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Sharksbaja
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 I AM IMPRESSED!
If u keep writin these stories up i'll never get out of here........... good day to go to Baja. bye...click...zoom
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Hook
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Great story, Rogelio.....
....if I may call you that.
Gad, what a party yacht that looks like.......uh, the Wild Goose, I mean. 
So, the beaches you describe are on the inside the bay, correct? Not on the outside, right?
I realize that the fishing story was on the outside.
ARe you still living down there?
I will certainly give the Dead Dog beach area a wide berth..........unless my wife is not with me that day. 
[Edited on 2-10-2005 by Hook]
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Bob and Susan
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Remember the age of these friends and ladies....Please Please give a wide berth....and wear sunglasses for sure
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Hook...those real good anchorages are all on the inside bay. There are some spots along the outside coast that are okay in spring and summer, but
definetley not for winter or inexperieced sailors...very dangerous reefs just under surface, but that makes for great lobster diving!
Bob & Susan....didn't I see you guys skinny-dipping over at Dead Dog a couple weeks ago?
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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KurtG
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Pompano,
My name was also on the wall in the bar at the Hacienda from about that time, 1974. It was a sad day when Arron Funk who was leasing the Hacienda
around '90 or '91 decided to redecorate and painted over all those signatures. Alfonso was very upset over it but it was done without his consent.
To me all those names on the wall, famous or not, represented some wonderful memories. BTW, I grew up a little east of you in northern Minnesota
(Deer River) so at least one of us out here understands when you talk about fishing for walleyes. Best fish dinner I ever had was a shore lunch of
fresh caught walleyes fried in beer batter on the shore of Lake of the Woods. We had our limit early in the day so decided the sensible thing was to
eat a bunch of them and then go catch the limit again.
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Skeet/Loreto
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Thanks for all the Good Old Stories!!
Pomp; It was my understanding that John Wayne owned the Hill right above the Posada.Where all the Houses are hanging on the cliffs. True/False
I met Jil St. John at the la Casitas in Mulege one Night, she was suppose to be buying one of the Coves in the Bahia.
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Hook
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Well, that means you can eat.....
.....at the little restaurant in Coyote whenever you want. What is the mamacita's name who runs it? Some of the best mexican and marisco combinaciones
I have ever had. Still no gringo pricing, either!
I will look you up when I next cruise in. Skip 25 F/B, no time for sailing until I retire.
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Pompano
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KurtG...glad to talk to another walleye eater..they are something else in a pan with fried onions, spuds, fresh bread & butter, plus a cool
one..and on an island is mandatory. I fished most of last summer on Lake of the Woods. We have a place on the Rainy River about 6 miles east of
Baudette where Silver Creek enters Rainy. Got lots of nice wallys out on the big lake using clip-on weights and down-rigging No. 5 Rapalas (a little
smaller than those we gave to John Wayne!) I've fished those delicious fish from coast to coast north and south...east and west. Best places for big
fish are not necessarily my favorites. I really like the Canadian Pre-Cambrian rockshield lakes of the far north. Taken lots of float and canoe
trips up there. A walleye shore lunch=Valhalla. It has to do with the setting, I suppose.
On those autographed walls at the Hacienda saloon and patio..that loco Aaron was really off the mark, for sure. I knew him quite well...he stills
owes me a lot of money. In 1974 Randy and I stayed in the first little room to the left as you entered the hotel courtyard. I remember it was $4 a
night. We went into that little bar and signed our names up on the left corner wall. Many years later when Aaron painted over all those hundreds of
names with his Baja 'stick men' and other petroglyph fakes..we thought he'd lost his mind and were ready to tar and feather him. I see Alfonso quite
often and he stills misses that nostalgia. (I flew with Alfonso many years ago when he still had a plane.) I remember seeing Aaron a year or so
later when he was leaving Mulege for the last time heading north to LA. He was driving that bus of his. I tried to flag him down to get my money,
but he kept on going like he didn't see me...so I took possession of 2 small cargo trailers he had stored. What goes around, comes around.
Skeet/Loreto...I was a 1/5 owner in one of the first stone houses built on that hill overlooking Posada in the early 70's. Herman Morante owned the
land and was a shrewd businessman..and knew the benefits of giving some land to John Wayne as a sales promotion to future lot buyers. I thought
Herman was a very nice guy...of course, I had dated his daughter before I got married and used to bring him Cuban cigars from the mainland. I heard
that story about Wayne owning some land or a small house on the hill, but never saw any sign of it myself in the time I spent there.
