bajajudy - 4-7-2006 at 08:36 AM
For those of you who havent been down in a while. This is what it looks like down by the fish palapas
bajajudy - 4-7-2006 at 08:39 AM
The bait is getting caught between the two jetties. Like shooting fish in a barrel.
Slowmad - 4-7-2006 at 01:28 PM
Take care, San Jose.
It was nice knowing you.
1) kick Playita residents to slum
2) build marina
3) further despoil estuary with no EIR
4) surround marina with hotels, Hard Rock Cafes, clip joints, sailor-wanna-hump-hump bars, 50,000 imported mainland laborers lit up on chuqui
(home-brew meth), junkies, transexual hookers, 20,000 smug new condo "owners" immune to the irony of creating what they came to escape, etc., ad
nauseum. Just like Cabo, but airport-close!
5) pave the camino rural costero, build gated tracts on every headland (in progress).
Would Tamaral's fate (as illustrated on the mission's mural) not be fair-market recompense for the developers?
We're witnessing the agave bloom flareout.
Enjoy it as you can.
[Edited on 4-7-2006 by Slowmad]
4baja - 4-7-2006 at 06:38 PM
its a sad sad sight!!!!!!
The other jetty
bajajudy - 4-8-2006 at 09:23 AM
Took this last night at sunset. kinda dark. But this is the other jetty. There will be one more in between the two.
Both jettys have nav lights on them as they are definitely a hazzard.....to a way of life.
Ah well you do know that you have to destroy a village to make an authentic Mexican village these days.
What is EIR?
oladulce - 4-8-2006 at 09:28 AM
Judy
Will you take a couple more photos in a month or two when the huge south swells start to pound that stretch of beach ?
I can picture everyone gathering in the evening to watch the waves explode on the jetties.
And then a few more next year about this time after the sand has been able to collect around the jetties all winter, and new surf spots are formed at
the marina entrance !
I've always wondered "what were they thinking?" to build a marina in that spot. It's got a rare combination of conditions which allows the formation
of massive shorebreak waves- deep water just off the beach, parallel exposed shoreline, and South-facing right in the path of hurricane or southern
hemisphere swell energy.
Marinas always change the flow of sand in the area and it'll be interesting to see what happens here.
Paula - 4-8-2006 at 09:29 AM
Judy it must be hard to see this happening in the place you love so much... we are hoping Loreto won't be next.
I'm learning to appreciate the wind here, especially when it blows on Loreto Bay fly-in weekends!
Pompano - 4-8-2006 at 09:44 AM
Judy..for whom the bells toll, alas, it tolls for thee....and all of us.
bajajudy - 4-8-2006 at 09:50 AM
Hey guys you do what you gotta do, right.
We are all laughing at the folly of this entire marina project. There are so many underground springs that they will never be able to keep it
dredged. I am still waiting for the canoe racing and stocking it with bass for kayak fishing at its best. or it will be the biggest most expensive
small craft marina in the world.
All the fishermen laugh when we talk about the swells and 10 to 12 footers that come in here during a good storm.
Here is another shot just because I like that way it looks.
Plan to go up to the cross soon to take some shots. They actually have some floating docks in the water. Will post those for all interested.
[Edited on 4-8-2006 by bajajudy]
Pompano - 4-8-2006 at 10:18 AM
Thanks for the progress reports and photos, bajajudy. You are a good reporter of what's happening in our neck of the woods.
bajajudy - 4-8-2006 at 02:23 PM
You know I have been thinking about the statement that it must be hard to watch this happen. The two things that bother my the most have to do with
pollution....one, noise and the other, air. One of the things that I loved about our place was that while being close to San Jose, it was in fact
very rural. Hanging out the clothes was an enjoyable experience. Now I hear jake brakes and what ever it is that the truck drivers do to make the
ground rumble with vibrations and smell diesel exhaust...both disgusting. Well I can hardly stop washing clothes but I do try to hang them out at
night, on sundays, on holidays etc.
I still keep telling myself that one day all of that stuff will be over, i. e. the construction phase will be behind us. Until then I try not to get
too upset and enjoy my morning walks on the beach with my dogs. I do get a whiff of diesel every now and then on the beach when a bull dozer or some
other earth moving machine goes by.
I guess what I think is that as things change physically, you kinda forget what it used to be like. But when you dont feel like you are living in a
very healthy environment anymore that makes me sad. For everyone.