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Bajame
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What a find !
What is the most interesting thing you have found on your desert hikes? 
We all want a peaceful world, filled with love and laughter, but we fill ourselves with anger and hate trying to fiqure out how to achive it.
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motoged
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1) Peace of Mind.....different parts of desert
2) 20 million year old great white sharks teeth just north of Santa Rosalia
Don't believe everything you think....
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Barry A.
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An 80 lb. lead "pig" with the words BROKEN HILL stamped in it, and with a seemingly very old goldish patina on the exposed side---------it was almost
completely buried with only the patina side exposed to the weather.
The only reference to BROKEN HILL I am aware of is the Australian mining district of that name which typically produced a mixed silver / lead product.
I am guessing that I am rich, but have never had it appraised. 
Barry
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chuckie
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In the 1950's I found a Spanish Helmet and Breastplate in the the desert south of Jacumba...Donated them to a museum in San Diego....
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durrelllrobert
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Not in Baja but ....
in the Mojave dessert near Randsburg, CA I found a rusty double barrel shot gun WITH BOTH BARRELS SQUASHED FLAT. Still wonder why.
Bob Durrell
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Udo
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I found an old sealed EPIRB in Malarrimo beach a few years ago.
Udo
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motoged
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Udo
I found an old sealed EPIRB in Malarrimo beach a few years ago. |
What's that?
Don't believe everything you think....
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LancairDriver
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EPIRB is an emergency gps locator set off on contact with water. Required Coast Guard safety device on fishing vessels.
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captkw
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EPIRB
A lot of the older units were manual...as in you had to flip a switch that was under a cover and the nell ones us a different freq..I the old ones
were 121.5 mhz....so that planes could lolcat you also...the new ones are 406 MHz and talk to satalites....had it wrong there for a sec...
[Edited on 10-24-2013 by captkw]
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bajaguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by motoged
| Quote: | Originally posted by Udo
I found an old sealed EPIRB in Malarrimo beach a few years ago. |
What's that? |
Similar to an ELT on an aircraft
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BajaRat
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Baja California King snakes, beautiful creatures
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sancho
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Anyone ever poke around with a metal detector?
I suppose they MAY be illegal to some you run across
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bufeo
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In 1990 my wife found a 50-centavo silver coin minted in 1866 (during Maxmilian's short stay in Mexico) in good condition.
Today's value ~$200.00.
She also found a disassembled AR-15 in 1988.
We kept the coin; I couldn't get rid of the weapon fast enough—after I'd wiped it clean of fingerprints, of course.
Allen R.
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Bajame
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Yes , I found a few coins here in San Ignacio and they said that they were used for a short time and are worthless now .
We all want a peaceful world, filled with love and laughter, but we fill ourselves with anger and hate trying to fiqure out how to achive it.
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CortezBlue
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A horse with no name
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David K
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Oh wow, where do I begin??? Baja is a land of wonder and adventure... Finding petroglyphs that were unknown to me, and a 'lost mission' come to
mind...! Seeing the bighorn sheep near Mission Santa Maria was special, too.
'Petroglyph Park', east of El Socorro, 2005:
Near Bahia Las Animas: 1966 & 2009:
Near Mission Santa Maria, 2007:
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Bajame
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Found a Blue footed Booby and it let me take an upclose picture of it.
We all want a peaceful world, filled with love and laughter, but we fill ourselves with anger and hate trying to fiqure out how to achive it.
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Bajame
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Also found a burro that admitted to being one, that was a great find! . Plus a 5 point stag that had been hit by a car near san Ignacio.
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EdZeranski
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..one man's trash
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajame
What is the most interesting thing you have found on your desert hikes?
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My wife stopped to pick up some broken beer bottles on the beach and found a gold centenario with the trash. I guess good karma for picking up the
beach.
It looked like the coin had been part of a necklace that had broken.
EdZ
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EdZeranski
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hold your(their?) water
| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
In the 1950's I found a Spanish Helmet and Breastplate in the the desert south of Jacumba...Donated them to a museum in San Diego....
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North of there in Anza Borrego's Pinyon wash, 1968, a friend and I found a rock cairn with three intact ollas. We didn't touch them, afraid
they'd break, but walked out backwards taking pictures with an Kodak Instamatic.....waaaaay before GPS. Actually had a hard getting the Rangers
interested. Also have a small collection of 50 cal bullets from WWII aircraft training, mostly from just north of Dos Cabezas.
EdZ
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