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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Diver
David,
Show us your legs !!! 
I see a definite resemblance between you mom and your daughter.
Both pretty ladies ! |
What, you haven't seen this photo? It is in the first web page I ever made about the trip to Mision Santa Maria in May, 1999 and then a hike up Santa
Maria canyon from Gonzaga with Baja Mur. The water was just too inviting and I had swimming trunks in my back pack for just such a situation.
That web site is http://vivabaja.com/missionsm
PS, thanks for noticing Sarah's resmblence to my mom...
[Edited on 8-3-2006 by David K]
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DK-Does the Salada fill up with fresh water from storms or salt water pushed in by high tides and winds(10 pts. for this one)?
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I've been looking at my satellite photos of the area - don't know what year they were made but it shows water in the NE end - near the mountains
apearing to get shallower ans you head SE. in checking the elevation it shows a elevationa of 200+ feet north of the water going quickly down to
below sealevel and then rising very slowely to barely above sea level where the causeway that Hghy 5 is on.
I believe I've read that it filled from the Colorado river during very wet years. That would be from the S end thru the causway. Of course all the
dams on the Colorado almost eiminate any possibility of that happening now.
[Edited on 8-3-2006 by bajalou]
The top of the picture is just about on the US-Mex border
[Edited on 8-3-2006 by bajalou]
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David K
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The Colorado flooded and the delta was blocked... a deversion canal to create a Mexican Salton Sea worked too well and the unstabilized canal banks
gave way which flooded the lower Salada (where Hwy. 5 crosses it).
Hwy. 5 was eroding fast... the road surface was all warped... this was in 1977-78. By 1980 construction began oin the new causeway for Hwy. 5, much
wider with many culverts added... finished by '85. People used to park along it and fish! Now it is all dry again...
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MrBillM
Interesting. Over the years, I had asked numerous Mexicans when that boat got there and how. I received as many different answers as the questions I
asked.
I first saw it in 1981 when I visited the Percebu area and I've got a bunch of pics, inside and out, that I took on Christmas Day 1982. The boat was
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Yes, it was indeed 1967's hurricane/chubasco (which washed through San Felipe with a flash flood that left caskets from the cemetery on the beach),
that deposited the shrimp boat so far inland. We were fishing that bay (Bahia Santa Maria) before and after it was washed in. The closest Mexicans to
the boat location where miles away... one at Nuevo Mazatlan (Luis Castellanos Moreno) and fishermen at Percebu (before it was a tourist campo).
Bill, it would be great to see your photos...
[Edited on 8-3-2006 by David K]
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Those guys on the shrimp boat had a wild ride, a nightmare. David K., the family pictures are great. Thanks for sharing.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
1) When did this shrimp boat get here/ what event helped?
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I knew those pics looked familiar.
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David K
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Thanks Doug... There is a LOT here on Nomad, and by poping the old threads up, it gives the new folks a chance to see... Was I really that small at
one time (1967)???
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MrBillM
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Shipwrecked
I pulled out my old albums and looked for pics I took of the wreck in Dec 82. By then, only the Hull was still there intact. I found to my dismay
that most of the photos had faded badly as a result of inferior discount Photo Finishing. Only a few were good enough to scan. Perhaps someday I'll
find the negatives.
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MrBillM
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Engine Compartment
Dec 82
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David K
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Thanks for showing it, as it was in '82...
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Baja Bernie
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David
We all looked like that some thirty years ago. I guess we absorbed to much of Baja.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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Thanks for all those pics! Great to see and hear about the reason the landscape on the road to san Filipe looks the way it does.
We all want a peaceful world, filled with love and laughter, but we fill ourselves with anger and hate trying to fiqure out how to achive it.
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ALL THAT WAS LEFT...
As of a couple of years ago, the stripped motor was still laying there on the dirt.
Not sure about it now, maybe someone can ride out and check it next trip.
AMO
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