Hook
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New info on BOLA from Abraham
The monument to gringo sailers has beaten the power lines into town. 
http://gecko.mystarband.net/
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David K
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Thanks Hook... What is that, a new web page for Camp Gecko by Doc? I miss the cha cha music from the old site!
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Hook
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I really dont know. I saw some info on a fishing website, put campo gecko in google and that was the first thing that came up.
I was surprised at the different look, too.
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Von
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Interesting sails at the entrance to La Gringa......Did know theyd erect that.......
READY SET.....................
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Von
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When did they Put those sails in BOLA? anybody know and who paid for it?
How much?................
READY SET.....................
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Hook
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A better question might be "why"? It's not a particularly popular sailing area, really.
Maybe to welcome all the future sailors coming over on the land bridge?
This has all the earmarks of Fonatur. Put in 100 signs about the Escalera Nautica before anything is ever done.
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Hook -
| Quote: | | It's not a particularly popular sailing area, really |
For good reason, this Escolera is a disaster waiting to happen.
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I can't wait to see the trucks and trailers that supposedly will haul the various boats/sailboats (Just remove mast and keel). Man dats a lot of poles to GN
DON\'T SQUINT! Give yer eyes a break!
Try holding down [control] key and toggle the [+ and -] keys
Viva Mulege!
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I was there a few weeks ago. At that time the sails were a large welding project in progress that required a clasic misguided and unsigned mexican
detor. It also apeared that they were widening the main road through town, complete with 3 foot high cement pillars(for light poles?)
It appeared to me that all this would include a center median, and two lanes in each direction. I could be wrong...but they had enough land graded on
the west side of the road through town to put two extra lanes in.
Typical Mexican urban development.... San Quintin has a huge population and is located on a major transportation corridor; yet, they have no money or
influence... so they get a overloaded two lane road.
BOLA is in the middle of nowhere and has rich gringos, tourists, and real estate speculators.. so they get a 4 lane landscaped boulevard with all the
bells and whistles.
I'm sure there will be enough room for the dogs to sleep in a lane all to their own. Maybe they have plans to connect it with the "bridge to nowhere"
in Alaska just before they turn it into the next Cancun.
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Hook
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Listen, we all know that the economics of the land bridge is shakey at best, especially with the way fuel prices have risen since it was first
proposed. And the number of boaters who might venture down the coast all the way to Santa Rosalillita is much less than they are talking.
But let's not bag on this too hard. We're getting good roads outta this and maybe even F/T electricity to BOLA.
So what if no boats ever cross the land bridge.
It's a silk purse, man.
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Hook, is it as windy at your end as at Daggetts - 3 days now!!! Good website for Gecko's. Hope they take out the curb in the center of the right lane
to make it easier to turn that U to get to La Gringa road. Enjoy you stay.
Sometimes you really do question; why you are and where you are.
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Hook
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Oh, I'm just an innocent bystander on this. I'm stateside. But I wouldnt mind seeing more places have F/T air in the hot months. I might actually
visit in July-Spetember.
[Edited on 2-13-2007 by Hook]
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