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Land Connection

bajalera - 3-27-2011 at 04:35 PM

Anybody know about how long the strip of land connecting B.C. to the mainland is? (The land itself, not the International Boundary.)

bajalou - 3-27-2011 at 09:26 PM

If you don't call the Colorado River "Land", there isn't a land connection. The river is the border between Baja Calif. And Sonora. Of course it's dry most of the time as the Morales dam near Algodones diverts the water for agriculture in the greater Mexicali valley.

Although it wanders around a lot, as rivers tend to do, it would be around 86 miles from San Luis Rio Colorado to where the river enters a marshy area (when there was water) and another 26 miles or so till it clears Isla Montague.

JESSE - 3-27-2011 at 09:36 PM

Seems to be about a 100k

landyacht318 - 3-27-2011 at 10:06 PM

You're interest in this area coincides with a flurry of small quakes on the San Andreas which runs through it.

mtgoat666 - 3-28-2011 at 06:24 AM

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Originally posted by bajalera
Anybody know about how long the strip of land connecting B.C. to the mainland is? (The land itself, not the International Boundary.)

if you can post your Q on the internet, you can also google up a map and measure for yourself!

longlegsinlapaz - 3-28-2011 at 09:19 AM

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Originally posted by bajalera
Anybody know about how long the strip of land connecting B.C. to the mainland is? (The land itself, not the International Boundary.)

if you can post your Q on the internet, you can also google up a map and measure for yourself!

Goat, if you are lucky enough to live as many decades as Bajalera has, and if you even make it into your 90's, do you think you just MIGHT learn to have a little respect for your elders? Her computing skills weren't learned in her youth, as yours most likely were. :no:

David K - 3-28-2011 at 09:31 AM

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Originally posted by bajalera
Anybody know about how long the strip of land connecting B.C. to the mainland is? (The land itself, not the International Boundary.)

Hi Lee... in a straight line on the map, from San Luis to the gulf (where the mainland (Sonora) is connected to Baja is 57 miles... As Jesse noted, pretty close to 100 km.

If you go along the river bed... with all the twists and turns, I measure it about 70 miles.

[Edited on 3-28-2011 by David K]

baronvonbob - 3-28-2011 at 09:46 AM

Isn't it nice to have people that help! It used to be that way all through the States, but the new breed they just b-tch.

bajalou - 3-28-2011 at 10:03 AM

In measuring, where does the Gulf start and the river end????

fishabductor - 3-28-2011 at 10:04 AM

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Originally posted by baronvonbob
Isn't it nice to have people that help! It used to be that way all through the States, but the new breed they just b-tch.

My guess is that the new breed has a lot more to b-tch about than the previous generations, look at all the stupid laws that are now on the books. You can't do jacksheet in the states anymore, everything is either illegal or closed. Where I grew up in WA damn near all forest access of my youth has been closed off and you can't hardly fish anymore (not that there are any fish to catch anyways)...I live in baja for more than just access to great fish tacos.

I bet there was a whole of b-tchin' going on during the great depression too.

I think my grandparents lived during the golden yrs, even with the depression.

b-tching doesn't mean that people don't help one another, it just means that they are frustrated and need to vent.

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baronvonbob - 3-28-2011 at 10:12 AM

Good Point, where in WA and where in Baja

TMW - 3-28-2011 at 10:26 AM

I don't think there is any more or less bit*hing going on. There is a lot more communications with cable news 24/7, sports radio 24/7, news/talk radio, the internet with news/sports 24/7 and emails, twitter, facebook, youtube, etc. Use to be you read the paper and got a 15 minute TV news in the evening and maybe some radio news. Nows it's everywhere.

But you know something interesting. Go to Baja and shut off all the communication devices for a few days and see how relaxing it can be. When you go home and turn all that stuff back on it's like you never left.

fishabductor - 3-28-2011 at 11:07 AM

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Originally posted by baronvonbob
Good Point, where in WA and where in Baja

Mukilteo,wa and the eastcape, bcs.

baronvonbob - 3-28-2011 at 01:16 PM

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Originally posted by fishabductor

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Originally posted by baronvonbob
Good Point, where in WA and where in Baja

Mukilteo,wa and the eastcape, bcs.

