Jim and I decided to spend a little more time in Mulege after a great breakfast at the Las Casitas Hotel this morning while the rest of the group buzzed down to Loreto. There’s a lot to see in this town and Jim wanted to take it all in. I’ve been to Loreto plenty of times, and I was up for exploring Mulege in more detail.
The Mulege Mission is an amazing place with incredible photo ops, and we had a good time there this morning…
Brother Jim in front of the Mulege Mission.
The Mulege Mission interior. It’s beautiful.
A Mulege Mission alcove.
Looking out one of the Mission’s doors.
Jim in the Mulege Mission.
Another exterior scene framed by a Mulege Mission door.
We had an easy and very scenic ride along the Sea of Cortez back up to Santa Rosalia and the first order of business there was to visit another church. Santa Rosalia’s all-steel church has quite a story behind it. It’s another beautiful church and it is a fun place to photograph…
The Santa Barbara church in Santa Rosalia.
My RX3 parked in front of the Santa Rosalia church.
Wow. You can see the difference in architecture here. Gustav Eiffel, the same guy who designed the Eiffel Tower, designed this church.
Stained glass in the Santa Rosalia church. My Nikon did a great job here.
The story behind the Santa Rosalia church.
Santa Rosalia started life as a fishing village and a mining town. The French Boleo mining company built this town, and its architecture is unique in Baja. All the buildings are constructed of wood, including the Frances Hotel where we are staying tonight.
Heading into downtown Santa Rosalia.
El Boleo bakery in el centro Santa Rosalia.
One of Santa Rosalia’s fixer uppers. I’ll bet this house has an interesting history.
An old locomotive in front of our hotel.
My bike is a blog hog.
The mining museum, another amazing old wooden building.
That last photo above is of Santa Rosalia’s mining museum. We stopped in there for a bit and it is a very interesting place.
Tough work, back in the day. I hurt just looking at that photo.
Mining tools. Nah, it’s a motorcycle tool kit. There’s a joke in there somewhere.
Inside the mining museum. It was an interesting place.
A porch ran all the way around the mining museum. This is looking out over the Sea of Cortez.
A friendly Mexican pup, whose nap I disturbed when I took this photo. He was stretched out in front of the mining museum.
I rode by the mining museum on my prior visits to Santa Rosalia, but I had never stopped to see it. It was pretty cool. And while I was taking photos in front of the museum, a guy came over to talk about cameras. It turns out Oswaldo is a Nikon man, too. We had a good discussion and I made a new friend.
Good buddy Oswaldo, a fellow photography enthusiast.
The French stopped mining copper in Santa Rosalia before I first visited this town in 1994 because the ore had played out, but I guess the price of copper has increased enough to make mining economically viable again. They are back at it, and it’s the same Boleo company.
That’s it for today, folks. The rest of the guys are due in from Loreto any time now, and we’ll be going to dinner at El Muelle. Tomorrow is a big day for us…we’ll be headed 400 miles north to San Quintin. Good times. Stay tuned, and you’ll be able to read all about it right here on the CSC blog!
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