Funny Puertocitos Story

This is a trip report posted on Bloodydecks. I thought some of you might appreciate it.


Name: steve
Vessel: none
Location: lakewood,co.
Jobwn glass shop
Posts: 157 scared to death in Baja

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Not sure if this has ever happened to anyone else but it scared the living chit out of my wife and myself. We crossed at Mexicali last Monday morning for a quick trip down to Gonzaga, decided to camp by the old stone ruins where the highway ends south of Peurtocitos. Great place, beautiful, remote, easy access to the beach. We made camp, hiked around, ate dinner, made a fire, enjoyed the peaceful super quiet feeling that comes with camping in Baja, and went to sleep in the van about 9:00. Everything was fantastic. Well at a quarter to three in the morning, the stone cold dead silence that is Baja was broken by the screaming sound of a very large helicopter flying super low over our van with absolutely no lights whatsoever. We could not see anything. Sucker passed over us at about 100 feet, then it was gone. Silence again, scared the wits out of us. Just when we think we are recovering, here comes the son of a b-tch again. Don't know how you So Cal guys react to this chit but we're from Colorado and we were SCARED. The damn thing was huge, must have been a Huey or something, Still could not see anything, no lights anywhere, just helicopter noise to the max, then the flocker gets louder and louder, it's going to land on us. My God, what a helpless feeling. When it got right next to us at only 20 feet elevation, they hit us with these massive spotlights, blowing our campsite to hell and putting us way over the edge. Must of scared them also to see a blonde woman and an old man looking up at them. In a few moments, the light went out, the helicopter rose up and flew away, leaving us to listen to our hearts pounding, feeling like they were jumping out of our chests. I've never felt so helpless. Took 2 hours for the adreniline to go away. Scared us 2 old farts to death almost. The rest of the trip was uneventful, went to Gonzaga, saw Burt and talked to him for a while, he's doin great. Stayed at Papa Fernandas, right on the beach, which we had to ourselves, caught a bunch of bay bass, sculpin, and a few other critters from the shore and explored around for a few days then we blazed back to the states. Another great Baja experience but we could have done without the terror that that we felt that night. The folks down there said it was the "good guys" cause the 'bad guys' don't have helicopters. Really, I said, they only have submarines? I think they have whatever they want! This was one Baja experience we will NEVER, EVER, forget

[Edited on 12-14-2010 by rdrrm8e]

Puertocitos
Peurtocitos
Papa Fernandas

It was the Mexican Spelling Police!
PUERTECITOS
PAPA FERNANDEZ'

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Originally posted by David K Puertocitos Peurtocitos Papa Fernandas It was the Mexican Spelling Police! PUERTECITOS PAPA FERNANDEZ'

While on Shell Island we have had a fly over a couple times by it... never a slow down or hover to check us out... I think the silver Toyota is our pass card???

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Originally posted by sanquintinsince73 Quote: Originally posted by David K Puertocitos Peurtocitos Papa Fernandas It was the Mexican Spelling Police! PUERTECITOS PAPA FERNANDEZ'

You really want me to start taking pics of road signs again...? Really...? Really....?

Oh, I am sure that there are even road signs mis-spelled... no doubt about it. I think even the El Vergel delgado station has Puertecitos mis-spelled.

At the Rancho Santa Ynez (Ines) driveway are both spellings. Ines is technically correct, but the ranch owner prefered Ynez. She and the person she passed it to no longer own it, so not sure what the new owner likes.
You will also see these spellings in books, maps or Nomad: Ynes, Inez, Innes, etc.

My buddy owns a house in san felipe. One day the helicopter is hovering right above for several seconds. We come from inside to see whats up. Moments later they fly off giving us the thumbs up. As soon as they leave his wife stands up from the on- the- roof deck with her bathing suit top in her hand.......

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Originally posted by honda tom My buddy owns a house in san felipe. One day the helicopter is hovering right above for several seconds. We come from inside to see whats up. Moments later they fly off giving us the thumbs up. As soon as they leave his wife stands up from the on- the- roof deck with her bathing suit top in her hand.......

No DavidK.....

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Originally posted by David K While on Shell Island we have had a fly over a couple times by it... never a slow down or hover to check us out... I think the silver Toyota is our pass card???

With all the damn helicopters(black ones, red ones, Navy, Army, etc) flying around the San Felipe area lately they're gonna need a full time air traffic controller in the area.

Photos???

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Originally posted by honda tom My buddy owns a house in san felipe. One day the helicopter is hovering right above for several seconds. We come from inside to see whats up. Moments later they fly off giving us the thumbs up. As soon as they leave his wife stands up from the on- the- roof deck with her bathing suit top in her hand.......

Thank you Frank... my spelling help is good for Baja place names only... I am no good at the rest of the words in the world, plus my typing sucks!