I would love to come but I have to teach and I would have had to get permission to miss classes sooner ... I was so busy last month that somehow I
didnt see this post. This is going to be a trip of a lifetime for you !!! Disfruten muchissimo !!
Of interest, when the cave art canyons were explored by Erle Stanley Gardner and company (early 1960's), he arranged with Mexico City to have Mexico's
national archeologist, Dr. Carlos Margain join them.
Dr. Margain made this map and it was he who named the canyon sites, in honor of those who did so much to reveal the art to the outside world, and
discovered more using helicopters... Mexico decided to ignore Margain's wishes and renamed them since then.
Flying with Dr. Margain from San Ignacio to San Francisco (de la Sierra) was J.W. Black and Desert Magazine publisher, Choral Pepper. Choral spotted a
cave high above the canyon that could only be seen from the helicopter. There was a flat area across from the cave, so the copter landed for photos.
Dr. Margain named it Pepper Cave because Choral saw it first. However, she said it couldn't have her name unless she actually went to the cave...
That feat required climbing the cliff to the cave. Black and Pepper did that while Dr. Margain waited with the helicopter taking photos:
YES. I think that place is magical,just by looking at videos and photos. so I can imagine what it will fell when Im really there...one more in my to
do list in BAJA..
got back from this trip yesterday, we left Coyote bay@ 7:00am I reach Otay @ 8:30 pm,10 minutes on ready lane and I was on the good old USA..alot
nomads sightings on this trip.Bug from San Felipe, BajaBuckoo ,I meet this wonderfull Ladies in Sierra de San Francisco.Bajacactus(Antonio) in El
Rosario were we stay the firts Night.. Trip report and pix latter..
PS. Concepcion Bay was nice and empty...but not for long.. alot BC plates going down the Peninsula on Friday..
The Volca'n is probably gone by now,hey didn't have time to go see Santa Gertrudis mission, maybe next time..I think Im going back to San francisco on
November, BajaBuckoo is going to be there..they are going to do a tour around San Gregorio and San Pablo canyon's.I became friends with my guide
Loreto,and he invited me to his ranch in San Gregorio and offer to kill a chivo (goat) and B-Bque it for me..really nice guy..maybe then I can go see
the mission..
Hope your trip was a great one. looking forward to seeing the photos. If your trip in November is open I would be interested in joining you.
Thanks,
Scot
Baja Bucko sings a Baja song at Mision Santa Maria
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Originally posted by BAJACAT
The Volca'n is probably gone by now,hey didn't have time to go see Santa Gertrudis mission, maybe next time..I think Im going back to San francisco on
November, BajaBuckoo is going to be there..they are going to do a tour around San Gregorio and San Pablo canyon's.I became friends with my guide
Loreto,and he invited me to his ranch in San Gregorio and offer to kill a chivo (goat) and B-Bque it for me..really nice guy..maybe then I can go see
the mission..
One of the pleasures of camping with fellow Baja Nomads is our time at the campfire. Please enjoy our campfire at Mision Santa Maria, 2010 as Baja
Bucko sings to us... (video taken by 'hbmurphy')...
The evening before that video, we all had dinner at Ed's BAJA'S BEST Restaurant, in El Rosario... That's Neal Johns next to Baja Bucko...
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