Can anyone tell me where my parents and I are here?
David K - 3-9-2007 at 04:42 PM
The next time, the sand was too deep to back the trailer into the cabaņas...
David K - 3-9-2007 at 04:44 PM
We went for the surf fishing... this was just over a mile up the beach at a shallow bay, we called 'The Lagoon'...
David K - 3-9-2007 at 04:46 PM
A chubasco washed that shrimp boat way into the mud flats behind the lagoon... After we checked it out, our Jeep wouldn't start... Mom was worried!
David K - 3-9-2007 at 04:48 PM
On my mom's lap hamming it up with sunglasses on... in the cabaņa...
David K - 3-9-2007 at 04:50 PM
Right, back then the map still called it Agua de Chale (some maps still do), but Luis renamed it to sound more like a tourist resort!
This was a few years before he planted the trees that make Nuevo Mazatlan the beautiful campground it is now.
Summer 1966, Tijuana to Cabo San Lucas!
David K - 3-9-2007 at 04:52 PM
I am dwarfed by a cardon! Well, I was only 8 1/2!
David K - 3-9-2007 at 04:53 PM
Rancho Buena Vista or Palmas de Cortez? I think we spent a couple days at each (in Los Barriles).
David K - 3-9-2007 at 04:55 PM
Dad helps our fishing guide launch the panga at Cabo San Lucas... This was near the Hacienda... the only hotel in town then!
David K - 3-9-2007 at 04:56 PM
Look familiar?
David K - 3-9-2007 at 04:57 PM
David has a hook up!
See the cape in the distance? We are way out!
David K - 3-9-2007 at 04:58 PM
My first Dorado
Crusoe - 3-9-2007 at 04:59 PM
David.......Thanks.....Wow, do those shots ever bring back some memories.David K - 3-9-2007 at 05:00 PM
The new Mazatlan ferry at La Paz... It took 2 weeks to drive down (800 dirt miles), so we went back via the mainland.
1967 to L.A. Bay, via San Felipe & Gonzaga Bay
David K - 3-9-2007 at 05:02 PM
I think this was in Puertecitos... That Wagoneer took us everywhere!
David K - 3-9-2007 at 05:04 PM
Alfonsina's at Gonzaga Bay... The kids thought my mini bike was cool!
David K - 3-9-2007 at 05:05 PM
Calamajue Canyon... which was the main route south then for 'Hwy. 5'...
David K - 3-9-2007 at 05:17 PM
This was at the ore mill ruins across the canyon from the mission site...
David K - 3-9-2007 at 05:20 PM
Another look at the shrimp boat that washed up behind the lagoon that today is known a Bahia Santa Maria... Over the years it was torn apart...
nothing remains today, perhaps some of the engine?
David K - 3-9-2007 at 05:21 PM
We also surf fished the Pacific side... this was at San Antonio del Mar, west of Colonet.
Ken Bondy - 3-9-2007 at 06:33 PM
Those are fantastic David. Great memories!!
DK - You da Man
Bajachief - 3-9-2007 at 06:49 PM
Thanks for bring back all the old memory photos. I saw all these places much later.
Thank you
BajachiefDavid K - 3-9-2007 at 07:01 PM
De nada guys... It is great to see places we all know and love but from an earlier time in our lives!
Ken, I tried to caprure Baja with a Kodak Instamatic... it's all I had at the time! Thanks for not laughing amigo!zforbes - 3-9-2007 at 07:33 PM
I'm really enjoying your postings on this and the other thread. Seeing your mom in her bathing suit makes me laugh...not at her, but at the getups we
all wore so proudly. Thanks for sharing, David. ZoeCrusoe - 3-9-2007 at 07:49 PM
Hose.....Your conscience got the best of you, great. But..... what a great shot David...... The old black V.W. would make a great add shot for the new
"All we need is drivers" logos for V.W. Your pop was one smart and tough cookie.Thanks DavidRoberto - 3-9-2007 at 09:55 PM
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Originally posted by Hose A
Nuevo Mazatlan
How did you
guess?
