Day 6-drive to the beach

Today we drove from Hermosillo to Bahia de Kino on the east side of the Gulf of California (the Mexicans call it the Sea of Cortez).  Our group of 10 from Kansas, 3 from Aqua Prieta, and Pastor Ramon and his kids went.  It was about 1 1/2 hrs largely through the desert,  although there were a number of irrigated farms along the route.  Thankfully there were wide margins on either side of the road where slower traffic would move over for easier passing, and with a largely flat straight road the challenge of passing was far easier than on the mountain road a few days ago.

The farms that we passed included large trees (pecan??), grape, vines  and melon fields.  the trees were all staked on one side, and we could see later that afternoon on our return that the prevailing wind was from the west and the sea.  At lunch in town we ran into an American buyer  from CA. Who always came down for harvest season.

When we didn't see farms we saw impressively  large clumps of cactus and periodically a lone soul slowly riding his bike along the side of the road.  A number of hawks were soaring on the breezes.  There were also a lot of unfinished and apparently abandoned construction projects along the way.  I found these particularly puzzling.  Many were started in the middle of no where.  I couldn't figure out why anyone would start building anything in these locations.  I also couldn't always figure out what was being built.  Some looked liked a residence, others clearly were not.