Estero Morua 12/4/2016 Tom Alone. I HAVEN'T BEEN HERE SINCE October 2011! THIS SEEMS TO BE TRIP 200. TWO-HUNDRED. I got my truck repaired for 1367 dollars and it worked fine. (hoses, belts, timing belt, oil, water pump, etc.) I HATE Maricopa. What a train wreck of a strip filled with cars and traffic. I forgot that the Maricopa Road exit was north of Sun Lakes and so I took the Casa Blanca Road exit and drove through the rez. An Indian girl assured me that I'd get to Maricopa that way and she was right. No one knew how to get to Gila Bend from there but all you have to do is drive down Maricopa Road through town clean to Pete's Corner and right to Gila Bend. Worked good. Got TOTALLY lost. Signs on the Caborca Road kept saying straight to Playa Encanto but they were in error. A guard at Playa Dorada gave me the right directions. I WAS THE ONLY ONE THERE AT THE BEACH FOR FOUR DAYS! Nobody to speak of at Playa Encanto either. DESERT on the way down is spectack! Ceiling panels hiss with the wind sucking air from the house. A BLANKET OF STARS. I saw a Herring Gull pecking at a fish that was flipping. It was a miniature grouper thing quite big enough to eat. It reminded me of Dad's entry: Gerald A Cole wrote: "November 15, 1980 Saturday some Mexicanos, netters, were pulling in nets down by the campground. I went down to the beach with a crisp 20-peso note, eager to purchase sierra mackerel or other choice piscine bits. To my horror, they were throwing back all the fish, the species looking like leatherjackets. (They were farther offshore than I had guessed.) They were a little rough on the fish and as I was returning, I looked back to see some gulls had carried a fish up to the shore. I went back and spooked the gulls away finding the fish was still flopping. We had it for lunch. It was something new, a rooster fish Nematistius pectoralis, the papagallo, a member of the separate family, Nematistiidae. Very small scales. Delicious, sweet white meat." I took a movie of MY fish but it somehow isn't in the camera. Antonio came over and fixed the water pump whose lines were full of air. Oscar Moreno the other guard helped me with the electric lines and brought me tamales. One Lupe came by. He speaks English but we only spoke Spanish. Oscar and Lupe let me use their phones to call Steve and Lupe helped me with the wifi. Antonio had given me the wrong user name. It's Estero1 and password pelicanbeach. He told me EsteroMorua. READ MORE BELOW.
