BajaNomad - WATER CROSSINGS IN BAJA

WATER CROSSINGS IN BAJA

BAJACAT - 8-31-2008 at 09:38 PM

Nomads can you guys & gals share your Baja water crossings with us..We find this most need liquid all over Baja,no matter where you go, underground,above ground.
This water dictated where a Mission was to be build...

I will go firts

joel - 8-31-2008 at 11:54 PM

This was after John in 2006. This was the shallower arroyo to be crossed. We turned back when we got to the deeper one.

[Edited on 9-1-2008 by joel]

motoged - 9-1-2008 at 12:10 AM

Hmmmmm....

...not a big splash, but he did a good crash in the silt further down the San Raymundo wash...

Rancho Naranja Road...

And a hazardous water crossing in Ensenada....crossing the street to a primo taco stand...

Some other water hazard on the way home (south of Redding)..

And a warning at least...

and the wreck....

tadaaa......

here's a water crossing of another kind.

capt. mike - 9-1-2008 at 07:11 AM

82 nautical miles guaymas to mulege. 37 minutes of arse pucker with engine on "auto rough" the whole way.

BAJACAT - 9-1-2008 at 08:45 AM

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Originally posted by capt. mike
82 nautical miles guaymas to mulege. 37 minutes of arse pucker with engine on "auto rough" the whole way.

You are right Capt mike, I wasn't clear on what type of vehicle,so every body is welcome,bikes ,planes,cars,burros ect ect...

BAJACAT - 9-1-2008 at 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by joel
This was after John in 2006. This was the shallower arroyo to be crossed. We turned back when we got to the deeper one.

[Edited on 9-1-2008 by joel]

Joel, for your next trip you need to by a snorkel..for your truck..

ps.COOL PICTURES GUYS KEEP THEM COMING..

tripledigitken - 9-1-2008 at 08:49 AM

February rains this year made dry river beds water crossings, and a good excuse for a picnic!

Ken

BAJACAT - 9-1-2008 at 08:59 AM

3digitkeen,where is that arroyo at , it looks like Santo Domingo

Agua Caliente Canyon - Valle Chico Feb 06

bajalou - 9-1-2008 at 09:45 AM

El Camote - remember this one---

Both are Bruce and Betty

Some one should have got one of me that day :lol:

[Edited on 9-1-2008 by bajalou]

vacaenbaja - 9-1-2008 at 11:25 AM

Come on 0ladulce You have to have picures of some of the
crossings of the floods around 1992.

tripledigitken - 9-2-2008 at 08:35 AM

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Originally posted by BAJACAT
3digitkeen,where is that arroyo at , it looks like Santo Domingo

Good eye Bajacat, the most water I have ever seen in that arroyo!

Ken

Mulegena - 9-2-2008 at 09:07 AM

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...I wasn't clear on what type of vehicle,so every body is welcome,bikes ,planes,cars,burros ect ect...

Haven't any pictures of the actual event because it was pitch black dark and raining, BUT...

my most memorabale "water crossing" was waking up in the middle of the night during Hurricane John because the dog had jumped onto the bed because the river was coming in the house and swimming out of the house and climbing up to the highway only to jump back into the water because there were still people trapped in their homes... yep, that was it.

Mexitron - 9-2-2008 at 06:13 PM

The little Rio San Telmo got us in the 1993 El Nino--took a Toyota tied to a tractor to pull us out:

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TMW - 9-2-2008 at 06:26 PM

Wow, Joel that's a good one. After the SF250 race in 95 my brother and I went up the Compadre trail. North of the indian village out of Ojos Negros there is a water crossing. A double crossing as there is like an island in the middle. It had been raining before we got there and with my brother driving we went thru the first section onto the middle island and the second half the water was rushing madly with a full size Ford PU nose down against a tree with water half way up. It scared the crap out of us and we turned tail and went back. As we cross over the same section we had just come across the water was now over the hood of my 93 Toyota PU. We made it OK and became much wiser about water crossings. A friend was following us in his van, he had stopped and after watching us he said "I don't know what you're smoking but I want some".

David K - 9-3-2008 at 12:15 AM

Not a lot of water, but in Baja... that's what is there!

The Calamajue river, 1979... This was the main gulf side route (Hwy. 5) until about 1983 when the graded road between Laguna Chapala and (today's) Coco's Corner was built.

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David K - 9-3-2008 at 12:20 AM

Flash flood, Arroyo Matomi... a couple of miles downstream from the rancho and waterfall...

I crossed it okay trying to drive in only to find a bigger crossing that I didn't attempt... This was driving back out, and my little 4WD Subaru got stuck in the wet sand as the water kept rising! Dec. '78... Before the water entered the doors, it came to me to deflate the tires, it was sand afterall... and I was able to drive out before the Matomi River consumed my Subaru and left me stranded in a most remote point in Baja!

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BAJACAT - 10-31-2008 at 08:44 PM

bump

1982 Baja 1K

LaTijereta - 11-1-2008 at 08:33 AM

[Edited on 11-1-2008 by LaTijereta]

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Katiejay99 - 11-1-2008 at 09:10 AM

Here are a couple of pics just after hurricane Juliette in 2001 - the Ford F150 is my truck. - I didn't make it

[Edited on 11-1-2008 by Katiejay99]

Katiejay99 - 11-1-2008 at 09:26 AM

Here is a water crossing of the Marlin kind..... I call it - "Hold on to that...... PERSON!"

Water crossing

tehag - 11-1-2008 at 09:48 AM

Hurricane John in 2006 made for some interesting crossings.

Early in the storm a car goes up Calle La Pinta.

Day 2 after the storm the first stranded residents wade home to Zarragosa just East of Madero,

Day 3 after the storm the driver and a friend try to figure out what to do after a failed crossing of Arroyo Zarragosa on Highway 1. The truck is about 100 yards West of the highway. The driver had some injured ribs.

"Green Valley" near Coco's Corner

Ken Cooke - 11-1-2008 at 11:49 AM

"Green Valley" continued...

Ken Cooke - 11-1-2008 at 11:52 AM