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| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
| Quote: | Originally posted by woody with a view
the area that shall not be named.....2 months ago. the boys told us that 1000 kilos from the co-operativo were taken to ensenada for the chinese
buyers. therefore, even the cost of local SD lobster has risen....
and if i told you that we paid $20 for these 5 you wouldn't believe me....
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Yea,
I believe you. While our area is reasonably well patrolled, there are some lobster fishermen willing to take the risk and trade the lobster in their
co-op traps to other fishermen, and some are willing to risk more to sell both fresh and cooked lobster to gringo tourists. Legally all the lobster
belong to the co-ops.
Now, since the fishermen do receive a few for their own use, we have been given lobster as gifts and we know people who have bought lobster directly
from the co-op, but the co-op made them promise that it would be used right away.
So does the co-op in Rosarito sell any direct to the public?? |
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I've never heard of that, unless the "co-op" is the people who sell lobster from the trunks locked in back rooms of the shacks in Popotla.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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woody with a view
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bigzaggin
| Quote: | | The free road crosses Fox Studios, the cultural and tourism center of Calafia and Las Dunas (the dunes), among other popular sites.
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Calafia is a "cultural and tourism center???" Please explain. I thought it was just a place for so-so surf and overpriced lunch.
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before the condos grew out of the beach we used to park on the point. i don't know about so-so.... it was our favorite place in the summer hurricane
season. we got off work at 3.30 and headed south. in the water by 5pm MAX and surf until 7-730. back home by 9pm....
those were the days......
[Edited on 12-30-2010 by woody with a view]
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When I was a kid we also used to park out on the point and surf the reef around the back, which I was introduced to as "Mushrooms" or "Mushroom Rock."
Just plain "mushy" might have been more apt, but it had its good days and I distinctly recall how sad I was the first time someone told me I couldn't
park out there...an experience we all know well.
Not soon after, I started looking south...
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woody with a view
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the foto above is Mushrooms, circa 1985-ish...
onetime they had some fancy contest at Gus Cota's place. some called it k-38, but since ol' Gus was an ex-Point Loma guy we prefered to call it Gus'.
well, that weekend there was an epic so-hemi swell and i can still remember watching Joey Buran and Tom Curren threading their way thru the Mushrooms
(rock boils!) from WAY behind the peak.
i hated to share the waves with those pro wankers, but looking back, we thought WE had the place wired! to think that those guys had probably never
surfed it before, and they were doing 2-3 turns in front of the boils just blows the mind....
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That's an EPIC story. I think my first EVER Baja trip was in '84 (I was like, 12) and the guy I was with took me to surf Popotla. And we "camped" at
Mushrooms...just rolled his 4Runner out there and crashed in it. I don't even remember thinking there was a chance I could have been robbed. I guess
at that age, you're dumb enough to trust everyone.
Sometimes I'm tempted to see how much magic remains in far northern baja...but then I just drop my head and motor on to El Rosario.
[Edited on 12-31-2010 by bigzaggin]
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nowadays, i'm afraid to even look out the windows until the hills of maneadero. that's why we cross at 4am, right about sunrise ensenada is in the
rear view mirror.
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