Jazz and Sharks

So we went on another driving adventure yesterday.  Off the paved roads, out of town and into the hills Larry drove.  After a few miles, the road was then newly paved through the hills and still in the middle of nowhere.  We were heading to east cape with a picnic lunch toward a national park. When we reached the shoreline, the paved road again was dirt - compact sand, and then in some spots, not so compact. I pictured us spinning our wheels in a sand trap - with our already repaired tire.  We never made it to east cape and the national park - I was too stressed out. (more entry below pics).

Part of the nicely paved road

Looking back at civilization (San Jose del Cabo)

Tons of saguaro cacti in the area

I was trying to get a good pic of the mountains in the distance, but could not do it justice

Last night we drove over to the 'hotel zone' and had a lovely Italian dinner at La Forchetta.  The 4th annual Jazz Festival was going on at Plaza del Pescador. We had made reservations in hopes it would secure us a parking place since we had seen earlier in the day that cars were already lining the streets. We did find parking, had dinner and enjoyed a bottle of piccolo wine. We walked across the street to a fancy hotel called Cabo Azul and walked around the the grounds and pools. I checked later and rooms start around $400/night.  Back at the Plaza, we listened to a great group playing for a while before heading back to our place. The foot I sprained last June decided to swell and walking around had to be curtailed.

This morning Larry was up bright and early to go fishing with 'Toro' of Cabo Playa sport fishing. He texted me a few times from the boat to report on their fighting a marlin etc.  They did land a thresher shark.  It is a 'medium' size, about 11 feet long and maybe 300 pounds. As they were cutting it up at the dock, there were quite a few folks who came over asking for some of the steaks.  We have a large steak in the fridge now. Larry has contacted a nearby restaurant and made arrangements for them to cook it for us tonight.

Shark steak - about 5 pounds, 'skin' side up.

Here is the shark prepared by Sardina Cantina - a great hole-in-the-wall restaurant within walking distance of our condo here at La Jolla.

The sauce preparations - there were two - were very tasty, but the shark was very hard to eat, not good at all.