Mariz
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Loreto in all its splendor!
Chris has been shooting the beautiful landscapes around our place. Hope you enjoy the photos!
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SFandH
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Wow. I like the second one the best.
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blackwolfmt
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great pics looks pretty green down there
So understand dont waste your time always searching for those wasted years
face up and make your stand and realize that your living in the golden years
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sargentodiaz
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I've extensively studied the area and these pictures are absolutely the opposite of everything I've read about the area.
Loreto in the 1700s was a gathering of stone, sun-dried brick, and wattle structures where the Jesuits, their soldiers, and the converted Indians
struggled to scratch a living out of barren soil. Little decent grazing for the livestock and the carpenters had to travel for day in order to cut
wood straight enough to build they creaky launches.
I wonder what those pioneers would think of their capitol now.
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TMW
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Beautiful pictures for sure, thanks.
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David K
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Beautiful indeed! Thank you for sharing...
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Bajahowodd
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No question that Loreto is an extremely picturesque area. And I wonder how it became major failure for Fonatur.
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captkw
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major failure
Fonatur can not manage a roll of T.P. !!
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BigBearRider
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I second the vote for the second pic.
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David K
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Quote: Originally posted by sargentodiaz  | I've extensively studied the area and these pictures are absolutely the opposite of everything I've read about the area.
Loreto in the 1700s was a gathering of stone, sun-dried brick, and wattle structures where the Jesuits, their soldiers, and the converted Indians
struggled to scratch a living out of barren soil. Little decent grazing for the livestock and the carpenters had to travel for day in order to cut
wood straight enough to build they creaky launches.
I wonder what those pioneers would think of their capitol now. |
Thank you, Sargento for injecting history to go along with the beautiful photos! Loreto was the first permanent colony in California, and while there
were struggles by the Europeans to survive and uprisings by the natives against the Spanish invaders, Loreto still offered more than the other
peninsula sites were colonies failed (La Paz, San Bruno, Cabo San Lucas).
Loreto is the Head and Mother of all forty-eight California missions, founded seventy-two years before San Diego's mission. Loreto is where Junípero
Serra began his overland expedition to San Diego from, founding his first mission at Velicatá, along the way, and naming it San Fernando (two months
before San Diego).
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ligui
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Wow ! thanks love it .... Time for me to go see my friends , looks great this year .
Nice pics. 
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Phil S
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Boo hoo hoo hoo for ever selling & leaving. My bad. But 25 years of beach camping at Rattlesnake, and home ownership at Nopolo. And trips to
Cabo & back to Oregon & Arizona. Many many friends and a million great memories. Hugs to all. And thanks a million for those memories. Most
are of you guys in Loreto & Nopolo & Truipui (didn't spell that right I think. (And one bad memory. That was the lady owner of the homes at
Truipui) Think it was Alma?????
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bajacalifornian
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Nicely done . . .
Yup! It is home . . . see you for meals soon . Southbound from Rosarito this week for a couple months.
Sonia & Jeff
American by birth, Mexican by choice.
Signature addendum: Danish physicist — Niels Bohr — who said, “The opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Jeff Petersen
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BajaBlanca
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those are very beautiful shots! boy oh boy. thanks for sharing.
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