bajacalifornian
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A Brief Glimpse In The Mangroves Near Lopez
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Thanks for the "ride" 
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Nice, Jeff!
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Cool!
Are the mangrove kayak-able?
And what about those sand dunes?
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The margroves have been host to many kayaks. Neat dunes huh? Known locally as the Cordillera, the island chain between the Pacific and the laguna.
Varies in width, some spots an easy hike from boat out to the Pacific.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mulegena
Cool!
Are the mangrove kayak-able?
And what about those sand dunes? |
Mangroves are kayakable, but best to paddle channels inward on flood tide, outward on ebb tide, best at high tide, a bit shallow at low tide. Sand
dunes are not very conducive to kayaking. I suppose you could kayak down if you dragged kayak up, eh.
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Wow, looks exactly like the mangroves in the Florida Everglades!
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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Nice pics.
I recently saw a nat'l geographic program on mangroves. To be honest, I had no idea how vital they are to the whole Eco-system, but they really are.
And in this particular mangrove, the mud had gotten too thick for oxygen and snails have developed/adapted to the point where they have a tube that
rises up,grabs air which is then stored so the snail can continue the job of cleaning the mangrove.
Like most things in Nature, simply incredible.
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Thanks for the lovely pics, and reminder of how beautiful healthy mangrove forests are.
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Awesome pictures bello paisaje de agua Tierra - naturaleza 
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on the bucket list!
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In the mangroves.
bajacalifornian, thanks for those great photos and reminders about how beautiful and special those mangroves are in Mag Bay.
It's a favorite camping and fishing place for us, too. The whales, the fishing, and the mangrove bays bring us back...but not often enough!
We poled the shallows near the mangroves looking for snook (robalo) like these. Hah...we used jumbo prawns for bait...sheesh.
Took this pelican group photo by the old pilings in the bay. They had seen our 'bait'.
Truly a place of wonder and opportunity to explore. Thanks again for bringing back some memories.
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Great pictures.
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Neat, thanks
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Disappearing mangroves, Cortez side
Thank you for the gorgeous photos of these Mangroves. I remember paddling in that area almost 20 years ago so it's good to see they're still there.
30 years ago I camped on a small beach at the south end of Loreto. My friend and I camped in an old Volkswagen van at the dead end, near what is now I
believe a golf course. I woke up in the morning and walked to the inlet to the Mangroves and saw egrets and blue herons catching large fish where it
connected to the sea.
A Hundred yards away a bulldozer was digging up the Manngrove channel getting it ready for the hotel and golf course that is probably there now. We
were both very sad to see the construction And destruction taking place before our very eyes.
So I'm very happy to see that other mangroves are surviving and doing so well.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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Is the old phosphorous plant still there? You can get some killer oysters from the pilings!
Also, scallops from the sand bars....it's like a seafood smorgasbord.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Whale-ista
Thank you for the gorgeous photos of these Mangroves. I remember paddling in that area almost 20 years ago so it's good to see they're still there.
30 years ago I camped on a small beach at the south end of Loreto. My friend and I camped in an old Volkswagen van at the dead end, near what is now I
believe a golf course. I woke up in the morning and walked to the inlet to the Mangroves and saw egrets and blue herons catching large fish where it
connected to the sea.
A Hundred yards away a bulldozer was digging up the Manngrove channel getting it ready for the hotel and golf course that is probably there now. We
were both very sad to see the construction And destruction taking place before our very eyes.
So I'm very happy to see that other mangroves are surviving and doing so well. |
many people now are aware that mangroves are life blood of the fisheries,... but developers are still angling to destroy mangroves whenever they are
in way of making a buck! another reason you should donate to pronatura and your local eco warriors! think global, act local!
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