After registering for the next 2 nights, we drove the Puerto Blanco Drive as far as the 2-way road goes. It gets quite rough and deserted after that apparently. This area is a route popular with both illegal migrants and drug traffickers:
They are mostly active at night though, when we aren't. We're averaging 10-12 hrs sack time per night!
We did do a hike on the Red Tanks Trail. The flag and barrel shown marks one of the relief stations set up here and there, for humanitarian reasons. There are quite a number of deaths each year of illegal migrants trying to make it through the desert to a better life in the US, and a lot (even most) of these deaths are due to dehydration. I hope Trump doesn't outlaw these aid stations in the name of more "security":
When we left on our hike, ours was the only vehicle in the parking area. There were several there when we got back though, including 3 that disgorged a troop of Border Security agents, all dressed in dark camo and equipped with body armour and handguns. They headed off on the trail we had just been on, no sense of urgency though. We didn't feel we'd dare take their picture!
The showers back at the campground were cool and refreshing. The shower water is solar-heated, and today wasn’t a good day for that.
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