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The Great Baja Adventure

Baja Gifts Program

The gifts, the sorting and the bagging.
It was an evening event.

Clothing and toiletries

Toys, crayons, coloring books, and candy.

A little light evening entertainment.

Dufflebags loaded with gifts.

Sorting the household stuff

More toys and crayons

Household gifts

School supplies

We sorted well into the night.

The group ended up with 24 household gift bags,
16 school supplies and toys gift bags and one teachers gift bag.

The Distribution

The first stop was the coastal fishing town of San Evaristo.
The town was quiet.

Not even the kids were in school.
So gift packs were left at the doorstep of the school.

Finally a family. They explained to us that
most of the town went to La Paz for the Carnival.

Down to the salt pans of Evaristo where more families lived.

One of the homes near the salt pans.

More gift packs were left at the doorstep of homes.

We spotted the fishing trawler we toured the
day before so we hopped in the panga to fetch
fresh shrimp and give them a few of the gift bags.

When we arrived they were cleaning the
nights catch so we left the gift bags with them.

We visited a fishing village located on a small
rocky island. A few of the gift bags were distributed there.

Her Grandma received a gift bag as well

Liz and Jan spent a lot of time and money collected thoughtful household, toiletry, clothes, toys and school supplies for the Gift program. Most of the gifts were distributed during the trip and what was left over were given to the crew, their families and neighbors they felt would most prosper from the gifts.

While most of the recipients were away at the Carnival in La Paz, they will all come home to a little gift bag on their doorstep from friends whom they never met but obviously cared enough to think of them.

Day 1 - on the water | Day 2 | Day 3(1) | Day 3(2) | Day 4(1) | Day 4(2) | Day 5

A Day with the Gray Whales of Magdalena Bay | Baja Gifts Program

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