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baitcast
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The first time
1964...Gonzaga bay....VW Bus wife and two kids,and it was a hoot,good thing I took a shovel.
BAITCAST
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tehag
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ist time
August, 1945. Tijuana birthday party for me and my cousin. Smitten at once and haven't gotten over a bit of it.
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lizard lips
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My Parents bought a home just North of Estero Beach in 63'. We sometimes would go into Ensenada and buy dinner at the first Col. Sanders on Reforma
and I remember saying that it was not chicken but seagull we were eating. The owner of the Col. Sanders was a real nice guy with 5 daughters. I was
only 12 years old but I fell in love with one of them. She was beautiful. It not until I moved to Ensenada in 1988 when I was still single when I met
my wife who I found out was one of the Daughters of the owner of Col. Sanders. She is now my wife but it was her older Sister that I had a crush on
several years before. The world really is a small place.
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Skeet/Loreto
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1951- Sailor out of Boot Camp- San Diego
1968- October in a Cessna 170B to check out an see if "The Sea Of Cortes Book by Ray Cannon was True. It Was!!
Fell in Love with Baja and its People.
Skeet/Loreto
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bajagrouper
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First love
Ensanada 1948, I fell in love with Baja,still am.............
I hear the whales song
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gringorio
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OK, clearly I am a Baja newbie compared to everyone else! But in 1989 (not too long ago really) my brother and I sailed our Hobie 18 on an over
nighter south of San Felipe in preparation for our longer trip. Boy, did we feel like we were in the middle of nowhere! I remember being marooned
way off the beach at low tide, trying to drag the Hobie to the high tide mark and make camp. The air was warm, the Sea smelled so good, the desert
sun was setting and everything was so new to my senses. Someone from a nearby fish camp came to our aid and helped us drag the catamaran up the
beach. Just out of the blue. Little did I know how this kind of selflessness was a standard in Baja. That scene set a lasting impression that keeps
me coming back for more. What a great place! 
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El Jefe
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As I remember it was 1599 and I was sailing as second mate on my uncle Rico?s Manila Galleon. We stopped in at San Jose estuary to take on provisions,
and dude it was unreal! We rowed the launch down the beach and I jumped out and got double overhead Zippers all to myself! After that we stopped in
every year ?cause the Captain was a longboarder from way back. The locals could be a bit of a hassle, but we were cool and always let them have their
go-out before we hit it.
Guess that makes me the king of the ?I been commin? here the longest crew.?
No b-tchin\' in the Baja.
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pappy
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tim40- yep! i get that same feeling every time.as i near the border i keep looking at the hills, comparing them to what i saw on my first trip as a
kid in '68.when i pass ensenada i think about that family that served us breakfast, and as i near estero, i think about the insane rash i got from
playing on an old panga-that night i ended up with an incredible itch and rash-from what? later we figured out it was the rough, weathered and exposed
fiberglass on the bow that i was laying on, reaching down for crabs and squirming around all day on.a multitude of glass splinters embedded in my
bare chest-lesson learned!!
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BajaDanD
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1969
went down with grand parents and Aunts and Uncles. My Grandfather was always going to Baja back then. He would always buy live Lobsters and he would
cook then in a pot. Well my Aunt freeked outwhen he put the live lobsters in boiling water. She had a fit she also was never asked to come down to
Baja again.
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Hook
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Forgot to mention...
....that on that '69 trip, we got word around Cantamar that there was a community of lobster fishermen just north of us that would cook lobsters at
their houses and you would eat right there. I remember all of us climbing into a VW dunebuggy we had brought down (for hitting the dunes just south of
Cantamar) and driving to this community. We ate at a picnic table that was on the side porch of the crustiest old fisherman I had ever seen. The women
of the family did the serving and cooking. As I recall it was all the beans, rice, lobster and tortillas you could eat for 5.00. But you couldn't eat
THAT many as the bugs were much bigger back then. Beers were sold out of an old Kelvinator on the same porch.....I was allowed to have my first
Mexican beer (believe it was a Mexicali) at age 16.
That community was nothing but fishermen's homes as I recall. Man, has it changed now!
It's called Puerto Nuevo.
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Pompano
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How long..hmmm, let's see..
I remember being very wet for a long, long, time and having no legs. Then one day I grew some flippers with fingers and crawled up onto the beach
which became known as Coyote a few millenium later....I can still smell the volcanoes..
I am old.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Baja Bernie
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Pompano
Ah! Yes, I remembered seeing you as you crawled out of the slime. I think you have this locked up with your story.
El Jefe had me going for a while but I really didn't want to admit my age at that time.
Lizard Lips wonderful story--so like things that can and do happen in this magical land we all love.
Just can't imagine anyone topping Pompano unless the guy who rested on the seventh day checks in with his bonifides.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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Bob H
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First time down was during a San Diego vacation in 1980, to TJ. Then moved to San Diego myself in 1984 and have been going south of the border ever
since.
The zebras are still there - I was shocked to see your photo from 1959. My wife went down to TJ about two years ago with her mom and one nephew and
one niece. We have that same shot sitting in one of our photo albums. I'll see if I can find it and post it here. Amazing. The one thing I noticed
- they are NOT really zebras at all. They are white donkeys painted with black stripes (probably shoe polish) 
Bob H
[Edited on 3-1-2005 by Bob H]
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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Mexitron
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1975--flew into Gonzaga with Dr. Link Grindle and family--I was hooked from the moment I landed.....still have never seen a clearer night sky than on
that trip--ultra luminescent doesn't even begin to describe it.
First time I drove myself was 1978--went to San Quintin--tried to surf but was chased out of the water by sharks, so we headed to the San Pedro
Martir--(interesting adventure with 2wd back then!)was blown away that this forest was in Baja...
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David K
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Great topic!
Most of you know my story, since Baja has taken over my soul as a kid in 1965!
First trip that year... Gonzaga Bay, by 4WD Jeep Wagoneer south from San Felipe (no paved streets in San Felipe then... just the end of Mex # 5 at the
'La Puerta' Pemex station (long gone). That gave me 'Baja Fever'!
We drove the entire peninsula in 1966 in the Wagoneer (2 week trip). This photo is me after catching my first dorado off Cabo San Lucas, during that
trip. I was not quite 9 years old...
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BajaDanD
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Motor or oars
David did that boat even have a motor or just oars
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David K
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It had a motor... we were way out in the open ocean. In the background is coast, northwest of Cabo San Lucas.
I posted these photos earlier of us motoring around the cape... On board were my parents and I, with the panga operator/ fishing guide.
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Bob H
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I found our TJ Zebra photo and took a digital shot of it (so it's not too clear). But, you can see that it was made in 1998 and has the same pose 39
years later. WOW
Bob H
[Edited on 3-1-2005 by Bob H]
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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Sallysouth
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since 1958
And then another Baja loving generation was started in 1968 when my daughter was born in Ensenada!
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osoflojo
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Pompano.....You and your primordial oze recollection say volumes....Many of us/you who are connected by this magical place may have well been there
before Las Tres Virgenes.........in some form or other..............
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