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shari
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Yes, Kevin came down for our spanish immersion program and well...I guess we did well as he totally immersed and is now part of the community...and
dearly loved by all. He now lives in the little orange house beside casa naranja, and is the neighbourhood security guard handyman drinkin buddy.
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jorgie
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HE DRINKS ?? In Asuncion ?????
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Osprey
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Maybe Asuncion is like La Ribera, a quaint little drinking village with a fishing problem.
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Bajagypsy
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No body ever drinks in Asuncion!!
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Wiles
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
these two were spoonin! pretty romantic huh! |
Shari, thanks for the pictures and narrative. Almost makes me feel as if I've spent the day on/in the water.
Abalone sex? Quite the opposite of the recent and accurate descriptions of whale sex. When the time is right, abalone release their sperm/eggs into
the water. It's called 'broadcast fertilization' They just wing it out there and hope for the best. The odds of a successful fertilization are
astronomical thus requiring a tremendous quanity of eggs/ sperm to be released. That is why you rarely if ever only find 1 ab per rock. The
succuessful range of fertiliztion is only about 4 feet. Many abs spend their entire life on one rock.
As a side note, it was interesting to see 3 people per boat working the abs. All the commercial ab divers I knew in So. Cal always worked solo. They
were hard core.
Ab fondu is fantastic.
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shari
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Wow, thanks for that ab info but I still think those 2 were kissing(or smething) It is law to have 2 men on the panga, one just to tend to the diver
and make sure his hooka is functioning properly and one man on the oars or motor...it can be pretty rough on the open pacific here so the boatman must
concentrate to keep them off the rocks and on the diver.
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Skipjack Joe
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When I went out with the pangeros (pangueros?) at Asuncion to collect algae there were 3 in the boat. One was over the side. The other was on the oars
the whole time keeping it off the rocks. The third was working the compressor, bundling and storing the algae the diver brought up.
Personally I thought the diver should be paid for most of the work but I'm pretty sure the guy at the oars got the lion's share of it.
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Actually the work is pretty evenly shared...particularly in harvesting sea weed as the diver only has to pick it..the tender and boatman have to take
it to town, spread it all out, turn it a couple times a day, sprinkle water on it, then pick it all up and store it, then bundle it...etc etc...so
they put in A LOT of extra time where the diver only works a few hours a day. The same for caracol...the 2 guys have to spend hours breaking all the
shells and taking out the meat while the diver only works a coule hours diving. Abalone divers make more though than the tenders as they don't have to
do anything but turn in the product...the boat man is responsible for all the boat stuff, maintenance of the engine, hull, compressor, anchoring
stuff, getting fuel, going out to get the panga etc...so the work is shared by all. The good thing about being the diver is you are done your job when
you surface and get to go home before lunchtime whereas the tenders have other stuff to be responsible for.
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fishbuck
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They should hire me as the diver! I work cheep and I might even pay to do it.
This could be a new business for you and Juan. "Jaun for a day" or "The Asuncion Aprentice program for Gringos" or ...
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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Barbareno
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajagypsy
No body ever drinks in Asuncion!! |
Alone. 
Barb
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Bajaboy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barbareno
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajagypsy
No body ever drinks in Asuncion!! |
Alone.
Barb |
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it fall......
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shari
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Barbareno is a wise woman indeed. We had santa-anna hot dry conditions today...tecate sales skyrocketed I'm sure...we're back to san roque tomorrow
for next weeks abalone harvest...ahhhhhh
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Here is a link to a weather site I found that actually claims to forecast for Bahia Asuncion.
http://www.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=...
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There is a small weather station up near the cell tower---up on the hill, slightly inland, and the hottest part of town. Quite sure that is from
where they pull their information.
It definitely has no relationship to the weather at Diverlandia, or even downtown.
Diane and John
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Since Accuweather shows 87 degrees at 10 o'clock at night I would venture to say that there is not a reporting station at Bahia Asuncion. If there is
one you had better get it checked.
I know some of the weather pages use a regional reporting station as representative for all the locations. One (don't remember which) uses Guaymas as
a reporting location for Punta Abreojos. Go figure.
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shari
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Actually last night was super weird night...very hot...santa anna condition...we were with the flying medicos partying in San Roque and just in our t
shirts and shorts!!!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by rts551
Since Accuweather shows 87 degrees at 10 o'clock at night I would venture to say that there is not a reporting station at Bahia Asuncion. If there is
one you had better get it checked.
I know some of the weather pages use a regional reporting station as representative for all the locations. One (don't remember which) uses Guaymas as
a reporting location for Punta Abreojos. Go figure. |
Could be, but there is a small weather station---have to show it to you next time you are there---but its location is crazy for the idea of anything
accurate. May be warmer now, but 87 at 10 at night? That I would have to see to believe.
You could be correct however. Then I suppose I would need to apologize . 
See ya
Diane
[Edited on 4-13-2008 by jdtrotter]
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rts551
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Maybe it is 87??????
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shari
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naaahhhh. wasn't 87 but it was darn hot...very strange.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by rts551
Maybe it is 87?????? |
Well, I will tell you that it gets above 120 on our front porch---we bought a cheap thermometer, put in outside in the front window sill and bingo, it
got so hot that it broke!
Now don't go telling me that it might have been caused by being in direct line of the setting sun----no, no, thermometers don't lie---120 degrees on
our front porch.
[Edited on 4-13-2008 by jdtrotter]
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