24baja
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Trip to BOLA in progress
Hey everyone,
Just an update on this trip. we left Grants Pass OR at 0400 on Feb 28 drove to Imperial Beach CA and stayed overnight. Had breakfast and hit the new
San Ysidro Crossing at the border.....what a piece of cake the new signs direct you exactly where you need to go. Had a 5 minute wait and the guards
just looked in the back of the canopy and in the engine compartment no hassels at all. Very friendly guard.
Arrived in BOLA at about 1500 hrs and unloaded and opened house. I couldn't set up the computer because I forgot the Modem power cord. And many thanks
to Nomad Larry C. for lending us one so we could let our family know we arrived and all was well. It has been beautiful sunshine and
very little wind so far. This is a work on the house trip so fishing takes a back seat. We went out yesterday and the day before for about 4 hours
and caught bass, jawfish and rockfish. Today is a slight SW wind and slightly overcast but warm. What a difference from the Oregon weather we left
behind.
Several of our friends are here on the beach and that is always an added bonus for us. One of the houses next to us sold over the weekend so we are
all enjoying meeting and learning about our new neighbors.
Well friends, that is all for now will post photos later (my upload speed isn't great here! Connie & Brett
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David K
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Great report... Thanks!
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larryC
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Glad I could help. I have done the same thing a few times. Now I keep wires at each house for the modem, directv receiver. computer, etc. Enjoy your
stay.
Larry
Off grid, 12-190 watt evergreen solar panels on solar trackers, 2-3648 stacked Outback inverters, 610ah LiFePo4 48v battery bank, FM 60 and MX60
Outback charge controllers, X-240 Outback transformer for 240v from inverters, 6500 watt Kubota diesel generator.
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redhilltown
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Thanks for a great report!! Lucky you. Was wondering, as to the "jawfish" you caught...are those the ones sometimes called "big mouth bastards"?
(sorry...but its true).
Did you keep any and eat them? Such a bizarre looking fish we never had the gumption though I heard they are excellent eating.
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24baja
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| Quote: | Originally posted by redhilltown
Thanks for a great report!! Lucky you. Was wondering, as to the "jawfish" you caught...are those the ones sometimes called "big mouth bastards"?
(sorry...but its true).
Did you keep any and eat them? Such a bizarre looking fish we never had the gumption though I heard they are excellent eating.
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Yes those are he fish they are really good to eat.
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chuckie
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BOLA is under appreciated...
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Bajaboy
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enjoy and thanks for the update
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Alm
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
BOLA is under appreciated... |
Maybe... Or maybe not... Like the characters of this 2002 essay Miraculous Air said, "this is complicated":
***The Bahía de los Angeles was swimming with islands: tiny guano-bright hillocks, a massive volcanic cone, and one -- Angel de la Guardia (Guardian
Angel) -- so vast it looked like a swath of mainland, strangely near. The town of Bahía de los Angeles, however, was a pitiful thing, far off in the
distance, a clutch of cinderblocks like a splotch on the southern cup of the bay.
The road descended. A trio of vultures circled as we passed through the garbage dump. And then, hard against the barren shore, we came to the string
of ramshackle houses and ramshackle RV parks.
Guillermos RV Park had a room behind the office. It was fairly clean, only three c-ckroaches (thumb-sized, belly-up) on the bathroom floor. But there
was no water or light until 6 p.m. The deal was, water and light from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m., and from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. Twenty- five U.S. dollars, cash in
advance.
Outside, by the water, lingered a smell, faint but rank, something not unlike raw sewage with limburger cheese. A pack of dogs lazed in the sand. Some
tables were set up beneath a palapa. A group of Americans was getting trashed on margaritas.
So this was it, the famous, beloved by Baja Buffs, "Bay of L.A." ***
(As it turned out later, the smell was from the dead whale on nearby beach).
Read and enjoy.
In defense of my beloved BOLA I have to say that there is now permanent - or almost permanent - electricity in some of those ramshackle houses and
camps.
[Edited on 3-18-2013 by Alm]
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Marc
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Alm
| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
BOLA is under appreciated... |
Maybe... Or maybe not... Like the characters of this 2002 essay Miraculous Air said, "this is complicated":
***The Bahía de los Angeles was swimming with islands: tiny guano-bright hillocks, a massive volcanic cone, and one -- Angel de la Guardia (Guardian
Angel) -- so vast it looked like a swath of mainland, strangely near. The town of Bahía de los Angeles, however, was a pitiful thing, far off in the
distance, a clutch of cinderblocks like a splotch on the southern cup of the bay.
The road descended. A trio of vultures circled as we passed through the garbage dump. And then, hard against the barren shore, we came to the string
of ramshackle houses and ramshackle RV parks.
Guillermos RV Park had a room behind the office. It was fairly clean, only three c-ckroaches (thumb-sized, belly-up) on the bathroom floor. But there
was no water or light until 6 p.m. The deal was, water and light from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m., and from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. Twenty- five U.S. dollars, cash in
advance.
Outside, by the water, lingered a smell, faint but rank, something not unlike raw sewage with limburger cheese. A pack of dogs lazed in the sand. Some
tables were set up beneath a palapa. A group of Americans was getting trashed on margaritas.
So this was it, the famous, beloved by Baja Buffs, "Bay of L.A." ***
(As it turned out later, the smell was from the dead whale on nearby beach).
Read and enjoy.
In defense of my beloved BOLA I have to say that there is now permanent - or almost permanent - electricity in some of those ramshackle houses and
camps.
[Edited on 3-18-2013 by Alm] |
So, what's the problem??
[Edited on 3-25-2013 by Marc]
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