Where in Baja am I? Let's have some fun! Part 1 (+ Flying Sportsmen Lodge runway)

1) The Wonderer wins: Punta Bufeo (looking north)

2) JZ wins: William Lacy's grave at Molino de Lacy, near Punta Final

3) StuckSucks wins: Guillermo's (L.A. Bay)

4) bkbend wins: near Punta La Gringa

5) JZ wins: Beto's (Puerto San Francisquito)

6) StuckSucks wins: Tres Virgenes Eco Lodge

7) JZ wins: Punta Chivato (abandoned hotel)

8) StuckSucks wins: Playa Buenaventura (Cantina of Mark & Olivia)

9) TMW wins: old pier, Loreto (Flying Sportsman Lodge)

10) StuckSucks wins: Playa Ligüí

SCORE CARD:
StuckSucks: 4
JZ: 3
TMW: 1
The Wonderer: 1
bkbend: 1

Thanks for playing!




[Edited on 2-2-2023 by David K]

Quote: Originally posted by bkbend

Is #4 one of the coves north of La Gringa looking back south toward it?

Quote: Originally posted by JZ

#4 looks like it is somewhere in Bahia Concepcion.

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Lacy, yes. You guys are really good today!! TW, that's what was left of the Flying Sportsman Lodge pier, made famous on the cover of Ray Cannon's 1966 book, Sea of Cortez.

Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc

are that power poles on the hill in #4?

Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc

Quote: Originally posted by David K   Lacy, yes. You guys are really good today!! TW, that's what was left of the Flying Sportsman Lodge pier, made famous on the cover of Ray Cannon's 1966 book, Sea of Cortez. can you post a copy of the page about Flying Sportsmen Lodge airport in the Senterfitt book? Would like to figure out the direction.

Of course!
I was surprised it was not in the 1972 edition, but by then the municipal airport, south of town, was paved, nearby the resort.

In the 1969 edition pages (some were included in my 1972 edition), the municipal dirt airport was north of town and had already closed the Flying Sportsman runway.

So, we go to the 1967 edition to see the original runway, just south of the resort, and parallel to the coast, more or less...

Note the pier near the top of the photo, as it was directly in front of the Lodge. The white arrows point out the ends of the runway, mid-lower right of image close to the shoreline...



Will you show on Google Earth where the runway would be, today?

Here is the history of Molino de Lacy (originally named Molino de San Francisquito), near Puerto de San Francisquito (what today we call Punta Final Resort): William Lacy Story (Molino de Lacy founder)

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Will you show on Google Earth where the runway would be, today?

You bet!

Perhaps here?

Quote: Originally posted by StuckSucks

Perhaps here?

nope - here:





[Edited on 2-2-2023 by 4x4abc]

OK - Flying Sportsmen airstrip

I used the oldest 2006 Google Earth image first
the 1967 Senterfitt Baja map shows the airstrip at 20 - 28 (200 degrees north)
could not find the length, but the layout below should be pretty close with 1,650 ft



with the more current Google Earth image it looks like this:

the old Loreto Municipal airport was difficult
at least I had the length of 4,224 ft and the aerial image

here is how it would look like today
notice another smaller airstrip to the left
it's on the topo maps, but I don't know its purpose



and here are all 4 former and present airfields together:

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Great work Harald! The Flying Sportsmen's runway length is given, in tiny text, on the left side of the runway diagram.

Quote: Originally posted by JZ

Looking at these images, I just realized, of all the times I've been out on a boat around Loreto I've never seen a plane coming in to land.

Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc

Quote: Originally posted by David K   Great work Harald! The Flying Sportsmen's runway length is given, in tiny text, on the left side of the runway diagram. the resolution on BajaNomad does not allow for any detection of small numbers

Not a problem... see below.
In following editions, Arnold made the text much bigger! I can't imagine while flying, trying to read those figures! HA!!

here you go:




Here's the plane Ed Tabor landed there, full of fishermen from the U.S.:

as soon as I saw the name Ed Tabor I thought:

Cañon Tabor
Cerro Tabor
Sierra Tabor

the guy wasn't only flying around