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Waterfalls of Sand- Hurricane Fausto

oladulce - 12-25-2007 at 02:20 AM

***Our trusty video camera finally pooped out and the new one has a hard drive storage rather than the older digital video tapes. BigWooo has been spending time lately converting all our old vacation and trip footage from tape to DVD. I dusted off some of his video creations and had forgotten how good some of them are.

It seems a shame to have them sitting on a shelf when the contents might be interesting to other Baja nuts, so I thought I'd share a few. Hope you find them entertaining.***

Waterfalls of Sand

Hurricane Fausto crossed over the Baja peninsula at Todos Santos in Sept 1996. We were on the outskirts of the storm at Punta Pequeña/ San Juanico, and captured the progression of the wind and weather and some interesting local phenomena.

Watch for the dreaded "waterfalls of sand " that occur when the wind blows off the dunes .

[Edited on 1-7-2008 by oladulce]

Bob H - 12-25-2007 at 10:07 AM

That was just GREAT! Thanks.
Bob H

oladulce - 12-25-2007 at 10:44 AM

Glad you liked it Bob.

What he wasn't able to capture during the storm were the truck-sized balls of sea-foam that would blow up and on to the bluff, then roll off in to the desert like giant tumbleweeds!

Mexitron - 12-25-2007 at 07:50 PM

Cool video--nice to see Scorpion a step back in time too!