San Felipe

Rear view of our the 3 rigs at sunrise.

Our Baja Camping Book says of Villa Marina Campground, ‘This is the nicest and most modern campground south of San Felipe.’  There is no similar comment about any campground north of town, so one assumes this is as good as it gets.  I don’t doubt the book; it’s thorough and current.  Thing is, ‘the nicest’ isn’t all that nice.

Front view of our 3 rigs, with view decks above

Same as above; we're in the middle of this row.

David & Elaine watching sunrise.

We are a mini-convoy of 3 rigs: Terry & Lisa who summer in CO, David & Elaine who summer in WA, and us - who summer anywhere we darn well please.  Our summer home has wheels!

Sunrise view of the front RV row, taken from the beach at low tide.

There are 3 parallel rows of RV sites and we’re in the center row so our view of the water is blocked by the RVs in the first row – which is full of long termers and not available to traveling trailer trash such as ourselves.  Our spaces have upper decks where you can see the beach to the north and south, but not directly in front.  Not great but better than nothing. 

We selected this campground because we wanted hookups, thinking full hookups (electric, water, sewer) trumped view.  Turns out the connections are at the wrong end of the site.  We were able to connect to electric but not sewer; the water connection is reachable but, wishing to avoid Montezuma’s Revenge, aka The Baja Quick Step, we’re only using the water in our holding tanks.