BajaNomad

La Paz to Ensenada de Muertos (AKA Bahia de Los Suenos) (AKA The Bay of Dreams)

BajaBruno - 9-1-2007 at 05:53 PM

I'm lousy at embedding photos and stuff, so this trip report, including photos of the Giggling Marlin launch ramp, is here:

http://www.bajabruno.com/tripreport.html

Lots of photos, so it loads a little slow on my connection.

BajaNomad - 9-1-2007 at 07:02 PM

I haven't been down there for awhile now.

I like the area quite a bit.

The highway # is 286.

--
Doug

thx Bruno, tell me -

capt. mike - 9-2-2007 at 07:31 AM

how far from the airstrip to the giggling marlin area, i guess on the road?

any signs of the hotel or casas going up yet?

BajaBruno - 9-2-2007 at 07:41 AM

Capt Mike, the airstrip is on the dirt side road to Punta Arena, so I'll guess that is maybe five+ miles from the Giggling Marlin. I didn't see anything that looked like a hotel near the Gig Marlin, but some huge casas were completed and being built all around that area.

Doug, thanks for the info. I'll update the report and hope I don't crash it in the process. What I know about web publishing you could fit in a broken shot glass.

akbear - 9-2-2007 at 10:32 AM

Capt. Mike,

We stoped in The Gig Marlin in June for lunch. We had the Ladies aboard with 3 other boats,14 people total. The new thing to do in Los Barriles.

A lot of big, new homes. This is the site for the Hotel & plans for the for the area south of GM. Hotel & 4or 5 homes already there.

http://www.bahiadelossuenos.com

akbear

akbear - 9-2-2007 at 10:41 AM

Here is another look at plans for Bahai de los Suenos Resort.

http://www.landscapeoffice.com/portfolio/bahia_del_los_sueno...

akbear

[Edited on 9-3-2007 by akbear]

BAJACAT - 9-2-2007 at 10:53 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by BajaBruno
I'm lousy at embedding photos and stuff, so this trip report, including photos of the Giggling Marlin launch ramp, is here:

http://www.bajabruno.com/tripreport.html

Lots of photos, so it loads a little slow on my connection.
Thanks Bajabruno your reports brings me memories,a few years I was in las paz and planned to go to Cabos but I took the wrong turn and end up going in this road to bahia de los suenos.I stop a local and he told me about a road that goes to San antonio over the mountains,he take this road and you will get back to the right road in San Antonio, indee lost in all it was a good trip,thanks for remind me that again.BAJACAT

CaboRon - 9-2-2007 at 03:07 PM

BajaBruno,

Thank's for the trip report. How was the fishing ?

CaboRon

BajaBruno - 9-2-2007 at 04:00 PM

CaboRon, I made that trip a month ago--it took me this long to figure out how to post something on my website! Hahaha! I'm not much of a web author.

I fished the following day and landed one nice striper 4.5NM from the ramp. Nothing after that. It was windy and the sea state was very lumpy. All of the action this summer, however, or what action there has been, has been off the south end of Cerralvo. As we discussed in another thread, I don't want to launch there by myself, so I haven't been able to get down there without a long ride from Pichilingue.

Natalie Ann - 9-2-2007 at 04:58 PM

Oh Christopher,
Thank you for this nice little sojourn to one of my favorite spots, such a beautiful little bahia. This same trip was the last and most memorable of the day trips I took with my dear friend Tucker (a now deceased Nomad) and for that reason your report/photos especially touched my heart. Thank you very much.

Nena

805gregg - 9-2-2007 at 05:27 PM

I was at Bahia De Muertos a couple of weeks ago, there is a hotel about 1 mile from the marlin, rooms $800-$20,000 per nite. I talked to the surveyor he said there would be a golf course, marina and of course houses, cheapest lots $ 350,000 the 2.5 acre lot east of the marlin is 2.5 mil. If you buy land does that give you the right to name the adjacent water?

capt. mike - 9-3-2007 at 08:05 AM

the developer, a partner in the Giggling Marlin Cabo, had his C 206 stolen off that strip at gunpoint last year or the year before.
they were using the plane for routine transport and for shuttling folks from Cabo to preview lots. Guess he had no qualms about forking over the keys with a rifle in his face.

that development will do fine but fliers will want 24/7 security at the strip that far from one's home. Expensive homes and lots - those who can .... will.
after all, the good lots are all but gone at Pescadero and Cabo-Los cabos areas.
many of those buyers and future hotel guests drive biz jets, how convenient not to have to go to Los Cabos! gotta love rarified air.

CaboRon - 9-3-2007 at 08:38 AM

I would not be honest if i said i am not a little more than envious. Ah, to have unlimited spending cash ! :lol::lol:

Hope they can afford securtiy for that airstrip. :bounce:

- CaboRon

comitan - 9-3-2007 at 09:20 AM

Boy do I owe somebody big time, We stayed at Muertos every winter for over ten years, I knew I was living in paradise but I didn't think that expensive.

Pescador - 9-11-2007 at 06:24 PM

Yeah, I wonder if I could go back and pay more for the great camping that used to be. This was one of my favorite spots in the whole world until Gary from the Giggling Marlin stole it.

bajajudy - 9-11-2007 at 06:34 PM

Cat
That road to San Antonio is really interesting with all the stone walls, it kinda looks like Europe. You can still see the rails that carried the goodies from San Antonio to Bahia de Los Muertos(sorry it will never be the bay of dreams to me). It has got to be bad booty to change a name so dramatically!
I am looking for a great photo that I took years ago. It was the first highway sign I ever saw on a dirt road.
Bruno, thanks for the memories
:dudette: