weebray
Super Nomad
Posts: 1094
Registered: 7-19-2010
Location: La Paz
Member Is Offline
Mood: lleno
|
|
Number 1 tip all Baja travelers should know
Once or twice a decade Baja California gets an extended period of soft rain. That is right now. The ground and plants are slowly soaking up the
gift. Normally, the rain will be prodigious and brief. The ground so dry it's actually waterproof. The arroyo's run in torrents altering the roads
and landscape. The oceans muddy. The tip is that after these rare rains the landscape will explode in verdant abundancy as if it were hand watered.
If you are on the "otro lado" and contemplating or planning to visit do not wait. The time has arrived, this winter is going to be staggeringly
beautiful. Things will bloom that have not for years. Fish will appear from the dust. You've been tipped off, saddle up.
Every beautiful beach in the world needs a few condo towers - NOT.
|
|
|
bajatrailrider
Super Nomad
Posts: 2423
Registered: 1-24-2015
Location: Mexico
Member Is Offline
Mood: Happy
|
|
Prey tell when will I get rain in northern Baja . Thank you
|
|
|
Howard
Super Nomad
Posts: 2346
Registered: 11-13-2007
Location: Loreto/Manhattan Beach/Kona
Member Is Offline
Mood: I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
|
|
As soon as you wash your car.
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
|
|
|
SFandH
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6925
Registered: 8-5-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
Usually, southern CA and northern Baja CA get rain in the winter. It's always a good thing though.
Glad to hear BCS is getting watered. We'll be there in a month for the winter.
|
|
|
AKgringo
Elite Nomad
Posts: 5807
Registered: 9-20-2014
Location: Anchorage, AK (no mas!)
Member Is Online
Mood: Retireded
|
|
My first excursion on the roads south of Bahia de Los Angeles was after a set of storms had passed through the area. It was about five years ago,
close to this time of the year.
It was in full bloom, with even grass sprouting in a few places that I thought it would never survive! I have traveled it regularly since then, and
it has become my favorite Baja road, but that first pass will always stand out in my memory.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
|
|
|
BajaMama
Super Nomad
Posts: 1106
Registered: 10-4-2015
Location: Pleasanton/Punta Chivato
Member Is Offline
Mood: Got Baja fever!!
|
|
Is the rain falling in the Santa Rosalia / Mulegé area?
|
|
|
LAKingsFan
Newbie
Posts: 12
Registered: 8-30-2018
Member Is Offline
Mood: Cazadores y un puro!
|
|
Quote: Originally posted by weebray  | | The time has arrived, this winter is going to be staggeringly beautiful. Things will bloom that have not for years. |
Oh wow - I can't wait to see it!
|
|
|
BajaBlanca
Select Nomad
Posts: 13165
Registered: 10-28-2008
Location: La Bocana, BCS
Member Is Offline
|
|
There was no rain in Mulege or Santa Rosalia when we drove it yesterday but the green is already showing up and the cows are all grazing near the
sides of the road, time to be extra careful!
|
|
|
MrBillM
Platinum Nomad
Posts: 21656
Registered: 8-20-2003
Location: Out and About
Member Is Offline
Mood: It's a Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Day
|
|
Gaga over Green
Forty-some years ago, a relation of my (then) wife from Northern Georgia visiting us in Indio during the Spring once remarked "If you think it (the
spring greenery and flowers) is so great, why in Hell do you live out here in the desert ?"
Good Question.
|
|
|
mtgoat666
Select Nomad
Posts: 17295
Registered: 9-16-2006
Location: San Diego
Member Is Offline
Mood: Hot n spicy
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by MrBillM | Forty-some years ago, a relation of my (then) wife from Northern Georgia visiting us in Indio during the Spring once remarked "If you think it (the
spring greenery and flowers) is so great, why in Hell do you live out here in the desert ?"
Good Question. |
Excellent question!
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
|
|
|
BajaMama
Super Nomad
Posts: 1106
Registered: 10-4-2015
Location: Pleasanton/Punta Chivato
Member Is Offline
Mood: Got Baja fever!!
|
|
I always traveled to BCS in May/June, occasionally April. A few years back (and every years since) I have added October to my travels. I was
flabbergasted by how green it is that time of the year. And the water is sooooooo warm!
|
|
|
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
