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mcfez
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Calamajue wanted
Any good folks out there have some Calamajue photos?
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Skipjack Joe
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Fishing photos or the Ken Cook offroading type of photos?
I have been discouraged from going there in recent years due to the drug traffic going on. By the people at Cocos and Gonzaga. They told me that I
might get held up and have to 'donate' all my gas for their needs. So beware. It's no longer the place described in 'King of the Moon'.
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It's a quiet place now.... the fish camp is gone. Creepy quiet. There is primitive camping available but as Igor alluded to, beware. A couple of years
ago I came across (driving by in my truck) piles of large, plastic wrapped bales of "something." I didn't hang around to ask the guy that was standing
sentry on a nearby rock what were the contents. I acknowledged his presence and continued north. This was in that boulder field between Cocos and
Gonzaga. That said, in forty years of traveling around Baja, I've never been hassled, heisted, or bothered, ever. The people of Baja have been nothing
but gracious, friendly, and helpful. That was the only instance that was overtly suspicious. Good luck out there. Jim
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Fishing photos or the Ken Cook offroading type of photos?
I have been discouraged from going there in recent years due to the drug traffic going on. By the people at Cocos and Gonzaga. They told me that I
might get held up and have to 'donate' all my gas for their needs. So beware. It's no longer the place described in 'King of the Moon'.
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Gene Kira modeled his book's fictional village from Agua Verde, south of Loreto... but being fiction it could have been any place in Baja...
In a way, that cove is similar to Puerto Calamajue!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
Any good folks out there have some Calamajue photos? |
You didn't specify which Calamajue (mission, mill, arroyo or port)...
Here are the mission photos and data: http://www.vivabaja.com/missions1/page8.html
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Fishing photos or the Ken Cook offroading type of photos?
I have been discouraged from going there in recent years due to the drug traffic going on. By the people at Cocos and Gonzaga. They told me that I
might get held up and have to 'donate' all my gas for their needs. So beware. It's no longer the place described in 'King of the Moon'.
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Gene Kira modeled his book's fictional village from Agua Verde, south of Loreto... but being fiction it could have been any place in Baja...
In a way, that cove is similar to Puerto Calamajue! |
How do you know?
He told me it was Calamajue.
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When he autographed my book, he told the group there it was based on Agua Verde... and if you open up your book to the map facing Chapter 1... of the
area of the cove shown on the locater insert map between Loreto and La Paz, you will have no doubt that it is Agua Verde... and his fictional name for
the village is given as Caleta Agua Amargosa, B.C.S., Mexico ... BCS.
[Edited on 9-6-2010 by David K]
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Oh... You're right. I checked it out. My bad. I could have sworn he told me it was Calamajue when we met. He was still in the process of writing it
back then. Said he was inspired by the shark fisherman that lived in that cove. Perhaps he changed his mind during the writing. Oh well.
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It's all good... perhaps he changed the location after he went on south to Agua Verde and Calamajue was his first choice!?
That is still good author history Igor...
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Calamajue fish camp.
Looking for road conditions and the ocean front
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Skipjack Joe,
Great photos. Love the roosterfish foamer. We are also planning a 4 day weekend in mid-Oct down to Gonzaga/Calamajue. Thinking of doing a loop in
from Puertocitos and out thru Catavina. Given the drug traffic you alluded to, best to avoid the road out to MX1 altogether, or just avoid Calamajue?
I would welcome your and anyone else's thoughts.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.
-Thomas Jefferson
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Skip-
let me say this one more time, that is one LUCKY kid you got there! he's always got a grin on his face. good job, Amigo......
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Nice photos...
About 27 years ago, Graham Mackintosh doing his walk around the coast of Baja had some interesting writings on the camp and people of Puerto
Calamajue... Read 'Into s Desert Place' http://grahammackintosh.com
Helping the locals at Calamajue, 1983
[Edited on 4-5-2014 by David K]
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How is this spot during the month of October? I got a month off and need to discovery a few new spots...this being one of them. Looking for info on
fishing (from shore and from 12 boat), snorkeling, ect.
The bandit factors dont bother me, having never encountered issues in the last 25 years.....so lets not drama queen here about that stuff plez
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
How is this spot during the month of October? I got a month off and need to discovery a few new spots...this being one of them. Looking for info on
fishing (from shore and from 12 boat), snorkeling, ect.
The bandit factors dont bother me, having never encountered issues in the last 25 years.....so lets not drama queen here about that stuff plez
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Next time tell me you're an a$$hole from the start and I won't go through the trouble of posting.
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stimbo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
How is this spot during the month of October? I got a month off and need to discovery a few new spots...this being one of them. Looking for info on
fishing (from shore and from 12 boat), snorkeling, ect.
The bandit factors dont bother me, having never encountered issues in the last 25 years.....so lets not drama queen here about that stuff plez
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Bandits are the least of your worries...... just go for it. Serendipity is a good thing.
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Rumors rumors and more rumors. Every freaking town has drug deals. Has crime. We all know this. Why dread on it. If you are so concerned about the
wilds of Baja...perhaps you need to lock yourself up in your home. Calling folks names aint cool either....drama queen was not aimed at you directly.
Put you gun back in its holster.
| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
How is this spot during the month of October? I got a month off and need to discovery a few new spots...this being one of them. Looking for info on
fishing (from shore and from 12 boat), snorkeling, ect.
The bandit factors dont bother me, having never encountered issues in the last 25 years.....so lets not drama queen here about that stuff plez
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Next time tell me you're an a$$hole from the start and I won't go through the trouble of posting. |
[Edited on 9-7-2010 by mcfez]
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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David K
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Everytime someone asks me about if I am affraid to go to Baja with all the crime and killings, I ask them if they are affraid to go to Los Angeles...
more crime and killing there... and it happens every day!
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David,
A year or two ago you clearly stated on BN that you were taking a break from Baja due to such issues...glad to see that you are still ripping up the
beaches 
I, for one, have greatly appreciated your Baja info over the years....we just don't vote the same way 
Don't believe everything you think....
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Macfuzz,
I suggest that you DO go to Calamujue....as I fully believe Coco's first-hand accounts of Calamujue smugglers, their murdering a local a handful of
years back, and their practice of robbing unwary goofs arriving at their drop-off .
Coco has an interesting enough a life he doesn't have to make stuff up.....
I would love to see your pics of Calamujue.....please give us your up-to-date status of that deserted fish camp....
| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
Rumors rumors and more rumors. Every freaking town has drug deals. Has crime. We all know this. Why dread on it. If you are so concerned about the
wilds of Baja...perhaps you need to lock yourself up in your home. Calling folks names aint cool either....drama queen was not aimed at you directly.
Put you gun back in its holster.
| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
How is this spot during the month of October? I got a month off and need to discovery a few new spots...this being one of them. Looking for info on
fishing (from shore and from 12 boat), snorkeling, ect.
The bandit factors dont bother me, having never encountered issues in the last 25 years.....so lets not drama queen here about that stuff plez
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Next time tell me you're an a$$hole from the start and I won't go through the trouble of posting. |
[Edited on 9-7-2010 by mcfez] |
Don't believe everything you think....
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