We first discovered Rocky Point in 1984 when Lauren’s brother was involved in bringing solar power to the Playa Encanto beach. Things were a lot more primitive back then, with portable generators for power, water that had to be trucked in from town, and the entrance road was so primitive that you had to deflate your tires to make it! Getting stuck was a common occurrence, and our car always had a tow rope close at hand. We fell in love with the beautiful ocean at the desert’s edge, the night sky bursting with stars, the massive tides and the serene beach experience that this secluded peninsula provided us with. We stayed at other beaches in Rocky Point as the years went by, but there was something about looking out over this pure sand beach as far as the eye could see, the close proximity to the magical estuary that emptied and filled twice a day, and the solitude of the area that kept calling us back. We stayed many nights when we thought we were the only people on the beach! Those early days were more like “glamping” with very primitive rental options. Sometimes we ran out of water, or sometimes the generators didn’t work, but we didn’t care. We were in paradise!