David K
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Oct. 2016 Baja Bound Article: The Other Side of Concepcion Bay
The new newsletter has just gone out and features an article about our adventure over on the Concepcion peninsula, last month:
https://www.bajabound.com/bajaadventures/bajatravel/bahia_co...
One of the photos in the article is from the 1967 book by Erle Stanley Gardner who wrote about their exploring the Concepcion peninsula in 1966...
Not realizing it at the time, but I got a photo from nearly the same spot, only 50 years later!:
Here is our GPS track of the drive up Arroyo los Pintados then crossing over to Arroyo Tres Marias and back out:
That short left fork track was in the correct arroyo for the painted cliff... but we didn't know it at the time, and turned around and ended up going
over to the next arroyo... which still was fascinating!
More photos in my Sept. 2016 trip report!
[Edited on 4-14-2021 by David K]
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rts551
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Oh OH, water is higher in your photo than the earlier one.
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David K
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Yes, the moon is still there creating high and low tides on earth. Note the high tide berm on the left edge in 1966 going to the center of the shrubs
is matched in 2016. 
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BajaBlanca
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What luck to get the same shot! Awesome that it is so unchanged.
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David K
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Yes, no kidding it was a coincidence for sure!
Geoff asked me to send some of the Erle Stanley Gardner photos to compliment my historical section of the article. I spotted the image of the ATVs on
that beach and thought I saw the same beach in one of my photos.
If you recall, I found another place that one of the Gardner expeditions went to, in 1966... in 2009:
The letters are matching rocks, 43 years apart!
I am standing about 5 feet further away, and to the right from where Bruce stood. Choral Pepper took the photo in February 1966 and Baja Angel took
the 2009 photo on New Years weekend.
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David K
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I wonder if many Nomads have modern Baja photos to compare with photos from 40 or more years ago? Might make a cool thread?
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Good stuff DK. Old vs new is fun to look at and surprising it is so similar considering all the rain and winds over the years.
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David K
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Indeed it is Tom... That the cardon is so little changed and the two ocotillos and one tree in the wall photos are just bigger. What was there 200
years ago, other trees and ocotillos that died and dissolved into dust?
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