Originally posted by wilderone
" ...we have 1 main industry salt is 92 percent of the GNP here."
Bruce, you have THE WHALE NURSERY - no other place in the WORLD has that. Have you looked at the register of visitors? People from all over the world
come to see the whales. You have the magnificent cave murals. There are U.S. tour companies charging over $1000 to see those cave murals. You and I
know what the Mexican guides get regardless of the tour operator's fees. When I got back from my cave tour, there was someone selling ice-cold beer
at $2.00 ea. Everybody bought one. The point is, there are plenty of opportunites. Baja is so totally unique - it needs to be protected for its
uniqueness, for the benefit of many, and for the future. Study some of the "eco-tourism" efforts of other countries. You will see high-priced bird
watching tours (been to Rio San Ignacio lately? there's a cat out of the bag - don't go ruining it ), backpacks from point A to point B (Sierra Club
backpacks are $250-500/per person), participants working at turtle nurseries pay big money to do so, etc., Anyway - if you all would start thinking
about how to turn all of your abundance of unique natural wonders into some income, while protecting it at the same time, you will find much success.
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