreto had built this swimming pool for the locals to enjoy, but successive hurricanes and tropical storms washed away this beautiful retreat. All that was left were some walls painted blue, the entrance building, and a changing room.



John and Werner are standing by the entrance building that has been ravaged by the frequent hurricanes and tropical storms.


Once we got to the swimming pool, we decided to head north along the creek.

Here is all that is left of the swimming pool. Blue paint defines where the pool was and there are pipes that run down to this pool. We continued up the creek which crossed lots of bedrock with occasional exits to rancheros.



This year we have lots of water continuing to flow down to the Sea of Cortez.


Check out this tree just hanging at the top of this mound. It is hard to believe that these trees can endure in this harsh climate.


Bedrock keeps this creek flowing down toward the Sea of Cortez.

As we keep hiking up about two miles from the swimming pool, we continue to be amazed by the amount of flow we see in this creek.



You can look to the side of the canyon to see where the high water mark was, but here in the center of the creek, you can see where the water has blasted out the palm trees. It is amazing to see the power of the water here.


Here we have John and Werner making their way back to the pool area and the stairs back to where we parked our car after a five-mile hike.

We stopped at Del Borachos for a lunch of burgers and ice-cold dark beer. How refreshing!

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