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David K
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March 10, A-OK Back north near first camp
Spot #14
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David K
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New Spot signal today shows Graham almost halfway across to the east side of the Island. Will post map when I get back on my PC.
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Spot 15, March 11, 2013
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Spot 16, March 15, 2013
Back to the coast camp site!
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Spot 17, March 17, 2013
Graham is once again walked about half-way across towards the east side of Angel Island...
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micah202
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........hmmm,,,wonder if he's even talked to anyone since he went out,,
.....let alone had a meal cooked for him!!!!! 
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Don't know how valuable the tracking is for this particular trip. They really don't tell you much of what is going on. Or maybe I'm just not looking
hard enough for clues.
Was the purpose of tracking to allow us to share Graham's trip? Perhaps more frequent signals would help us piece it together.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Don't know how valuable the tracking is for this particular trip. They really don't tell you much of what is going on. Or maybe I'm just not looking
hard enough for clues.
Was the purpose of tracking to allow us to share Graham's trip? Perhaps more frequent signals would help us piece it together.
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In the beginning of this thread I thought I mentioned that Graham was only going to show us his spot every few days or when he moves. This was to save
battery life while still sharing his location with us. He would welcome a visit (and a beer, I am sure)!
[Edited on 3-18-2013 by David K]
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Bob H
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David, can you give us an idea of the distance... like between spot 16 and spot 17? He's gone up there twice now.
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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....yeh,, the occaisonal 'pings' let people know he's still ticking,,,and locations as David said.
.....seems he's doing the trip for himself mostly,,,and the pings help keep the wife re-assured
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Don't know how valuable the tracking is for this particular trip. They really don't tell you much of what is going on. Or maybe I'm just not looking
hard enough for clues.
Was the purpose of tracking to allow us to share Graham's trip? Perhaps more frequent signals would help us piece it together.
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In the beginning of this thread I thought I mentioned that Graham was only going to show us his spot every few days or when he moves. This was to save
battery life while still sharing his location with us. He would welcome a visit (and a beer, I am sure)!
[Edited on 3-18-2013 by David K] |
Not much time to visit I'm afraid. I believe he's leaving the island in the next week or two. I waited too long and had to cancel.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MikeYounghusband
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Don't know how valuable the tracking is for this particular trip. They really don't tell you much of what is going on. Or maybe I'm just not looking
hard enough for clues.
Was the purpose of tracking to allow us to share Graham's trip? Perhaps more frequent signals would help us piece it together.
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In the beginning of this thread I thought I mentioned that Graham was only going to show us his spot every few days or when he moves. This was to save
battery life while still sharing his location with us. He would welcome a visit (and a beer, I am sure)!
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Not much time to visit I'm afraid. I believe he's leaving the island in the next week or two. I waited too long and had to cancel.
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Graham arrived on Angel Island on 2-10-13, so it has been just over a month... I thought he was planning two months on the island...? The next phase
will be to walk or 'explore' the peninsula... perhaps after a brief time out?
EDIT: less than an hour ago in my inbox was a new message and spot for Graham, he indeed wants off the island when it can be arranged.
[Edited on 3-19-2013 by David K]
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob H
David, can you give us an idea of the distance... like between spot 16 and spot 17? He's gone up there twice now. |
You bet Bob!...
If you can make it out, I drew a ruler line from his popular beach site (Spot 16) to his location yesterday. Just over 4 miles, as the crow flies.
Perhaps more than 5 miles traveling around the mountain, on its south side?
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David K
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MAR. 18, 2013: Trip over. All's well. I would like to be picked up when weather allows
Okay, he is back at his main beach island location and is ready for a pick up!
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Spot signal came in today from the panga (?) taking Graham back to Bahia de los Angeles!
Graham's Spot 3-20-13
[Edited on 3-21-2013 by David K]
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Me too! I'd like to get picked up and switch places with Graham.
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Dang. There's Gary Graham and Graham Macintosh. It's all so confusing.
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Graham
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Back from the island. What an amazing pristine place. Looking forward to returning and seeing more…but not for a while and maybe not alone, it was
getting buggy the last few days.
Brought back so many memories of my Into a Desert Place trip. I lost about ten pounds hiking up and down canyons and wandering along the shoreline
seeing what there was.
Never moved camp, mostly because it was so well protected from the relentless wind and also because I found so many barrels and crates and other
useful stuff my location was just getting too cozy.
Never spoke to anyone in five and half weeks except an LA Bay American fisherman and his boat companion who knew the Spot location and came out to the
island twice and once dropped me off 3 gallons of water and then returned with more water and much appreciated fresh food and other treats a week
later.
The extra water was a real joy. I’d been using a hand pump reverse osmosis desalinator to make drinking water from the sea. Because I was using it on
land instead of out at sea it would take me nearly two hours to make a gallon!
Took lots of photos and enjoyed all the fantastic color and wildlife... sealions, sea turtles, ospreys. Lots of cat tracks and scat but no vampire cat
encounters this time. But always plenty of dead things.
On the rare calm days or when I cared to battle wind and current, the bottom fishing was usually too easy… at least for bass and big mouth “lingcods.”
I never wanted to catch more than one of the latter as they always came up from the depths bloated and dying.
At the end of five and half weeks I was ready to head home. I had been transported right back to my struggle to reach LA Bay from San Felipe 30 years
before with water more precious than anything and food everywhere in the form of fish, seaweed, cactus fruits and ocotillo flowers, clams and berries.
But quite honestly I wondered how I’d dealt with the sun and the loneliness and uncertainties of that trip…I’ll have to read the book again. I guess
constant struggle, exhaustion, and the kindness offered to strangers in Baja had a lot to do with it.
I’ll post photos later. Sorry I missed you Mike.
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Hi Graham,
Love your continued travel journeys! I re read parts of your book Baja Burro earlier today. Love the stories and photos.
Take Care,
Scot
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Looking south to LA Bay.
[Edited on 3-26-2013 by BajaNomad]
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Thanks Scot,
I'll try to get a few more photos in here but I'm having problems with Photobucket - maybe been out on the island too long.
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