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schwarzenegger spotted south of San Quinten

lizard lips - 4-14-2005 at 04:36 PM

About 2 weeks ago Arnie and 4 professional baseball players were scene getting out of their private jet at an airport near San Quinten. They were met by the ex Gov. of Baja Cal. then driven to a location south to apparently look at some property to build a resort. Has anybody heard any rumors of this? My information comes from a very reliable source....:wow:

bajaloco - 4-14-2005 at 04:58 PM

Something is going on at El Rosario, heard not long ago about a rumored airport and resort there. Can't imagine anything at San Quinten...too much agriculture for a resort.

capn.sharky - 4-14-2005 at 05:02 PM

Pompano---Love your sense of humor. How true about San Quinten. Never felt very comfortable there. Too much poverty and overworked, underpaid indians. Also am enjoying your world's shortest books. How about "Vietnam, the longest War" by John Kerry.

David K - 4-14-2005 at 05:07 PM

It's no secret... The Diamante Del Mar project is well underway... The concrete jet airport is already in, and being used by the developer's private jet (Antonio 'BajaCactus' has ridden on it)... You can see the runway off to the west of Hwy. 1 on the mesa before dropping down to El Rosario.

I visited the sales office/ guest condo last November. One of the developer's two on site reps reads this forum. We had Thanksgiving dinner with the other, at Mama Espinoza's... See http://vivabaja.com/1104

Here is a photo I took of the project map that was in the sales office overlooking the ocean... Hwy. 1 is on the far right edge, then the runway parallel to it. On the far left an orange arrow tag points to the office location. The golf couse will be like none other ever made... luxery homes all inland of the course and all developing will be done with minimal impact on the terrain and the goal is to have un obstructed views of the ocean from all 18 holes of each course. Roads will be slightly below grade so as not to interupt the view of the landscape... Perhaps we will hear more from the expert on this, I am only recalling what I heard that afternoon.

[Edited on 4-15-2005 by David K]

BajaNomad - 4-14-2005 at 05:12 PM

Diamante del Mar golf resort ?:

http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=7136

BajaNomad - 4-14-2005 at 05:13 PM

ooops.

lizard lips - 4-14-2005 at 07:56 PM

I just made a call to have my jet ready to go down there tomorrow. Wow! What a place. Ive got to see this....

Bruce R Leech - 4-14-2005 at 08:18 PM

lizard lips can I ride along?

Dave - 4-14-2005 at 08:39 PM

The house w/pool ain't Baja. Looks like south of PV, maybe Carreyes.

lizard lips - 4-14-2005 at 08:51 PM

Dave, Your probably right, those potted palms look too healthy for Baja Norte. Has anybody heard when the Costco will be built there?

Joaquin Suave - 4-14-2005 at 09:12 PM

Rumor has it that they have big dreams and...NO WATER!!!

Mexray - 4-14-2005 at 10:52 PM

When things really get 'rolling' down there at DDM, perhaps Antonio can get the Pemex Jet-fuel & Av-gas concession for that new concrete strip...

Maybe David K can get the golf course sprinkler concession there and then be able to spend all his time in Baja - or commute to SD in his new private corporate jet when he hits it big-time...;)

As for me, I don't have such lofty goals, I'd just like to have the Liquor and Cerveza consession...to go along with my 'hotel-style', 'massage' parlor business over looking the ocean...:smug:

If all else fails, I'll have to open a 'Tommy's Original Burger Shack' or an 'In & Out' Burger stand in a area that allows the aroma from the kitchen to migrate into DDM's property each evening as the sun goes down...those 'Cheese Burger' hungry golfers will flock to my doors...:spingrin:...I'll fuel my corporate jet on left-over burger fat, and my aircraft will then smell like French Fries as it whisks me away to the Cayman Isles to count my big bucks...:tumble:

David K - 4-14-2005 at 11:03 PM

I have already applied for the private Baja tour guide position!:lol:

This place is over half sold (to the rich and famous)... luxery homes follow the golf course construction... A small marina is likley going in on the north end (near El Consuelo)... with land, sea, and air ports of entry, they could become an independent republic!:o

bajaxplorer - 4-15-2005 at 07:14 AM

Well at least it's on the "other" coast.

Bob H - 4-15-2005 at 08:13 AM

The development we will see in the next 20 years will be unbelievable. Unreal. Go and see Baja now, and as often as possible - she is changing so fast.:o

David K - 4-15-2005 at 08:20 AM

Baja will be a new experience to each person at the time of their first visit... That will be the Baja that they will want to hold onto and not see change...

For me, it was a vast unpopulated desert wilderness void of paved roads... full of adventure, things to explore, lot's of history (mines, missions, cemeteries, petroglyphs).

Here I am in 1967 at Molino de Calamajue (age 9 1/2) where Dick Daggett milled gold ore, across the arroyo from the Jesuit mission site...

