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Loreto in all its splendor!

Mariz - 10-9-2015 at 12:26 PM

Chris has been shooting the beautiful landscapes around our place. Hope you enjoy the photos!







SFandH - 10-9-2015 at 12:28 PM

Wow. I like the second one the best.

blackwolfmt - 10-9-2015 at 12:54 PM

great pics looks pretty green down there

sargentodiaz - 10-9-2015 at 01:15 PM

I've extensively studied the area and these pictures are absolutely the opposite of everything I've read about the area.

Loreto in the 1700s was a gathering of stone, sun-dried brick, and wattle structures where the Jesuits, their soldiers, and the converted Indians struggled to scratch a living out of barren soil. Little decent grazing for the livestock and the carpenters had to travel for day in order to cut wood straight enough to build they creaky launches.

I wonder what those pioneers would think of their capitol now.

TMW - 10-9-2015 at 02:56 PM

Beautiful pictures for sure, thanks.

David K - 10-9-2015 at 03:21 PM

Beautiful indeed! Thank you for sharing...

Bajahowodd - 10-9-2015 at 04:49 PM

No question that Loreto is an extremely picturesque area. And I wonder how it became major failure for Fonatur.

major failure

captkw - 10-9-2015 at 04:52 PM

Fonatur can not manage a roll of T.P. !!:biggrin:

BigBearRider - 10-9-2015 at 05:11 PM

I second the vote for the second pic.

David K - 10-9-2015 at 05:39 PM

Quote: Originally posted by sargentodiaz  
I've extensively studied the area and these pictures are absolutely the opposite of everything I've read about the area.

Loreto in the 1700s was a gathering of stone, sun-dried brick, and wattle structures where the Jesuits, their soldiers, and the converted Indians struggled to scratch a living out of barren soil. Little decent grazing for the livestock and the carpenters had to travel for day in order to cut wood straight enough to build they creaky launches.

I wonder what those pioneers would think of their capitol now.


Thank you, Sargento for injecting history to go along with the beautiful photos! Loreto was the first permanent colony in California, and while there were struggles by the Europeans to survive and uprisings by the natives against the Spanish invaders, Loreto still offered more than the other peninsula sites were colonies failed (La Paz, San Bruno, Cabo San Lucas).

Loreto is the Head and Mother of all forty-eight California missions, founded seventy-two years before San Diego's mission. Loreto is where Junípero Serra began his overland expedition to San Diego from, founding his first mission at Velicatá, along the way, and naming it San Fernando (two months before San Diego).

ligui - 10-9-2015 at 05:41 PM

Wow ! thanks love it .... Time for me to go see my friends , looks great this year .

Nice pics. :bounce:

Phil S - 10-9-2015 at 06:08 PM

Boo hoo hoo hoo for ever selling & leaving. My bad. But 25 years of beach camping at Rattlesnake, and home ownership at Nopolo. And trips to Cabo & back to Oregon & Arizona. Many many friends and a million great memories. Hugs to all. And thanks a million for those memories. Most are of you guys in Loreto & Nopolo & Truipui (didn't spell that right I think. (And one bad memory. That was the lady owner of the homes at Truipui) Think it was Alma?????

bajacalifornian - 10-9-2015 at 07:00 PM



Nicely done . . .


Yup! It is home . . . see you for meals soon :bounce::bounce:. Southbound from Rosarito this week for a couple months.


Sonia & Jeff

BajaBlanca - 10-9-2015 at 07:51 PM

those are very beautiful shots! boy oh boy. thanks for sharing.