Hook, the gal from the roadside cafe you mentioned?....was she one of the most beautiful creatures you have ever seen?.. must be Celia...unfortunately
gone to Canada these last 3-4 years..with the kids. Nowadays, the cafe is run by Bony and Mercedes. That whole thing is another story in itself.
Never a dull moment in our community. Indeed, the chile rellenos are
incredible...and the seafood combo.
Ah, man...all this remembering old times has me wanting to do it all again...and maybe I will.
Here's what Posada looked like back then from my balcony on the hill...note I had a palapa roof then too! A fire wiped out all the palapas roofs and
buildings you see down there at Posada. I think the damage was estimated at 1.3 million in the LA Times.
[Edited on 10-26-2014 by Pompano]
[Edited on 10-26-2014 by Pompano]
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RJM
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Pompano,
Very good story. I once camped at Coyote back I think in 1974 or 1975. I remember getting the only tree on the beach as a site for a week without
having another gringo come bye. I think it must of been the beach just to the north of the picture you posted. I next came back in about 1984 or 1985
and had to camp next to motor homes and trailers. We ended up camping over on the point just at the tip of Conception and had a wonderful time fishing
the reefs off the point. I will be down to Mulege in May with my boat and might spend a couple of days fishing the bay. What do you think the fishing
will be like for Yellowtail in May? I will try you a couple of times on Channel 16 to get an update if you are in the area. Again, thanks for sharing
the story about the Duke.
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Pompano,
Thanks for the information. We are planning on spending a week with friends in BOLA and then the rest of the time around La Paz. I have always wanted
to fish around Isla Espiritu Santo and camp on it if it is still legal to do so. What a pretty home; I bet the palms make your place a paradise. My
wife informed me that we must of camped at Coyote in 1978 because our kids were 2 and 4 years old then. I am looking forward to seeing Mulege again. I
hope our paths cross.
Bob
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Hook
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Wasnt the restaurant
called Berta's? That the one I'm thinking of.
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Pompano
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Hook..I thought you meant our Coyote Bay cafe, Estrella del Mar...or better known as 'Bony's'..that's where Celia was. The one you mentioned,
'Bertha's' is just the next beach north at Burros Beach..a short hike. Her food is good, too..and my personal all-time favorite is her seafood
soup..mariscos del mar. But be prepared to wait a little bit. Kind of famous for the delay time between ordering and eating! Bertha has limited
cooking applianes..but is steadily improving over the years. A while back, we were used to waiting 45 min - 1 hour for our orders....gave you time to
sample a few Pacificos and read some of the books on the shelves. Also her giant pancake is drooled after...don't order by yourself, though....it's
HUGE and enough for 4. She makes it in a 12 inch pan and it's 2 inches thick.
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Pomp
thanks again for all the good stories and info. Starting in 1973 the first weed the Road opened I have put many many miles going past the Posada.
Do you know the story behing the House up on the Hill at coyote? There was an old Bus of sometype there for years. I heard that it was owned by two
LongBeach Fireman.
Did you get to know that Ed and Marva had moved back to the States now living at Kingman?
Short Story: Ed and Marva where having a party in Loreto, I was invited to come and bring a dish, instead I sent it with there Daughter. I had been
catching Rattlesnakes, curing the Skins at that time and had a lot of Meat, so I smoked up a couple of Pounds of good white Snake Meat, told them it
was "needleFish and got a report the next day that everyone wanted to know how I prepared that "NeddleFish".
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Pompano
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Skeet...what a surprise they must have had when they found out about that rattlesnake meat.
I have had it quite a few times when I was growing up in the Badlands of North Dakota...had lots around..especially under hay bales.
The house up on the hill you mentioned is our old friend, Jake, who is indeed a retired LA fireman...but he is the only owner. He was my neighbor 30
years ago at Posada too, when he had a trailer and palapa right below me..we had some fun times back then. Lots younger, naturally, and could party
with the best of them. His next door neighbor then was a famous Hollywood film director, John Sturges..made films lilke Dirty Dozen, Bad Day at Eagle
Rock, Kelly's Heroes, etc. Jake is quite a character and worthy of a story or two...which I will post one of these fine days.
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Pompano and all the other 'veteranos'!!
Thanks for the great reading on a rainy day in So Cal!
Keep 'em coming!
Wish I was in Baja!
MAGA
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Hook
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John Sturges
directed some pretty good movies......and some mediocre ones. He's probably best remembered for The Great Escape with Steve McQueen and The Old Man
and the Sea with Spencer Tracy. But he also directed the Duke in McQ. It was made in 1974. Based on your previous story, maybe Sturges met the Duke
on that film and the Duke told him about Concepcion Bay. Quien sabe?
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