[Edited on 3-10-2007 by Roberto]Sallysouth - 3-9-2007 at 09:59 PM
What a great collection of memories David! Your Mom, like mine had a passion for fishing! Gosh, if only I could figure out how to take those old
pictures, some insta-matic some black and white and transfer them, then post them here..... hmmm..Many are damaged, faded.Time for me to go ask the
experts! Bob H - 3-10-2007 at 10:21 AM
David, that was great! Thanks for sharing those old photos. Your parents seem like fantastic parents. You had a great childhood, indeed! And, the
memories you must have of the old days in Baja.... wow! 40+ years of changes.... unreal.
Bob HDavid K - 3-10-2007 at 10:39 AM
yah... thanks Bob... I now weigh more than my dad, and he was a big guy! Too many tacos at El Yaqui, perhaps?
I am really fortunate to have parents who loved the outdoors, fishing, jeepin', backcountry Baja, and including me in their travels!
What is also special about them, is that they encouraged my 'hobby' of rock collecting, drawing maps, learing how to (four wheel) drive, writing
guidebooks... Yup, they were proud of me and I gave them no problems as a teenager!
Look, 40 years later, Baja fever is still raging in my blood... What a fantastic place that it continues to offer new things to explore and see.
As much 'Baja' is in me already, there is still much more Baja I have yet to experience!
Enthusiasm
djh - 3-10-2007 at 04:26 PM
MUCH easier now to understand David's enthusiasm, helpfulness to fellow nomads, and general love of all things Baja ! !
You ARE lucky to have adventuring folks, DK ! !
My first trip across the border wasn't till 74, and I was out on my own !
Speaking of shaggy haired.... ! !Bob H - 3-10-2007 at 08:22 PM
And, to think you did all of that with NO GPS!
Bob HVon - 3-11-2007 at 10:32 AM
Awesome pics David Thanks for sharing my mom has some from La Barca in the 60s too I ll try to post them up....Thanks again, so cool man......Mexitron - 3-11-2007 at 10:38 AM
Nice pics...thanks DK! My old photos are a Kodak Instamatic too...gotta love it!David K - 3-11-2007 at 10:41 AM
Thanks guys!
I added a couple more to the 30+/- years ago photo thread...Bajafun777 - 3-11-2007 at 02:44 PM
David K, looking at those photos really brought back memories as to how San Felipe went from that small fishing village to the "give me your tourist
dollars" type of town. Now, even jthe early 80s remember when the Colorado River water was on both sides of the road going down and you could buy the
fresh water shrimp for making tacos??? I know you do and man were they great eating. Even Rosarito only had about a third of the population they do
now in the early 1970s and that doesn't seem so long ago typing this in. Later and thanks for sharing the photos=====bajafun777David K - 3-11-2007 at 10:03 PM
Yes, the flooding of the lower Laguna Salada basin happened after a failed scheme to channel Colorado River water into the upper Laguna Salada to
create a 'Mexican' Salton Sea... Around 1977 (?).
The Colorado really flowed the following year and the levee was breached flooding that entire area that Hwy 5. crosses. Campo Rio Hardy and Rio del
Mayor were flooded out...
The highway roadbed was so heavily undermined and melted/ warped, that the current wider causeway was constructed...capitolkat - 3-12-2007 at 09:21 AM
David-- thanks buddy-- It's really great of you to share your memories. I had some similar vintage photos of Los Cabos, Ensenada, San Quintin- but
alas a divorce has ways of hurting in places you didn't know you had-- "those old photos- I threw them out, --smirk inserted here"Vince - 3-12-2007 at 11:26 AM
Looks like those trips with your parents infected you with the Baja Bug like it did to me in the 40's and 50's. VinceDavid K - 3-12-2007 at 08:46 PM
Vince, or anyone else who has photos of Baja BEFORE Hwy. 1 was bulit/ paved between Colonet and Constitucion, it would be great to see!
If you haven't figured how to post photos on Nomad, I will help or email the images to me to post for you!
I like sharing the memories and relating the difference between the Baja of then to the Baja of now (or since Dec., 1973)...
