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Short final, landing to the north, Punta San Francisquito, circa 1980

Ken Bondy - 2-19-2015 at 06:44 PM

One of my old diving friends told me, decades ago, that when we are too old to dive we will just sit around all day going through our pictures. It's starting to happen.....

jbcoug - 2-19-2015 at 07:08 PM

Aren't you glad you have those memories to recall?

Ken Bondy - 2-19-2015 at 07:25 PM

Quote: Originally posted by jbcoug  
Aren't you glad you have those memories to recall?


YES! I wasn't complaining.... Too much :lol:

Ateo - 2-19-2015 at 07:40 PM

Cool shot. Yep, we are all lucky to even have been born. To experience flying in plane is something only a slight fraction of humans have ever experienced. I'm putting a great spin on not diving as much as you used to!

StuckSucks - 2-19-2015 at 07:56 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Ken Bondy  



Google Earth, Punta San Francisquito, circa 2009 with almost no buildings along the playa

Barry A. - 2-19-2015 at 09:02 PM

I believe that most of the buildings/structures are still there-----just really hard to see in StuckSucks second picture. Some do seem to be missing, however, as I look at it in detail.

Barry

Ken Bondy - 2-19-2015 at 09:17 PM

I think the buildings start just off the right edge of StuckSucks' image. His shows the west runway, I was landing on the east runway. You can see that in the Google Earth plan view.

Landing 2008 video

Stickers - 2-19-2015 at 09:54 PM

Ken, here is the approach and landing, about 2008. The buildings were there just messy and falling apart.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wwgFQWQ-ZY



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Ken Bondy - 2-19-2015 at 10:43 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Ateo  
Cool shot. Yep, we are all lucky to even have been born. To experience flying in plane is something only a slight fraction of humans have ever experienced. I'm putting a great spin on not diving as much as you used to!


Greatly appreciate the spin Ateo - it helps a little :lol:

StuckSucks - 2-20-2015 at 10:02 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Ken Bondy  
I think the buildings start just off the right edge of StuckSucks' image. His shows the west runway, I was landing on the east runway. You can see that in the Google Earth plan view.


Oops! Sorry about the runway incursion.

Tomas Tierra - 2-20-2015 at 10:27 AM

Ken,
Did you ever see your elusive Black Sea Bass??


TT

Vince - 2-20-2015 at 10:42 AM

Agree, buildings more to the east of the second photo. I came in by boat from Sonora and stayed there in the late 1960's and it was fairly new. Great food and good palapa accommodations.

David K - 2-20-2015 at 10:57 AM

In the Google Earth, you can see the darkness of the old asphalt landing strip that was just west of the dry lake bed strip. Ken used the dry lake and StuckSucks is approaching the blacktop.

Skipjack Joe - 2-20-2015 at 11:19 AM

Why don't images come up when I click on those icons on the beach?

[Edited on 2-20-2015 by Skipjack Joe]

Ken Bondy - 2-20-2015 at 01:33 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Tomas Tierra  
Ken,
Did you ever see your elusive Black Sea Bass??


TT


Still on my bucket list Tomas. I might try one more time this year but it's likely to stay on the list forever :)

David K - 2-20-2015 at 02:01 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Skipjack Joe  
Why don't images come up when I click on those icons on the beach?

[Edited on 2-20-2015 by Skipjack Joe]


Because that is not connected to Google Earth, but simply an image saved from Google Earth. Go to Google Earth, zoom into San Francisquito, and click there.

I have since figured out how to remove the silly blue squares!

capt. mike - 2-20-2015 at 02:21 PM

best place in Baja.....or used to be!! my 1st landing there 1980 too.

msteve1014 - 2-20-2015 at 03:09 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Ken Bondy  
Quote: Originally posted by Tomas Tierra  
Ken,
Did you ever see your elusive Black Sea Bass??


TT


Still on my bucket list Tomas. I might try one more time this year but it's likely to stay on the list forever :)


Come to La Bocana. My neighbor, the abalone diver keeps giving me #s where he saw mero and garopa that could swallow him whole. I keep feeding them jigs and macs. I can only boat the smaller ones.

Skipjack Joe - 2-20-2015 at 03:15 PM

I saw a special on diving at Solomon Islands, Ken. That would be a perfect place to extend your diving passion. Warm water and a plethora of sea life. I would imagine that you could enjoy it all with just mask and fins.

Floatflyer - 2-20-2015 at 03:15 PM

Not changing the topic, BUT, how did you take your old pictures and get them to post? I have albums and albums of pictures taken on various trips but since the digital age, they are put away in the closet till some poor soul comes by and has a couple of c-cktails, then-tee-hee! I only have pictues of one of my 4 planes and I loved them all!!

motoged - 2-20-2015 at 03:16 PM

Quote: Originally posted by capt. mike  
best place in Baja.....or used to be!!.


YES !!!!

Ken Bondy - 2-20-2015 at 03:38 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Floatflyer  
Not changing the topic, BUT, how did you take your old pictures and get them to post? I have albums and albums of pictures taken on various trips but since the digital age, they are put away in the closet till some poor soul comes by and has a couple of c-cktails, then-tee-hee! I only have pictues of one of my 4 planes and I loved them all!!


I scanned them at 600 dpi with a Canon flatbed scanner. These are all scans of either 4x6 or 3x5 prints.

[Edited on 2-20-2015 by Ken Bondy]

Ken Bondy - 2-20-2015 at 04:22 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Skipjack Joe  
I saw a special on diving at Solomon Islands, Ken. That would be a perfect place to extend your diving passion. Warm water and a plethora of sea life. I would imagine that you could enjoy it all with just mask and fins.

Been there Igor, one of my best trips! http://www.kenbondy.com/solomons.htm