vgabndo
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Imagine if the Tres Virgenes blew up
Another very raw side of that magnificent desert land would show it's face.
Ok, now it is sort of about Baja.
The first of the photos in the link below are of the eruption recently of a volcano in Chile during the lightning storms caused by the upheaval.
Can you imagine seeing this from just east of San Ignacio.
http://megagalerias.terra.cl/galerias/index.cfm?id_galeria=3...
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Mexitron
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Wow, what a photo! Good look at Earth circa a couple billion years ago. It would be something to see the silhuettes of Cardon, Elephant Trees, and
Cirios against that backdrop.
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Bob and Susan
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let see...
i think la paz would be COVERED with fancy food 
and...
JESSE would be an unhappy camper
take a look at this video...
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/restaurant-las-tres-virgen...
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
Wow, what a photo! Good look at Earth circa a couple billion years ago. It would be something to see the silhuettes of Cardon, Elephant Trees, and
Cirios against that backdrop. |
The Chaiten volcano (Mexitron's photo) in southern Chile erupted about three weeks ago .... it can happen at any time.
CaboRon
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That classic pic reminded me of a incident that happened to me and the family on our way home from our first trip to Baja.
The year was 1964 and we were returning home from eight days at PaPa Fernandez place at Willard Bay in my VW bus.
We were on the plain north of Pt. Bufeo just motoring along when my wife let out a yep "look look" and I did right off shore this little isla
is blowing steam and black smoke its going to blow its top I thought and no
where to go but straight ahead,haven,t thought about it in years but it was scary.
Baja must have been a wild and woolly place once upon a time.
Rob
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longlegsinlapaz
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Zeeeeeesh vgabndo, I too thought your thread title was foreboding ill will for Jesse's Tres Virgens Restaurant!!
Those pics depict Mother Nature at truly breathtaking moments! I kinda feel gyped....I was within 100 miles of Mt. St. Helens when she erupted &
all she visibly produced at that distance was an enormous cloud of ash which made it's way to my area & covered everything with a fine covering of
ash. The local physical destruction was horrific, but minus the visually spectacular manner shown in those pics!
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rts551
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I read somewhere where the Tres Virgenes are very young volcanoes.
Look at the lava flow where it crosses the highway!! Looks relatively fresh (in earth year terms) Could erupt again??????
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Yes, the last eruption of Tres Virgenes was recorded 250 years ago by the Jesuits at San Ignacio... a minor one.
Isla San Luis, north of Gonzaga Bay was reported by National Geographic as also being capable of erupting, again.
Baitcast, I never read any mention of it or any of the other Enchanted Island erupting in our liftime... that's great info!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by rts551
I read somewhere where the Tres Virgenes are very young volcanoes.
Look at the lava flow where it crosses the highway!! Looks relatively fresh (in earth year terms) Could erupt again?????? |
Ask and ye shall receive....
Behold!.. the Mount and the Lava flow.
(...egads..I've morphed into Skeet.)
Tres Virgenes does not appear to be too active these days.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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The lightning pictures remind me of a sci fi picture I once saw: Forbidden Planet. The alien creature would look like that when it
tried to pass through the electric barrier that surrounded the spaceship (which looked like a flying saucer).
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baitcast
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Don,t know if you can call it an eruption but there was a hell of alot of steam and black crap blowing out of it,enough to get our attentionRob
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Sometimes I see steam coming out of the east side of Tres Virgenes.
Here is a pic I took about 30 years ago- the clouds made it look like an eruption then, wish I had taken a better picture.
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rts551
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Also very active steam vents currently at the bottom.
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Hook
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I've never seen a virgin get anywhere near as hot as you guys are talking.........let alone three.
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