Used to be around Edmonds in my youth

sancho - 3-28-2011 at 01:54 PM

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Originally posted by bajalou
If you don't call the Colorado River "Land", there isn't a land connection.

Good point, Lou, whats left of the Colorado River would serve
as a 'non land connection' with the Mainland as it
trickles into the Cortez, splitting hairs a bit

fishabductor - 3-28-2011 at 02:30 PM

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Good Point, where in WA and where in Baja

Mukilteo,wa and the eastcape, bcs.

Used to be around Edmonds in my youth

My neighbor to the south! We used to walk the railroad tracks to edmonds and then take the bus back home when we were kids.

It sure has changed for the worse these days. I loved it there as a kid. We would walk down the hill to the pier with rods and crabtraps and fish all day/night. When we got cold we would walk over to a Taylor's landing, and get bowls of clam chowder. Our crab bait came from Mcconnels bait/boat house ...both are long gone....what a shame it is.

baronvonbob - 3-28-2011 at 02:55 PM

I apologize I got a little off track on the thread.
I will shut up>

fishabductor - 3-28-2011 at 02:57 PM

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Originally posted by baronvonbob
I apologize I got a little off track on the thread.
I will shut up>

You'll soon realize that about 95% of the threads go off track, sometimes much faster. The thread was basically dead anyhow, before your comment..the question had been answered.

comitan - 3-28-2011 at 03:41 PM

Just blame it all on Dr. SPOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whoa!

Bajahowodd - 3-28-2011 at 04:02 PM

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Good Point, where in WA and where in Baja

Mukilteo,wa and the eastcape, bcs.

We owned a place on Whidbey Island for about ten years and I cannot tell you how many times we took the ferry in and out of Mukilteo. Finally decided that we preferred a more tropical climate. But, geez, it is so beautiful there. Especially when the sun is out. :lol:

Edited for silly spelling errors.

[Edited on 3-28-2011 by Bajahowodd]

[Edited on 3-28-2011 by Bajahowodd]

David K - 3-28-2011 at 04:07 PM

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Originally posted by bajalou
In measuring, where does the Gulf start and the river end????

For my mileages, about 2/3 down Isla Montague.

fishabductor - 3-28-2011 at 04:09 PM

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Originally posted by baronvonbob
Good Point, where in WA and where in Baja

Mukilteo,wa and the eastcape, bcs.

Edited for silly spelling errors.

[Edited on 3-28-2011 by Bajahowodd]

[Edited on 3-28-2011 by Bajahowodd]

I love Whidbey...I am pleased to say it has basically survived what has become of the rest of the puget sound region. We can thank the ferry for that.

..and yes the sun does help. I was just in Muk, 3 weeks ago. It is still beautiful, but just not the same.

[Edited on 3-28-2011 by fishabductor]

baronvonbob - 3-28-2011 at 04:10 PM

Well if everybody else is going to babble , I will join in,

I used to go down to the Edmonds ferry and the boat house and rent a boat when I was 12, row around and try to get rock fish, now you need a power boat, hell I could not row that far now!!!! At thirteen would take the ferry to Whidbey Island and ride the bicycles around and over to Oak Harbor stay at a friends Aunts house and rent a boat at the boat house and fish their.

Times change and I feel like an antque, afraid to let the grand kids go to a park!

fishabductor - 3-28-2011 at 04:17 PM

The ferry was a great excuse to stay out all night when we were in hs. It quit running at 2am?? so we'd tell the folks we missed the last ferry home, and continue to party it up. I didn't have a curfew, but all my friends did so it was a great excuse for them.

I miss the boathouses they were so cool as a kid, I lived in pacifica, ca for work for a yr and lived on lindamar beach, in one of the boat houses. it was just like being a kid again in the boathouses with lots of people launching 12-14 boats down a slide made of greased wooden poles.

My grandfather kept our commercial fishing boat in a boathouse on steamboat slough, in the offseason. I loved that boathouse too. I just love boats and the ocean.

[Edited on 3-28-2011 by fishabductor]