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Natalie Ann
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Air, Land, Sea - Bahia San Luis Gonzaga
The fever's got me bad these days. My bags remain packed from my last trip. But for now all I can do is dream.
I've posted a few nothing-special photos taken at one of my most favorite spots on this earth, Gonzaga Bay - good place to dream about 
Just click here:
http://www.bajacaliforniaconservation.org/phpbb/viewtopic.ph...
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
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bajajudy
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Beautiful...thanks.
One place I have never been to.....maybe next time!
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Bajadtodebone
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Bahia San Louis Ganzaga
Natalie Ann, beautiful, I can see why you feel the way you do. I may be even prettier than BOLA. I'll have to stop by there on a trip down. I
couldn't make out the detail but are those structures along the beach or RV's? 
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Bob H
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This is one of our favorite places to visit. There are about 70 homes along the spit there along the bay. Alfonsinas cantina/motel is at the very
tip. It's so peaceful and quite there and along Papa Fernandez beach area (unless the wind picks up). But when the water is like glass and you have
a kayak out there, it's unreal. That area will change if they ever pave that road. The rough road keeps a lot of people from going out there.
Bob H
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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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajadtodebone
Natalie Ann, beautiful, I can see why you feel the way you do. I may be even prettier than BOLA. I'll have to stop by there on a trip down. I
couldn't make out the detail but are those structures along the beach or RV's? |
They're a mix of homes and trailers with cabanas/ palapas built around them... That is Alfonsina's.
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Natalie Ann
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob H
This is one of our favorite places to visit. There are about 70 homes along the spit there along the bay. Alfonsinas cantina/motel is at the very
tip. It's so peaceful and quite there and along Papa Fernandez beach area (unless the wind picks up). But when the water is like glass and you have
a kayak out there, it's unreal. That area will change if they ever pave that road. The rough road keeps a lot of people from going out there.
Bob H |
You're right, Bob, and I sure wish one of those homes was mine..... or even belonged to a friend of mine
As for Alfonsina's, it looks like this from down the beach:
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Natalie Ann
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....and this from in front of the cantina:
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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Natalie Ann
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....and the back looked like this on President's Day weekend, lotsa folks there:
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
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John M
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Sunrise at Gonzaga Bay
From the porch at Alfonsina's as we sipped early morning coffee.
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David K
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Here is from the south looking north along the homes of Alfonsina's...
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David K
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Here is looking a bit more towards the bay and island...
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jrbaja
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Is this another one of those
quaint Mexican villages I hear so much about?
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David K
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... and as I swing the lens out more to the east...
This was Thanksgiving 2003...
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David K
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Final shot facing east...
This is actually Ensenada de San Francisquito, the larger bay, south of Bahia San Luis Gonzaga Island... but nobody calls it that! LOL
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Natalie Ann
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Lovely sunrise, John M. Thanks.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
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jrbaja
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Better check yer maps there Cartographer!
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jrbaja
quaint Mexican villages I hear so much about? |
Yes, like La Barca, only nicer...
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jrbaja
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Now that was funny!
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jrbaja
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I am not a cartographer, they get paid! I am a Baja history buff and map collector. The Spanish named the bays, the smaller well protected bay is San
Luis Gonzaga and the larger open bay is Ensenada de San Francisquito... Here is Gulick's map, and I can also scan Crosby's El Camino Real maps which
show the same. The Mexican cartographers goofed up and reversed the two bays' names... and that you can see in the Almanac (one of the corrections I
would submit to Landon)...
Why the larger bay was named San Francisquito Harbor (Ensenada)? Well, just up the arroyo San Francisquito (which drains into that bay after merging
with Arroyo Santa Maria) is the water hole 'San Francisquito' on the El Camino Real (next to Las Arrastras)... Also, today's Punta Final Resort was
originally known as Puerto San Francisquito where gold ore was shipped out from Molino de San Francisquito (later renamed Molino de Lacy, after
William Lacy's death)... So lot's of San Francisquitos attached to that bigger half of 'Gonzaga Bay'!
We won't even get into the boaters calling Gonzaga Bay, Willard Bay! That's another chapter!
[Edited on 8-10-2005 by David K]
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capt. mike
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paved road.......easy access........motels........condos........a boat service......
an electric plant...........LOTSA 24/7 ICE!!!! jet ski rentals......
Alfi's......2015!
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
\"Remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over....\"
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