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Percebu Landmark
For those visitors in recent years who have wondered about the Tall Brick Column with the crumbling perimeter, here are a couple of pics taken back
when the Seaside Bar was under construction in the late 80s. Note how much beach there was in front of what is now submerged at High Tide. At that
time, one of the Old Round houses that fell into the ocean was still there in the background.
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Distance Shot
Beach area around bar.
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June 94
The Water was already reaching into the Bar Perimeter. Note the disappearing beach to the South. When we launched our Capri, We used to leave our
vehicle parked out on the sandbar created at High Tide. Hurricane Nora finished the job on the beach. Where we used to camp on the beach in 81-82 is
now 30-50 feet out in the water.
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Looks like the water is rising!
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That round house in the background belonged to my friend Mike Essary and his family. That was our first destination south of San Felipe in 1985.
Mike's family is good friends with Jim and Emma - the couple that own the house with the crashed airplane on the road into Percebu. You must know
them right Bill? We had some great times in that house and in town during those visits. That was Percebu before all the big houses got built and I
think only a couple of year-round residents were there. It was pure insanity during Memorial and Labor Day weekends on that beach. I can't believe
it was over 20 years ago!.
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No Mas Avion
I was told that Jim was up in the VA in San Diego and unlikely to come out. Emma had been staying up there until there was a resolution. As part of
the cleanup and renovation of the camping area and entrance road, the Crashed plane was bulldozed and hauled to the dump. End of an era. Everybody
remembered that plane. It's the first thing I ever took a picture of in Percebu when I came down from San Felipe to check the place out.
Sometime back around 83-84 I was sailing at the back of the lagoon on a high tide and a Honda 90 ATC floated by. I got out to retrieve it, pulled it
ashore and checked the oil to see if there was any water in it. Finding none, I cranked on it until it started, then rode it back home, Linda sailing
the boat back. I left it parked out front. Awhile later Jim came up to tell me it was his and that he loaned to a visitor who rode out to the point
on Shell Beach to fish, leaving it below the high tide line. Although we'd been introduced before, that was the first time we really talked.
Those were the days. As you say, before the first of the BIG houses was ever built. It was insanity on the holidays, though.
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Well, in 1978 (when I took this) that plane was the most interesting thing to photograph in Percebu! I liked the bra strap hanging from the rear
stabilizer and the bones on the ground holding a tequila bottle!
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Bill, do you have any photos of the plane?
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JimsAir
I've taken a number of pictures over the years. Looking through the old albums, this is the first one I took of the plane back in Oct 81.
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Neat stuff!!!!!!!!!!!
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Today
This is the same place now. No plane.
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whats the temp outside today?
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Temp ?
Well, right now I'm up in El Norte recovering from a surgical procedure and waiting for another next week. Here it's a cool 90 degrees, but according
to www.sanfelipe.com.mx, down there it was 91 degrees at 7 a.m. with a heat index of 98. Sounds about right. When we came North, it had started
heating up again five days earlier.
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I all sounds painful to me. It hardly ever gets over 80 at my house. or under 60 for that matter.
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Bill,
I hate to say it, but I will! Those were truly the "good ole days" both in Percebu & Santa Maria for all the above stated reasons! Things have not
gotten better and I wish we could turn back the clock!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by viabaja
Bill,
I hate to say it, but I will! Those were truly the "good ole days" both in Percebu & Santa Maria for all the above stated reasons! Things have not
gotten better and I wish we could turn back the clock! |
Isn't that what this thread is all about?
Saludos. You are two of the lucky ones.
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