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Coco me and my dad
Halloween party at my buddys old bar 09'
[Edited on 2-10-2011 by TheBajaKid]
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TheBajaKid
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
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so McFez did you make it to calamajue yet? I have been enjoying the place since i was old enough to remember(over 20 years now). I havent been in a
few years but thats one place in baja that little has changed over the years. I have tons of info on fishing, snorkeling, and camping. even a
turquoise mine. If youd like some info im your guy. |
We're heading in this March, in a matter of fact. Now with the travel time greatly improved (the road)...it's a good time to haul the young ones down
there. I was emailed by someone here saying that this is a good spot for snorkeling...going to check that out as well.
Have a box load of stuff (clothes) for the old man (Coco) to drop off too. Several of the kids (16yr) have never met him, and it's time to do that. I
got to admire Coco toughness out there! |
Don't take him any pants. lol
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mcfez
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| Quote: | Originally posted by TheBajaKid
| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
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so McFez did you make it to calamajue yet? I have been enjoying the place since i was old enough to remember(over 20 years now). I havent been in a
few years but thats one place in baja that little has changed over the years. I have tons of info on fishing, snorkeling, and camping. even a
turquoise mine. If youd like some info im your guy. |
We're heading in this March, in a matter of fact. Now with the travel time greatly improved (the road)...it's a good time to haul the young ones down
there. I was emailed by someone here saying that this is a good spot for snorkeling...going to check that out as well.
Have a box load of stuff (clothes) for the old man (Coco) to drop off too. Several of the kids (16yr) have never met him, and it's time to do that. I
got to admire Coco toughness out there! |
Don't take him any pants. lol |
Ok...that's funny! And he would think so too!
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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TheBajaKid
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when in March? i have my dads timeshare in cabo april 2-9. Im driving down early to bum around
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| Quote: | Originally posted by TheBajaKid
when in March? i have my dads timeshare in cabo april 2-9. Im driving down early to bum around |
March 29 we should be arriving at our house in Campos Ocotillio (San Felipe). I hope to invite any Nomad withing the area for a outdoor camp Bar B Q
at the house....all the trimmings served up. Details of that will appear here at BN in a few weeks from now.
On day 5 or 6 of our stay.....we are heading for GB and Calamajue for a few days.
My family and I hope to meet you
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by TheBajaKid
My dads been going for over 30 years now, so i kinda grew up in calamajue.
It is a wonderful place  |
Great... About when did the fishing village abandon the place?
The graded road was built to there from Laguna Chapala first (~1982?), before a branch went north to Gonzaga (or perhaps the grading south from
Puertecitos terminated there ~1986 (at what would become Coco's Corner.
Before '82, we came up through Calamajue Canyon... as that was the main route for Mexico #5!
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I was born in 81' but ive heard alot of stories of the old road.
as far as when it was abandon as a fish camp Chuy and chuy jr. and there
family had the rights to the commercial fishing for years they moved to Mexicali
in 07 i might be wrong. Over the years of going you never knew what you would encounter. Some years it was a gost town no teacher only 2 families. One
on the beachand one on the ranch 1/2 mile or so off the beach along the hills to the north.
The Family there who adopted my dad in the early years was Lupe his wife lupe and the children who as they grew they ventured outward for better means
to live. The old man has passed now. The wife and most of the family live in Guerro Negro.
Other years the beach was packed, one year it was the rock scallops another was sea cucumbers, then sand scallops, sometimes nets ,others longline.
each boom was exactly that, just a boom . after all the scallops were gone so were the divers and so on. Like i said one year nobody the next it was
in need of a store it was so packed.
Im sure its just time before they make there next gold rush there
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Thanks for sharing your story of Puerto Calamajue...
If you haven't yet, try and get a copy (from the library or purchase)of 'Camp and Camino in Lower California' by Arthur W. North. It is his trip
through Baja in 1905/6 and he talks a lot about 'his friend' Dick Daggett who had operated the gold ore mill in Calamajue (across the arroyo from the
mission, just before the road drops into the arroyo, southbound)... Dick (the grandfather of Reuben Daggett of L.A. Bay) was at Puerto Calamajue
waiting for a ship to arrive with supplies when North rode into Calamajue Mill/ mission.
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I will have to start looking for that book.
La Paloma was the last mining comapny to work that area.
I have a couple rocks that were giver to me where you can see the vain of gold running across the rock they came from the same area.
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