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I borrowed from:
http://sancarlosmx.mywowbb.com/forum1/
It's a pretty good advice and insight and I though it might be useful to some on this forum.
I've boat camped and tented it all over the place around san Carlos and on the Baja. I've even anchored the boat and then cmaped on the beach in some very great places just for a change of pace...
Anyway here's what others have said about the subject of camping on the beach...what say you?...:
Beach camping is not too bad IF you bring a large shade structure instead of a tent. Tents, with ANY type of screening, limit breezes too much. Bugs aren't bad yet so screening isn't mandatory...but it is a plus.
The best option is cots under a shade structure so you take advantage of air movement all around you....letting you sleep up off the sand.
When camping on a beach near Cabo Pulmo, we stayed quiet and just watched the thousands of sand crabs combing the beach... It waas a great spectical but a bit unnerving to think about waking up with them crawling all over you as you sleep... and there are the sand flees...scorpions, etc. Hemilia is also a great place to camp...
I would favor camping out on the bluffs just before La Manga. Better swimming and some snorkeling. Cleaner beach. Just keep a clean camp as there can be nasty ants on the bluffs. Less people, too. Secure camp as best you can when you leave.
....don't even bother with a tent or screen room, a large tarp with no sides works far better. I've almost never hit any bugs, and none if close enough to the water or on high enough ground to catch the breeze. take a sun shower and shower off right before dusk, and you'll sleep comfortably even as hot as it is in summer.
It’s CRITICAL to keep up on hydration here....I’ve gotten sick in July even when I thought I was drinking enough water & Gatorade.
There are not only the bluffs right near La Manga but also a good ways up past that which you can still access via road from SC....up to a point with small island which I’ve seen on Google Earth as "Punta Bandido"....just keep bearing away from the water on the dirt roads and they will eventually lead you back toward the water. Unless you have cots, it can be hard finding a place on the bluffs that’s level and clean enough for comfortable sleep. The area Repsilon mentioned will probably also work, and you can get down to beach level easier there....it can be a pain to carry everything up and down the bluffs. There are a few spots you can drive down onto beach from the bluffs north of town if you have 4WD with good off-road tires, buddy with ditto & a towrope, and a positive attitude.
the bluffs right near the beach tend to be pretty littered with trash and other leavings of humanity (PLEASE pack out your trash, and take a shovel and bury any you-know-what well away from camping area....), and beach itself is nicer but pretty damp with dew at night. unless I'm up at some of the deserted sheltered coves well N of SC where i can launch my boat right next to camp, i never set up permanent campsite any more....the best places to sleep at night are not necessarily the best places to wait out the worst of afternoon heat. instead, i sleep up in the hills maybe 1/2 to 1 mile back from water, on high enough ground to get good breeze. For afternoon heat, unless I’m out on the water, the bluffs above the beach are better....I’ll stretch a silver trap between truck camper and some trees. I’ve never had any ant problems, but be sure to put away anything you don’t want the armies of mice (& maybe the stray dog from La Manga and the coyotes) to get into during the night.
FWIW, the local comisaria has posted signs at the pavement's end near the Paradiso (where the road out to La Manga starts) indicating you are supposed to have a permit to camp & threatening fines. Don’t know if this applies to just this area but suspect it might be for SC area generally. I've never bothered about one, and suspect they have better things to do than patrol the desert looking for unpermitted campers, but nonetheless try to make my camp as stealth as possible and to always pick up a big bag of trash first thing in case I ever do get accosted, so I can point out in mitigation that I’m leaving the place better than I found it. I generally work on the "karma plan"....take a couple of cheap soccer balls for the kids at La Manga and plenty of extra beers & cold drinks to share liberally. I’m not sure this has to do with why I get along with the locals and have never had even minor pilferage, but it don’t hurt.....and you’ll never see that many kids that happy over a $6 soccer ball!
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