Five operators execute a deep amphibious strike into Baja's most remote coastline. Enduring long-distance movements across bays, sand dunes, endless beaches and rocky coastlines, the team arrives intact and conducts heavy amphibious operations on the target site for several days before being extracted by locally contracted fisherman.
Safely across two river crossing, we crash out at 4AM in order to execute the final assualt on the point at sunrise. The moon sets in the background ending our strenuous 3 hour night movement.
We wake-up to clean offshore lines, the inner bay beachbreak is firing at 4-6' but we want the point and will not stop at anything short of it at this point of the insertion phase of our mission - no rest for the wicked!
Captain Setian and myself lead the initial target site recon. As we march up the coastline each cove appears better than the last.
Still a mile away, Captain Setian gets eyes-on the target site.
Thar she blows. Heavy offshore 8' sets pound the reef, our heart rates top out, a strong surge of energy flows through our bodies as we realize the grueling 48 hour patrol out here will all be worth it in due time.
Instead of camping on the wind swept mesa on the point we decide to set-up our patrol base in an abandoned drug runners camp on the inner bay, a bastion of protection with forever views into the estuary and out into the bay.
Not only do we have our own shelter with a concrete deck 20' above the water, there is a 4-6' ft beachbreak firing right out front. We decide to get some of the sand off our skin with a warm-up session at the beachbreak before moving-out for the two-mile haul to the point.
As we head out from the abandoned shack, we walk past the firing beach break.
The dust and heat of the two mile walk to the point goes unnoticed as visions of 8' sugar plums dance in our heads.
On-the-move, we cover the two miles quickly and quietly.
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