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shari
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Historical Dump in Bahia Asuncion
On our way home from the beach swim yesterday we came across this sight.
It was a weird garbage dump as there was nothing but old...real old cans. Juan explained that it was the dump for the original Cantina and the cans
were over 50 years old! There were thousands of cans...a whole lotta cerveza was drank there! Nothing but a piece of flat bare ground where the bar
was...if cans could talk eh.
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Pretty cool.
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It is hard to say nice things about an abandoned dump, but at least it is not a bunch of plastic blowing around the dessert. If the price of scrap
metal gets high enough, it might even get cleaned up at little or no cost.
I saw that dump when I stayed at your camp (La Sirena?) I will stop by again in the fall and do some more exploring.
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Go into a bar today and listen. Probably the same thing is being said today. Prices are going up, the politicians are crooks, something is wrong with
the car, fishing is good/bad, and that Canadian babe at the end of the bar looks like she's lookin'. 
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There are several of those dumps around which are almost exclusively the same type of can. A steel can with an aluminum top and a removable "pop top".
I was curious and assumed they had all come from the same source which only sold one kind of beer. These cans were common starting in about 1960 and
were phased out in the mid 70's because of the litter of the removable tops.
That's where I found my favorite little barrel cactus.
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"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
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Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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AKgringo
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"Kicked off my flip flops, stepped on pop top"
Jimmy Buffet
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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shari
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I just thought it was kinda cool as a rusting heap of cans provided me with a cool story about the history of our village....there is always more than
meets the eye eh!
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Ateo
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Dig it. I may need to come down and do some archaeological work. I bet we could piece together entire people's lives by the stuff dumped/buried
there!!
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BajaBlanca
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that is a lot of cans! a lot of stories!
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bajabuddha
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Another few hundred years or so, we'll call it a 'midden'. True story. Only Grandma ain't buried in it like a few other older ones I know of....
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shari
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In San Roque, the families used to just throw their garbage over the side of the hill next to their houses into the arroyo. I have actually seen
people still do this! Sometimes Juan and I would pick around down there and he would find stuff from his childhood...he has his brothers old baby shoe
in his truck still!
a question...would metal junk collectors be able to cash in on rusty cans like these?
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rts551
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sure Shari...but only for their scrap metal (non-aluminum) by weight value.
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Quote: Originally posted by shari  | In San Roque, the families used to just throw their garbage over the side of the hill next to their houses into the arroyo. I have actually seen
people still do this! Sometimes Juan and I would pick around down there and he would find stuff from his childhood...he has his brothers old baby shoe
in his truck still!
a question...would metal junk collectors be able to cash in on rusty cans like these? |
In Southeast Utah we called that "Navajo Recycling"... toss it in the wash and let The Great Spirit do the rest. From lower San Jan River arm of Lake
Bowell is a gorgeous hike up Moonwater Wash... sheer canyon walls for miles, and the farther towards the top you got, the more human detritus you'd
encounter.
Far's your question of recycling, I doubt that material would be viable for recycling, and if so, wouldn't bring as much dinero as something like
aluminum..... that, coupled with how far it would have to be transported for cashing in on (at least Vizcaino or Guerrero) it'd be more for gas than
gain. I'd recommend a) it's just part of 'days-gone-by' as a curiosity, or b) 4 hours on a backhoe w/ a few rakes, and problem solved.
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All cans, Shari? No bottles?
It is interesting and the more remote and older the better!
I need to get down in that area....one of the larger pieces of Baja I have not been in.... South of Bahia Tortugas south to north Isla Magdalena along
the Pacific coast is an area I have not seen at all. Big chunk of Baja I need to see.
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I hear that all the time from ole baja travelers..before it was the road from hell so not many people entered but now that it is all paved...we are
seeing folks like you Fatboy who always meant to explore this area. I get to hear some pretty good yarns about their old baja experiences!
Now it is so easy to access that many baja aficionados come in to stay here instead of GN! So see ya soon for a cold one amigo!
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scrap metal was paying 200 a ton or better in Chicago don't know where you would take it to in Baja.
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Mostly rust,little metal left...no value
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...kin'ee like us, eh? A little metal left.... 
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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| Quote: Originally posted by shari | In San Roque, the families used to just throw their garbage over the side of the hill next to their houses into the arroyo. I have actually seen
people still do this! Sometimes Juan and I would pick around down there and he would find stuff from his childhood...he has his brothers old baby shoe
in his truck still!
a question...would metal junk collectors be able to cash in on rusty cans like these? |
Am I correct in assuming that Juan's family. Arce, is part of the ejido that stretches South for many miles? I ask, because we came upon Arce clan
down in Punta Abreojos. Thanks.
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Well that is a bummer for me.....I was hoping for something like the drive north from Santa Rosaliita north along the pacific which I have done a few
times now....oh well still want to do it....
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