view from the San Felipe malecon

cloudy, calm day with a front rolling in.......

this food truck had a prior life




pack of beach dogs




while watching this panga along came a group of high school students launching crew/scull boats, or whatever they are called







they covered the length of the bay in short order




someone is taking on the task of repairing/restoring this beautiful old trawler




classic profile this old vessel has






[Edited on 1-31-2013 by tripledigitken]

1968, my first trip to Baja without the parents, and it was San Felipe.

That same beach had the carcases of totuava and turtle shells, and we ate turtle steak at a nearby restaurant.





got my VW stuck in sand south of town................................

back to your regular programing

[Edited on 2-1-2013 by tripledigitken]

I appreciate the photos and the shared memories. Thank you.

I do remember Arnold's. Stayed there with some fishing buddies a long time ago. Had a bank robbery down the street and the robber was hauling a*s down main street with the cops chasing him.
Caught the help at 4 in the morning filling the carafs of "good" water for the rooms with the garden hose.
Never had much luck fishing there, but plenty of fun.

Maybe you guys can help me sharpen a dim memory from my youth. As a kid we went camping on a beach south of SF, and my only memory of the town was just a couple of commercial buildings/shacks all by themselves.
This would have been the early to mid 1960's.
Is that an accurate picture of SF at the time?
Of could my memory be of a small store at a turn somewhere near SF?

As I remember it, there was a rumored nudist resort some undisclosed distance further south. My friend and I rode the wheels off my old Honda step-through looking for it.

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Originally posted by Islandbuilder Maybe you guys can help me sharpen a dim memory from my youth. As a kid we went camping on a beach south of SF, and my only memory of the town was just a couple of commercial buildings/shacks all by themselves. This would have been the early to mid 1960's. Is that an accurate picture of SF at the time? Of could my memory be of a small store at a turn somewhere near SF? As I remember it, there was a rumored nudist resort some undisclosed distance further south. My friend and I rode the wheels off my old Honda step-through looking for it.

Before the chubasco of 1967, the pavement ended at the beach, and the main street that crossed right there was dirt. A gas station was at the end of the highway on the left corner (NW)... The map from Cliff Cross's 1970 guide shows the region... and then the 1962 Gulick map... South of San Felipe the graded road went to Puertecitos where a small gringo village was established. Between San Felipe and near Puertecitos was only 3 campos in the mid 60's: Percebu, Nuevo Mazatlan (Agua de Chale), and Coloradito. The main road was 5 miles west of Nuevo Mazatlan and went through the sulfur mine valley.

Here is San Felipe after the 1967 chubasco, as the main street is paved... in a 1970 Cliff Cross map:

The 1974 Auto Club map (the last year of the large scale of northern Baja maps), San Felipe region:



[Edited on 2-1-2013 by David K]

About 30 years ago