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.
Walking mile 10.
End of the road for now.
Exhausted, dehydrated and out of beach to ride on.
Hasty camp.
Sandborne nap operations.
We decide to haul the heavy packs the last 5 miles on foot so that when we wake-up for the low-tide ride at 1am we can move quickly to the estuary in order to cross the two rivers before the tide creeps back in and floods them over our heads.
We run out of beach again on foot as the estuary mouth is 5 times larger than our satelitte imagery has indicated. Note the pile of sandals to the left, we are preparing to walk/wade/swim out across the river to determine depth.
We retreat from the estuary mouth, leaving a trail of 6" deep footprints in the quicksand-like shoreline.
Retro-grading 5 miles back to the bikes and mules and sentry SSgt Mauro. Due to the full moon, an excessively high tide floods the entire beach as waves lap right up to the base of the sand dunes.
So far yet so near. We gaze out upon the mountain point that we had intended to hit by midday, little did we know that it would take another 24 hours of hard work to make it there.
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