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[*] posted on 8-17-2004 at 10:16 PM


Skeet, you mentioned Whip Storms in October. Could that be what in La Paz is called the Cordonazo de San Francisco, which sometimes belts the peninsula around Oct. 4, the day of St. Francis of Assisi? It's supposed to start in the gulf, be ferocious, and more windy than rainy.

Might have to revise my take on the Mar Bermejo. I read somewhere (Venegas or Miguel del Barco, I think) that the name came from the other Red Sea because of similarities of geographic position, which made sense in days of sail, when seafarers would have been more aware of longitude, latitude, etc. than we are now.

And in view of the size of the gulf, I really doubted that enough of it would have been bermejoed by Colorado River water, red tides of whatever to give the whole thing a red name.

I could be wrong, however. (This has happened once.)

And thank you, Natalie Ann. In case you wondered how I could be so unaware as to miss that Tinkerbell avatar--I really hate those jumping-up-and-down smilies and other fluttery things, and somehow manage to not see them. I might have to revise that attitude, too, or just get used to looking stoopud.

And thanks again, guys! But not you, Sharky. Tinkerbell keylhauling? That is unforgivable!

Lera

[Edited on 8-18-2004 by bajalera]




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[*] posted on 8-18-2004 at 03:21 AM
Red tide/Sea


Over a period of years in and around Loreto there would be a Part of the Sea which would turn to a Red Color{Plankton}, most times the Schooling Fish would stay away from the Area of Red.

The ole time mexicano Pangaeros told that it was formed due to the Plankton.

A Happening similiar to the Beaching and Death of 18 Whales near Mulege many years ago, the Beaching of the Giant Squid on Odd numbered years, or the appearance of many Theasher Sharks{Like this year}> It may have somthing to do with the "El Nino, I do not Know!

I Think that the Great Fishing in the past couple of Years around Loreto is that the Shrimp Boats have been Banned, resulting in a huge increase in the Shrimp, it being a Food Supply for many different Types of Sea Creatures.

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[*] posted on 8-24-2004 at 07:28 PM


Sharky, ever meet the taco ferry in Sta. Rosalia? Damn good tacos.:lol:

Gee I wonder why they call it the Vermillon sea?
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