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JZ
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Best anon post yet! One even Bruce would agree with!
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David K
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Yes that person should be elevaded to Super Nomad the day he/she registers!
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eetdrt88
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damn,coming home from work to see this post...
is awesome,i swear to god i just took about a five minute break from daily life and kinda strolled right thru a few heavenly moments as i read the
posts here....i have to agree on the border being the worst part ofthe deal of coming down to baja....as far as the best there are quite a few
beginning with Gonzaga Bay and especially Punta Final...that place i'm finding very hard to ever stop thinking about
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Bob H
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A most beautiful spot in Baja for us is Gonzaga Bay! One of the ugliest places are those apartment buildings just south of Ensenada on the way to
Maneadero, on the West side of MX-1 that have the patio areas with fence screening on them. U-G-L-Y
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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Most beautiful Baja areas are: Dawn and hot cowboy coffee on a foggy mountain camp in remote Gigantas with the quail and white-wing doves making
their sooothing morning wake-up calls...which really does sound like...."Wake up, you fool, ..wake up, you fool." Then glassing a bighorn sheep on a
hike up into the heights, or surprising a desert muley in the valleys. Watching a crested hawk take a rabbit...or seacliff-lunch eaten by an osprey.
Being in the middle of a pod of finback whales as they circled and eyeballed us...only once, but wishing for more of the same, please!
Least beautiful?...manmade scars mostly..I try to forget them quickly. Viva Baja!~ samhain/ambrose j. small.
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Mike Supino
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Did you have your gun or harpoon with you?
Therianthropic
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Yes, indeed I did, Mike....great shooter, too...a Leica Model R9 35mm SLR w/ssp of 16-1/8000 seconds. Got quite a few good shots and never missed
once.
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DanO
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I agree with Bigzaggin on Bahia Soledad as one of the prettiest places in El Norte, just breathtaking, but yeah, some weird juju is goin' on over
there. And there's some ugliness happening too -- earlier this year, the guy that owns the land on the south end of the bay, on the other side of the
ridge from Puerto Santo Tomas, put a trailer on the road on the PST side of the ridge and posted a "security guard" there 24/7/365. He'll let you
pass if you tell him you're just going to make a phone call (the peak of that ridge is the only place to get a solid cell signal down there).
According to the locals, he's there to prevent the PST fishermen from setting up squatter's camps on his boss's land on the other side. However, the
rumor mill says his boss is locked in a feud with the guy that rents cabins just south of the port, over land rights which are now in the spotlight
because of all of the development rumors. People are peeed off that they are being hassled when they go up there. One of my Mexican buddies told the
security guard that he had no right to prevent people from using a public road (apparently, there is a dispute as to whether the trailer is on the
owner's property, someone else's, or a public thoroughfare) and drove on past. The security guard's response was to heave a couple of rocks at my
friend's truck. I suspect this will not have a happy ending.
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bajalera
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Can't make up my mind on the best, but the worst is easy: the Guerrero Negro but station in the middle of the night, with an icy wind blowing open the
doors no matter what the season. I've made that trip twice, but even once would have been too many times.
Lera
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
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bigzaggin
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Soledad...
I had heard a little about that but am sorry to hear it confirmed. That place has always been so damn odd...so beautiful and isolated and yet kind
of creepy. I have camped there a few times but always felt like I was being "watched." Maybe I was? At some point, the entire bay was for sale...is
it still (not that I'm buying, but curious).
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bajalou
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First time I heard a banos called a "but station"
No Bad Days
\"Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference\"
\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
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no...that would be a 'butt station' at the bus station.
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DanO
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BZ
I'll bet you were being watched. My wife and I went over there once in the early 90s, when the road was nearly impassable even on a motorcycle, and
found what looked like a recently abandoned drip fertilization and irrigation setup. And a travel trailer across the canyon with its windows open and
the curtains moving, but there was no breeze. One of the Gomez brothers at Bocana told me later that I was crazy to go over there. I suspect it's
different now, since someone has built a couple of pretty nice houses on the site.
I don't know if the bay property is on the market, but there is an apparently land-locked parcel up on the mesa overlooking it that's listed for a
paltry $350,000. Get it while it's hot (and report back on how crappy the road is getting in).
http://www.bajaquest.com/re560/
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Diver
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Sam,
Your photo shows the best view I have ever seen of my favorite place to relax in Baja ! I have already sent it to a few friends that could never
before understand my feelings for the place. They can all understand now !
Thank you, thank you !!
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grace59
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The most beautiful spot in the Baja is the one you are seeing for the first time...I love Baja because there are so many beautiful things to see:
desert, the sea, waterfalls, the people The ugliest thing in Baja...the
border crossing on the way back home...I hate having to leave...someday hopefully, I won't have to.
Whenever I hear that rainy, chill wind blow. I think it may be time to head for Mexico. Tengo que obedecer mi corazon!
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LaRibereņa
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Worst is the drive between Constitution and La Paz - BORING! Especially when we're so close to home (East Cape) and the drive seems to last forever.
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bajalera
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And speaking of the butt facilities at the buS station, those were pretty dang windy too.
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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Airy bathrooms in Baja?
these in Tokyo are very open and airy...although maybe a teeeeny bit cleaner than the butt stations in Baja !
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Skipjack Joe
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best and worst
best: a moonless starry night sky as viewed from a beach on the northern cortez when the winds are absent.
worst: running the gauntlet through Ensenada. Also, the drive from san quintin to colonet is no longer baja for me.
Good thread. I often think about this sort of thing. The 'best' changes from year to year for me.
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capn.sharky
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Tijuana is pretty ugly. For me, Loreto is the most beautiful place. I have been all over the world and there is one other in Australia---Noosa north
of Brisbane.
Why Loreto? I have been going there for over 30 years and still love it. At night when they turn on the lights in the bell tower of the church, it
is just magnificiant. Yes, Conception Bay is beautiful too. And many other areas. But for me, my love is Loreto. So tranquil, the people so kind
and friendly and the sea and mountains. Loreto is paradise to me. Hopefully, the Canadians won't ruin it too much.
If there is no fishing in heaven, I am not going
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