All answered! : Where is this in Baja game:

Lacking many new trip reports and photos, we can look back on fun times in the past.

Guess where, and maybe also when?

1) windgrrl [Road to San Juan de Dios]


2) BornFisher (view north to San Quintín Bay volcanoes)


3) RnR (Santo Tomás valley, by the final mission site)


4) RnR (Las Arrastras gold ore mill, next to new Coco's Corner)


5) KurtG (Road west from Mulegé)


6) KurtG (San Borjitas)


7) 4x4abc (Playa San Bruno, north of Loreto)


8) StuckSucks [Playa Frambes Lighthouse Resort]


9) 4x4abc (San Francisco de la Sierra)


10) RnR (The Grandpa's home at San Jacinto, near Camalu)


11) advrider [Baja Cactus Motel, El Rosario]


12) advrider [Coco's NEW Corner]


13) Bajazly [Shell Island]


14) bajaric [Mission San Fernando de Velicatá]


15) Maderita [WWII Pole Line Road]


16) David Nuevo (El Cardón or Punta el Diablo)


17) Bajazly [Cameron's Secret Beach/ Morro Santo Domingo]


18) BornFisher [Wet Buzzard Bar/Gypsy's RV Park, South San Quintín]


19) AKgringo [end of north river road, Mulegé]


20) Bajazly [Mike's Sky Rancho]


Hints will be added, if needed.


Just #1 remain to be answered!

SCOREBOARD:
RnR: 3
Bajazly: 3
RnR: 3
KurtG: 2
4x4abc: 2
BornFisher: 2
Maderita: 1
advrider: 1
AKgringo: 1
David Nuevo: 1
bajaric: 1
windgrrl: 1



[Edited on 2-7-2024 by David K]

Quote: Originally posted by Bajazly

12 is the old Cocos Corner and 17 is Camerons secret beach just north of Jesus Maria. 13 is Shell Island. 20 is the pool at Rancho Mike. [Edited on 2-4-2024 by Bajazly]

Quote: Originally posted by Maderita

With a quick glance at your wonderful photos: #6 - Sierra San Francisco. I don't recognize the cave pictographs from the Santa Marta side. So I'm guessing west side. When: several centuries before my time, jajaja #13 - Laguna Percebu - "Shell Island". Sierra San Pedro Martir & Picacho del Diablo in the distance, above the hood of the truck. When: sometime after you bought your Tacoma... #15 - southern Sierra de Juarez, "Pole Line Road" When: post-WWII #20 - Mikes Sky Ranch, northern Sierra San Pedro Martir When: After a day of offroading?

Quote: Originally posted by advrider

11, is Baja cactus. 12, coco's new corner, with his old toilet collection.

Quote: Originally posted by Maderita

#1: Giant cardon cacti, so perhaps a few miles south of San Felipe at "Valle de los Gigantes"? Or somewhere in the desert, east of the Sierra San Pedro Martir and west of the gulf. #5: Looks like the plateau above could be the southern Sierra de Juarez or southern Sierra San Pedro Martir. But there is so much similar topography and geology in Baja. Perhaps southeast of San Felipe in the Matomi area?

Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo

#19 looks like the north side of where the river hits the Sea of Cortez in Mulege.

Quote: Originally posted by StuckSucks

8: Punta Arena, specifically Playa Frambes

Quote: Originally posted by BoenBaja

#6 Santa Teresa Canyon, San Francisco de la Sierra, B.C.S.? Btw, how’s your recovery going? Bueno, yo espero.

Quote: Originally posted by RnR

# 4 -- Las Arrastras, (or something close to that name). An old mill site adjacent to a bridge and located on the east side of Mex 5. In the first arroyo south of the new Coco's corner. [Edited on 2-4-2024 by RnR]

Quote: Originally posted by RnR

# 3 -- The arroyo and fields adjacent to Mex 1 just south of Nuevo Rosarito. [Edited on 2-4-2024 by RnR]

Quote: Originally posted by RnR

# 10 -- The "Old Men's" (Grandpa's) assisted living home near San Quintin.

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Quote: Originally posted by RnR   # 3 -- The arroyo and fields adjacent to Mex 1 just south of Nuevo Rosarito. [Edited on 2-4-2024 by RnR] No, sorry. HINT: this is a mission site visible from Hwy. 1. Very little remains.

Quote: Originally posted by KurtG

#5 is the continuation of the Mulege ice house road that can take you to Mission Guadalupe or across to La Ballena. As to #17 being "secret" that is far from accurate. Many years ago my partner Kathy referred to it as "Sea Lion Arch Cove." It is a spectacular spot and migrating whales are very close to shore there. The climb back up to the road is a bit challenging but our old Explorer with 15#'s in the tires climbs it with no problem. #6 looks like Borjitas. [Edited on 2-4-2024 by KurtG]

Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc

#9 27.597941°, -113.015819°

Quote: Originally posted by RnR

Quote: Originally posted by David K   Quote: Originally posted by RnR   # 3 -- The arroyo and fields adjacent to Mex 1 just south of Nuevo Rosarito. [Edited on 2-4-2024 by RnR] No, sorry. HINT: this is a mission site visible from Hwy. 1. Very little remains. Okay. Then how about the fields to the left side of Mex 1 (heading south) just before entering Santo Tomas. (Just after the long downgrade south of the Las Cañadas Rv/camping area.)

Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc

#7 26.216099°, -111.378442° looking south

Quote: Originally posted by BornFisher

#2 looks south of San Quintin looking north. #3 looks like the area near San Vicente Mission.

Quote: Originally posted by David Nuevo

#16 El Cardon...or "Crowd-On", these days.

Quote: Originally posted by BornFisher

#18 is Buzzards, south of San Quintin.

#16

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Quote: Originally posted by David Nuevo   #16 El Cardon...or "Crowd-On", these days. Very good... I also would accept Punta el Diablo. A pretty little sand beach just north of Rancho El Cardón.

Quote: Originally posted by bajaric

14 must have been the only mission founded by the Franciscans. San Fernando? Looks like graves. I had Las Arrastras and Buzzards. We trailer camped at that place in the late 1970'swhen I was a teenager with my family before Buzzards was there. It was Pismo clam heaven. You could dig them up by the dozen with a pitchfork. My dad was so stressed out from towing a trailer down there his back went out and he spent the vacation lying in bed.

https://vivabaja.com/san-fernando/ is the link I just mentioned to see the mission from 1926 to 2017, my last time camping there.
In 2019, Scott Wolter of America Unearthed, hired me to guide him to the ship petroglyph for his 'Vikings in the Desert's episode (the Season 4 opener). See the few minutes of Baja portion of the show. We filmed over three days and it was edited down to only four minutes on the show.
See those minutes in the Media section on my website.
www.vivabaja.com/media

[Edited on 2-6-2024 by David K]

If anyone playing were to go to my website, the answer to #1 is the first photo caption there.

Quote: Originally posted by windgrrl

On the road to Velicata? Reference for the sore leg made for interesting reading: https://sandiegohistory.org/sites/default/files/journal/v59-...

Quote: Originally posted by towntaco

The road west out of Mulege goes through some truly spectacular terrain. Highly recommended for anyone looking to cut across the peninsula.