David K
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Guess Where???
Well, as the turkey is about to be served.... I am wondering through Baja (on the Internet today, in person tomorrow) and thought I would post a photo
or two to play with!
Name the person who lives here and the
winner gets a beer and 'got baja?' sticker when we meet!
[Edited on 11-24-2005 by David K]
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comitan
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San Rafael
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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David K
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That's a valid guess. How about the question?
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comitan
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Pancho
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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mcgyver
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San Rafael
TOOOOOOoooo easy David!
Last time I was down there we spent a couple of days, some one is planting palm trees and landscaping just north of Pancho's and there was a big dead
whale just where the cliffs to north start.
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David K
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Correcto-mundo!
Here's Pancho and I (in the center), with a pair of gringo kayakers in April, 2002.
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David K
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Guess where, part 2...
OK, Max said the other was too easy! So, here is an abandoned rancho in the central Baja mountains... It appears on the better Baja maps, but it isn't
even on a road (you need to hike 1/4 mile from the end of the road).
Here is the same ranch in a photo taken about FIFTY years ago!:
What is the name of this old Baja ranch... and how do you get there? (as Neal Johns showed me the way, he is disqualified from answering!)
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mcgyver
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You have got me on this one David! But it sure looks interesting, those old palms! I can not wait to go!
I measured some palms at Rancho Santa Catarina week before last by the hold out your thumb method and they measured in excess of 70 feet, the people
at the rancho of course have no ideal, but say they have been there for ever, I beleive it, eventho the thatch has been burned on them they are
thriving, they have to date back to the mission days or maybe they are natural??
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Barry A.
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David
Is that Rancho San Pedro at the west end of the Valle La Bocana, south of BOLA, and SW of Bahia las Animas???? or maybe Las Venecas???? (neither of
which have I seen, but hope to some day)
Seems like I have seen that picture before in one of Gardner's books, but I cannot find it.
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John M
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How 'bout San Gregorio
'eh?
1997, on the road to San Gregorio (south and east from Mission San Borja)
John M.
[Edited on 11-25-2005 by John M]
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Barry A.
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Now THAT is one beautiful Baja shot-----
John M------it is classic Baja scenes like that one that keep me coming back------
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John M
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Barry, another photo
This was taken also in 1997 on our visit to the San Gregorio area. As we were setting up camp in the late afternoon these two visitors came in. They
live in a ranch that must be half mile or so from our campsite.
Enjoy
[Edited on 11-25-2005 by John M]
[Edited on 11-25-2005 by John M]
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Barry A.
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This "post" is now irrelevant
John------the pic of the young girl and very small child came thru, but only about 2" x 1.5" square.
the other two did not make it?????? (I do not know how to send pics, tho instructions were recently posted by somebody, I seem to recall. As I do
not have a digital, nor a scanner, I guess I cannot send pics.)
[Edited on 11-25-2005 by Barry A.]
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John M
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Another - same area
This is the building David posted on our visit in '97
kinda blurry, I'll try to fix that - John
[Edited on 11-25-2005 by John M]
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Barry A.
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Absolutely amazing how much greener it is-----
in your pics, John, than in the Gardner photo and David K's more recent photo-------it is almost "tropical" in your 1997 shots-----shows you what a
little rain will do.
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John M
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Thanks Barry
I replaced two of my original posting photos, thanks for the encouraging word. I had scanned them initially with Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and lo and
behold, using Paint Shop Pro 6.0 made them clearer and for some reason the size images now posted are much smaller in kbs than the Adobe photo shop
images...Sure don't know why! John
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