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Osprey
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Our fishing Co Op here in La Ribera has a one kilometer concession on our beach and controls that area for 15 years of permit period. PROFEPA still
has the last say and recently when we wanted to make new launch approaches from decomposed granite (like we've had for years) they denied our request.
Even though the beach has signs about the concession Mexican and other beach users seem to ignore all laws (federal, local, etc) when they visit.
Somehow it all works out, it's not a turtle beach, everybody seems to be able to use the beach in lots of different ways without shoreline skirmishes
or fistfights (so far).
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Russ
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Is that a "Baja Nomad" sticker on the front of the car in the first photo?
Bahia Concepcion where life starts...given a chance!
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David K
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| Quote: | | Quote: | | Quote: | Originally posted by BajaWarrior
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Are you really wondering why this law and a slew of others not enforced anywhere similar is being enforced here all of a sudden?
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Are they enforcing no riding on the Beach in Abreojos? What about the locals? They use the beach with vehicles also... |
There were tire tracks on the beach near Abreojos... as there are on most beaches near fishing camps in Baja...
People that make an issue about beach driving seem to be unfamiliar with the remote areas where there are few or no people and beach driving is no
different than driving on any other surface in Baja, to get to where you want to go.
The places where driving on a beach is a real problem and shouldn't be allowed are in front of places like Rosarito where there are people all over
the sand... Of course there are horses on the beach there as well... ??
Go to Cielito Lindo/ Pabellon beach during low tide and actually see busses taking people on the beach, as well as all sorts of cars and trucks. That
isn't even a remote beach.
[Edited on 8-7-2007 by David K]
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Mexitron
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DK--I may be mistaken but I think the beach driving prohibition also has to do with protecting clams...at least that's what I recall the signs saying
years ago in Abreojos....but yes you're right about the beach being the superhighway in places down there, eh, except at high tide!
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DanO
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Wish I'd had my camera a few years back at La Bocana when a guy in a Ford Ranger got stuck in the swash zone. He was parallel to the surf, with the
driver's side facing the waves. He got out to take a look at the back wheels, leaving the driver's side door open and his girlfriend in the passenger
seat. From our perch on the cliff above, we saw that he was completely unaware of a huge set that was rollling in. He didn't even look up when we
started whistling and shouting and pointing at the waves. The first one got his attention thought, when it broke -- the whitewash knocked him over
him and swept right into the truck cab through the open door. The girlfriend bailed out of the passenger side door after her drenching, and the next
two waves refilled the cab two more times, because the guy was too busy fending off his peeed off, sopping wet girlfriend to close the doors and
windows. A guy in a Toyota Landcruiser drove down to try pull the Ranger out, but got stuck too, a little higher up the beach. In the hour that the
two of them were trying to get both vehicles unstuck, the tide, of course, was coming in, so that the Ranger was eventually about half submerged in
small surf, and covered during sets. The two of them finally recruited a crowd of people from the beach to lift and physically carry the Ranger out
of the water. Amazingly, he got the thing started after awhile and drove off. I'm guessing it didn't smell to nice inside after that.
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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viabaja
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It's a blast wakeboarding from the beach behind an ATV until you fall in 6-12" inches of water. The sand is real hard and very abrasive! I did it once
and that was the last time!
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | | Quote: | | Quote: | Originally posted by David K
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Are you really wondering why this law and a slew of others not enforced anywhere similar is being enforced here all of a sudden?
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Are they enforcing no riding on the Beach in Abreojos? What about the locals? They use the beach with vehicles also... |
There were tire tracks on the beach near Abreojos... as there are on most beaches near fishing camps in Baja...
People that make an issue about beach driving seem to be unfamiliar with the remote areas where there are few or no people and beach driving is no
different than driving on any other surface in Baja, to get to where you want to go.
The places where driving on a beach is a real problem and shouldn't be allowed are in front of places like Rosarito where there are people all over
the sand... Of course there are horses on the beach there as well... ??
Go to Cielito Lindo/ Pabellon beach during low tide and actually see busses taking people on the beach, as well as all sorts of cars and trucks. That
isn't even a remote beach.
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Actually, driving over clams, turtle eggs, grunion eggs (do they have grunion in baja?), nesting birds, etc., aint the best thing for them little
creatures. Better if you stay off the beach, regardless of people being present. Even a solitary person at the beach to enjoy the beach usually
prefers to be there without cars and ATVs.
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Iflyfish
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Ah! Youth!!
Once took my 40hp merc powered run about over the surf in Santa Cruz, my goal, water ski circles around the surfers! I did it and flipped the boat on
the way in........sucked salt water into the engine......I leaned not to do taht any more........Ah! Youth!
Iflyfish
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Ken Bondy
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This happened at San Francisquito about 20 years ago. Definitely among my dumbest Baja moves:
My dear friend Jim Bailey and I kept two inflatable boats there in a locker. Both were Metzelers, superb pieces of German equipment, one a twelve
footer called (by Metzeler) a “Maya,” and a bigger one, a sixteen footer called, appropriately, the “Elefant.” Our drill, after coming back in from
fishing or diving or whatever we were doing on the water that day, was to haul the boats up on the beach to a point well above the high tide line
where it would remain overnight. One afternoon we hauled the bigger boat, the Elefant, up to a point which we thought was safe, and proceeded with
the evening festivities. In the morning the boat was gone. We had substantially underestimated an extreme high tide, and sometime during the night,
the water reached the boat, and the Elefant floated away. The morning was beautiful, warm and clear with virtually unlimited visibility, the sea was
brilliant blue and dead calm, and there was no Elefant in sight. Frank Armellini was flying the smallest airplane that trip, a Cessna 172, he had
plenty of fuel (none was available then at PFQ), and so Frank volunteered to do an aerial search for the boat. We talked to Savino who felt, based on
his knowledge of the currents, that it would most likely have drifted to the south. So Frank took off in the 172 and headed south; it didn’t take him
long to find our Elefant. It was drifting about five miles offshore and, amazingly, about ten miles south of where it had started, sometime in the
night. Frank spotted the location of the boat using landmarks on the coast, and headed back. Savino fired up the panga and Bailey and I headed for
our drifting, crewless boat. It was right where Frank said it would be, and Bailey and I boarded it to bring it home. Savino waited until the
engine, a Johnson 25 hp, lit off, and then both boats headed back north to PFQ. On the way back we passed huge boils of yellowtail working on the
surface, and since we still had fishing tackle on board, managed to land a few for the day’s ceviche. Our haul-out protocol changed that day; from
that point on we tethered the boats to the center pole of a palapa so they wouldn’t ever again wander away in the night.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
DK--I may be mistaken but I think the beach driving prohibition also has to do with protecting clams...at least that's what I recall the signs saying
years ago in Abreojos....but yes you're right about the beach being the superhighway in places down there, eh, except at high tide!
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I think the bus on the beach was full of clam diggers!
Cielito Lindo, 2002
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