Today I met a guy who will be selling lots and homes in our new Cabo Riviera Marina/Hotel/Golf project in La Ribera. I’m sure I’m not the only gringo
here who has had major misgivings about the project and all the changes it will bring. With U.S., Mexico and world wide problems to slow and hamper
these kinds of mega resort projects I know it will take years before we see the completed complex in all its glory.
Since I’m up there in age I’ve been thinking perhaps I won’t live long enough to be bothered by the changes. Meeting this guy today brought me slam,
bam up to the reality that I might still be around when it happens and that it is gonna happen, with or without me.
Might not be so bad if I can just learn to adjust. In fact, might not be bad at all. If I look into my little crystal ball I may see how I might fit
into the scheme of the thing and gain some comfort from it.
Picture, if you will, me in my future grizzled state looking pointedly rustic but engaging, seated on a plush stool at the bar in the Ebony room of
the Hotel Southsea on the Marina Cabo Riviera. I have the attire necessary to feel comfortable at the bar – cannot really expect the hotel will have
the international sophistication that would allow me to pay the bar tender for the chair as is customary in Manaco, Las Vegas, New York and other
civilized locales where hookers and other tradespeople wait for customers. I appear to be studying, reading something but I’m really just waiting for
my next victim; an English capable European or Scandinavian who has a rich but thirsty look about him, approaching the bar from the salon.
He sits down and orders a $22 dollar margarita, smiles curiously at me and glances casually at my reading material. It does look odd, attractive and
odd – a book bound all around in polished bamboo (got the idea from JR). I am signing copies for buyers, friends. It is my little book of tropical
stories titled La Ribera Lies. It is for sale in the hotel gift shop for $82 dollars.
While I’m impatiently waiting for the gift shop sales to begin to pay off I’m hoping only for a chance that my barmate might offer a friendship drink,
an $18 dollar Purser’s Painkiller for which I admit a penchant bordering on a craving.
My new friend will be paid for his generosity and friendship when I regale him with tales of early Baja California; remembrances of having to help
“The Duke”, John Wayne, bring in a marlin because he just didn’t have the stamina to finish the fight. The time I saved that Hemmingway fellow from
drowning in the pool at the Buena Vista, slapping that old fool Steinbeck right off his chair at the bar, burying the last Pericu Indian way up in San
Dionysio canyon, almost losing my hand trying to land a 30 foot manta ray.
I see a couple of two hour episodes per week (two Painkillers long) to break up my otherwise busy schedule.
Yes, I think I’m beginning to like the idea of the new marina.
[Edited on 7-23-2008 by Osprey]flyfishinPam - 7-22-2008 at 03:26 PM
I think the changes will be slow in coming. The US economy looks like its taking a major chit they won't have anyone to sell to. Canadians are
faring better but there aren't very many of them and we're a bit too far from europa. so there you have it no worry just let them keep talking they
will talk themselves into destruction promise themselves enough rope to hang themselves with, for instance we're watching it happen up here now flyfishinPam - 7-22-2008 at 03:29 PM
geeze i was looking at this so fast i responded but then i looked again and you're telling a lounge lizard story, maybe i gotta get out more often
Osprey - 7-22-2008 at 03:39 PM
Lounge iguanagnukid - 7-22-2008 at 04:04 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by Osprey
Lounge iguana
I'll bite.
Boaters have long complained about the distance to safe harbor from Los Frailles to Bahia de los Muertos. The distance seems short until you have been
caught passing the beautiful region, unprepared in high wind which can occur all Fall/Winter/Spring and at times from opposite directions in the
Summer.
Boating in the region is awesome, some of the best fishing in the world so it seems fitting that a Marina would help boaters and help the region to
serve boaters.
But, for those who have seen the conditions there, the idea that La Ribera will be the destination for boats brings on a shudder and a gulp. The on
shore winds kick up a swell as high as you can imagine, up to 20feet and the breeze makes it impossible to open shore facing windows much of the time.
Buena Vista is slightly protected by its cove and is offers a respite but I can not imagine la Ribera providing anything resembling cover from the
wind. I can just hear the non-stop whistling of stays and loose sheets. Hats blowing off heads to land in the nearby unused pool.
Yet truly I hope for the best, I find Rancho Leonero, La Ribera and Punta Colorado to be great for windsurfing and kitesurfing. I would love to find a
successful Marina there, but knowing Mexico and knowing the region I can see it will be a rough passage and there will be more than a few boats that
do not make the harbor entrance.
[Edited on 7-22-2008 by gnukid]gibson - 7-22-2008 at 04:09 PM
La Ribera will remain the wind blown dust bowl we've always loved (just ask Mr La Trinadad ). You have nothing to worry about and we'll always appreciate the waves for kiting!! viva la ribera cabrones!!!
). You have nothing to worry about and we'll always appreciate the waves for kiting!! viva la ribera cabrones!!!