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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
The "excellent" comment, a quote of your word, was meant to be facetious, Ken. Sorry about that. I should just say what I mean.
Anyway....the bay is clogged with kelp which would have in the past been controlled by a healthy Urchin population.
Is that right or wrong?
Dale's still around doing other things. Not just holding down the fort at a business with no customers. When buiseness picks up, so will Dale.
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Got it DENNIS, thanks. Yes urchins feed on kelp. But a lot of kelp, from a diving standpoint, is not necessarily a bad thing. Kelp sustains a
tremendous amount of life. Charles Darwin himself, in 1834, said:
“The numbers of living creatures of all orders, whose existence intimately depends on kelp, is wonderful. A great volume might be written describing
the inhabitants of one of these beds of seaweed”
Would love to dive that bay again sometime, will probably never happen but it's a nice thought.
carpe diem!
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DENNIS
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Thanks, Ken....I remember when Kelpco, the kelp processing company out of National City had a couple of cutters down here. The local fishermen would
complain that they would cut to deep, but money talks.
One morning I looked across the bay [I was living in town at the time] and one of the cutters was smoldering at the waterline.
Some years later, Kelpco took their operation to Ireland.
There's been a lot of top growth since then.
One of Kelpco's most notable products was Sweet 'n Low or one of those other earlier sweetners....don't recall.
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Yackie
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IMHO Cielito Lindo is a dump! You will freeze your butts off on the pacific side. Best place in San Quintin is by far El Jardines Hotel and
Restaurant. Las Casitas Hotel in Santa Rosalia is beautiful and hangs right off the cliffs, Fab views. I could go on forever about the best eats up
and down the peninsula. Never drive at night, don't camp in isolated spots, and never keep your pesos all in one place and don't flash around
expensive jewelry or a wad of cash. Once you are south of Ensenada it is a whole nother country, I feel much safer here than many many places north
of the border! Just use common sense. Remember it is not just the destination but the journey. Buena Suerte
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wilderone
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Yackie has good advice. You might try diving at the islands off Bahia de los Angeles. Although, IMO, most marine life that should be in the Gulf of
California is missing. Take the back road to Mision San Borja, hike around there, visit with the family - stay the night. Then dive around Laguna
Manuela, off the cliffs by the lighthouse - then head to Bahia Asuncion. If you only have 9 days, I'd stay put in one place - like Mulege - and go
hiking there to see petroglyphs, take a boat up the coast toward Punta Chivato for diving, relax a little, do a day trip to Conception Bay - some
pictographs on the rocks on the other side of the highway in the same area. Really, so much to see and do. Being in the car too long, you'll miss too
much of the little stuff that, really, in the cumulative, is really Baja California.
PS: I always camp in isolated places - if nobody knows you're there, who will bother you?
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