[Edited on 4-15-2005 by David K]

surfer jim - 4-15-2005 at 08:42 AM

Maybe they will have a "wave generating" machine and heated water for the rich surfers.......

El Rosario.....cold, gloomy, fog A LOT,

capt. mike - 4-15-2005 at 09:02 AM

low layered slag....did i mention morning marine layer till 1 - 2 PM?

give me sun shine man if i am going to buy a $500K lot and membership!

the one thing that saves their ability to fly in ALL THE TIME regardless of crummy WX (they could put in an ILS but now don't have to!) is the new WAAS gps nav with vertical guidance and no ground based nav facilities!

wish i could afford one if only for the appreciation.

Cold, Marine layer = fog

Barry A. - 4-15-2005 at 09:32 AM

So does La Jolla and Coronado (USA), etc., but they just keep coming, and the prices just keep going up------amazing!!!

Me, I am a desert Rat, so it is no skin off my nose. I freeze on the Pacific coast.

osoflojo - 4-15-2005 at 03:14 PM

Gucci collered poodles and Grey Poupan....................

Pompano you kill me with such vizualations..........:lol:

Bruce R Leech - 4-18-2005 at 09:06 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by grover
For those like me who were wondering where it is, I used the "phasing plan" for Diamante Del Mar that DavidK posted as a guide, and drew the major features of the project on top of a satellite image from Google maps.


Sorry about the ~~1 minute(dialup) download, but any smaller and you couldn't recognize much.

The red line is the 6000' concrete runway, the green blotches are the golf course, and the blue line appears to be the road to drive in their guests.

I had wondered about that. :lol: I was thinking maybe they would put up video screens with palm trees and bikinis as a distraction if they had to drive them through "downtown."

In the lower left corner you can just make out la bocana. After having a look at where they have put the resort and a little bit of what is involved with it, I am kind of excited and happy for El Rosario.

I hope they hire locally for all the help, and pay them a fair wage. It would be pretty cool for the town, in my opinion.


wow Grover you did a nice Job on that it certainly makes it clear. Thanks:spingrin:

bajablue - 4-18-2005 at 09:25 AM

Wow, that looks awesome! So El Rosario is more South/East from there, correct? It doesn't look like from the map, that they are even disrupting the town. If anything, it's going to bring a lot of work and prosperity to that area. I personally think it will be great..

La Bocana

David K - 4-18-2005 at 05:48 PM

Correct... the town is far and unseen from the golf course sites... The desalinization plant will be above the arroyo valley north and a tad inland of La Bocana beach (near that pointy hill)...

David K - 4-18-2005 at 05:57 PM

Oh, and Grover did an excellent job with the satellite/map overlay! Thanks... I wonder if you can teach me how you did that??:D

bajalou - 4-19-2005 at 08:51 AM

Good work - and you're quite a artist to paint all that stuff.

:biggrin:

La Jolla and Coronado

Big Al - 4-19-2005 at 09:05 AM

yes, La Jolla and coronado get lots of fog, like any town near the Pacific at this latitude. the difference is the wind. The wind in that area can be brutal. The reason there are sand dunes south of SQ is because of one reason wind and lots of it. Wind + Fog = cold (plus an average ocean water temperature just above freezing). After saying all of that, I love that area myself. It reminds me of the coast in Northern Washington State. The surf fishing is great and Tuna can be found a short distance away.

Big Al

thebajarunner - 4-19-2005 at 10:21 AM

Southbound we asked one of the military checkpoint guys if there happened to be a new landing strip in the area.
He pointed back over his shoulder and yep, there it was, gleaming concrete in the usual sea of fog and coastal clouds whipping up the bluff.
Northbound, we got a better look, albeit still cold, cloudy and windy.
In fact, in 34 years of driving across that mesa it has always been the same, cold, cloudy and windy.
Not even a cactus, nor a green piece of brush...
Just gray, and bleak,
As a long-time real estate developer I can admit selling some pretty dismal stuff to folks at times, but this one tops most that I have seen.
Lotsa luck folks. Good thing they are building it for the 'monied gentry' cause you will need to spend money you otherwise don't need.
Appreciation? The only appreciation will be when you head a few miles South and see the sun again.

Baja Arriba!!

bajalera - 4-20-2005 at 08:28 AM

Thanks, Grover, that was a great job!

Lera

Dave - 4-20-2005 at 08:40 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by bajalera
Thanks, Grover, that was a great job!

Lera


It sounds like you were a kindergarden teacher.

bajalou - 4-20-2005 at 08:41 AM

I think I recognize you.

:biggrin:

one of the guys driving a real Hummer at the El Rosario checkpoint 10 days ago

BajaVida - 4-24-2005 at 06:38 PM

sure looked like a brown version of Arnold

could it have been?