David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:33 PM
See our shadow? The water streams through here to the waterfall (in wet weather)...
(continued from Part 1 at: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=12896 )
[Edited on 9-20-2005 by David K]
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:33 PM
Cardon growing in a bowl...
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:34 PM
Baja Angel finds a hiding place!
[Edited on 9-20-2005 by David K]
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:36 PM
View across to the other side...
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:40 PM
more...
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:41 PM
On a ledge on the west side...
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:42 PM
Looking back towards the top... Many surfaces covered in petros... not seen well in these photos...
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:44 PM
Under boulders that create cielings...
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:44 PM
more...
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:45 PM
hmmm???
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:46 PM
more under the big boulder, that makes a nice meeting room...
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:47 PM
more...
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:48 PM
Fossils too!
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:49 PM
Can you say 'rock lobster'?
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:50 PM
See the claws?
David K - 9-19-2005 at 06:56 PM
Las Pintas is a great place... it will amaze you...
My first visit was in July, 2000 with Lorenzo de Baja: http://www.vivabaja.com/davidlorenzo/dlpage2.html
My second visit was with amigos attending M's BBBB-1, in the Viva Baja Van: http://www.vivabaja.com/van1/page4.html
Hope you enjoyed the tour! Remember, the camera only captures a tiny bit... there always is much more to see, plus the experience of being in a magic
place like this cannot be duplicated on the Internet! David
Marie-Rose - 9-19-2005 at 07:16 PM
Thanks David, great pics!! Love the one with the shadows!
lOOk's like a Rocky Baja Romance...
Mexray - 9-19-2005 at 08:00 PM
...great stuff as always - got to git' down, over and around there to take a peek!
bajablue - 9-19-2005 at 09:17 PM
DK,
amazing photos and info, as always.. That you for sharing the experience and Happy Birthday!!
David K - 9-19-2005 at 09:45 PM
Thank you my friends! Remember, every dirt road in Baja goes 'somewhere' (usually somewhere interesting)!
When you come to a fork in the road... TAKE IT!
Where the road ends, put on your boots!
El Rosario has so many great places nearby! I am just begining to scartch the surface!
Tucker - 9-19-2005 at 09:55 PM
I've heard that if you are asked where a road "goes". The answer should always be "nowhere, it stays right there".
David K - 9-19-2005 at 10:08 PM
Neal Johns says: "If you come to a fork in the road and don't take it, God will get you!"
I would much rather have Baja Nomads who love the land be regular visitors there and showing the value of preserving the site, then the locals (?) who
keep defacing these historic places with their grafitti thinking nobody cares or it is not important enough to leave alone.
[Edited on 9-20-2005 by David K]
Bob H - 9-20-2005 at 09:38 AM
This is great stuff David. No longer will most of us think of just blowing through the El Rosario area. We've been passing through, usually without
stopping (except for gas) for years.
Thanks again.
Bob H
David K - 9-20-2005 at 09:51 AM
Yup, it is fun to explore and find cool stuff or to see for yourself what you have read about in books or on the Internet... Here is the view north
from a high point on the Punta San Carlos graded road, on our way back to Baja Cactus Motel... Oh, by the way... I have some more photos from Sunday
when we drove to the beach near El Socorro, on our way home... stay tuned!
David K - 9-20-2005 at 09:52 AM
and...
Tomas Tierra - 10-3-2005 at 08:53 AM
DK...
Question: on the way to Las Pintas, when you make the left turn out of arroyo san fernando on the final stretch to the site. Was there a big washout
there in the mesquite patch, and how was the transit across that area..Whaen I was there in feb 04 we had to stop there and walk the 1.8 miles in.
Would have tried it but was very loaded ( so was my truck:lol
and with wife and
three year old decided not to.. just curious..
Also, did you see any heavy machinery out there?? in 04 ther was what looked like an oversized log splitter(I'm sure it was something else) maybe a
quarter mile from the site on the left going in.. I feared they were going to try and excavate some of the fossil stone in slabs
.
Great report!! Truly one very cool hidden Baja treasure.. Could you imagine eating those oysters? Some of the fossil shells are bigger than my size
12 flip flops! TT
David K - 10-3-2005 at 05:50 PM
Hi TT,
I was able to drive all the way in, and the part where you turn left, out of Arroyo San Fernando was looking like it was washed out from all that
rain... we were on a newer track winding through the mesquite (read Baja pin stripes) for a 100 ft. then in the original gully road.
No machinery or signs of humans, other than the road, fire pit, and grafitti (sad).
thebajarunner - 10-3-2005 at 06:03 PM
Nice stuff David,
Baja Vida and I need to swing over there next Feb. en route to San Ignacio lagoon.
You better plan to go along this time...
We eat good and have lots of stories you have not yet heard!!
Tomas Tierra - 10-3-2005 at 07:03 PM
DK
I had great luck with Maguire's cleaner wax and a buffing wheel for th pin stripes
David K - 10-3-2005 at 07:31 PM
Thanks 'runner... I really would love to go!
TT... I am trying a light duty polishing rub first (new paint afterall)... but will go to the stronger stuff on the deeper scrstches... But, what
'real Baja rig' doesn't have pin stripes, afterall?
David K - 11-10-2005 at 12:57 PM
Taking advantage of a wet morning here in Oceanside, I made a web page for the Las Pintas visit last September: http://community-2.webtv.net/boojum1/pintas