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DianaT
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Story of this Cardon???
This cardon on the road from Hwy 1 to the San Borja mission must be about 30 feet tall. The picture was taken quickly while still in the truck, but
on top of the cardon there is what looks like a metal tag of some type.
Can't imagine anyone climbing a cardon, and they don't grow very fast. So does anyone know the story behind this cactus?
Thanks
Diane
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That's easy, that cardon has wireless Internet!
I am looking forward to reading your trip report tonight after dinner, Diane! WOW!!
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Maybe it was tagged when it was much shorter. Maybe it was the guy who wrote the Plant Guide for Baja. I don't have the book with me. But it's the one
whose wife is standing in front of that 60 footer.
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it's a beacon so that aliens can triangulate their way back to what used to be the middle of nowhere....
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Great Responses!
Now, someone has to know!!! Right now, I think I have to go with the Aliens.. 
Or maybe it is the aliens with wireless, the ones writing the plant book.
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BTW
great report, i'm jealous.
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Solarpowered flashing strobe light placed by rockband U-2..
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| Quote: | Originally posted by TW
Maybe it was tagged when it was much shorter. Maybe it was the guy who wrote the Plant Guide for Baja. I don't have the book with me. But it's the one
whose wife is standing in front of that 60 footer. |
Don't think the tag would grow with the cactus...Norman's cactus was I think 86 feet high so this probably wasn't the one.
[Edited on 3-8-2007 by Mexitron]
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In 11 years, the cordons in my yard have grown less than a foot, and they are small ones - larger grow slower, I'm told.
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Cell phone tower?
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Iflyfish
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I think it is just excited to see you!
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its for low flying planes:
jerry and judi
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This was bought up almost exactly a year ago 3-3-2006 
Although the link to the picture is gone since the forum switched.
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=15874#pid1345...
Still a mystery though.....like Stonehenge and the Pyramids...
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That is an intregal part of the RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY-------No touchy!!!!!
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Long pole that extends?
READY SET.....................
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I am not a botanist, but I think that if the object had been implanted many years ago there would have been no further upward growth on that arm of
the cactus.
Growth is simply that- it grows, it does not lift something that is attached.
It probably would have branched out at that point and formed a 'Y' and the item would still be at close to ground zero...
just my uneducated observation.
(there was a great Far Side cartoon years ago of a swing hanging from a limb about 25 feet in the air, and the couple looking up were being wistful
about how it was the swing they used when they were little.... not very scientific, but certainly funny... same theory applies here)
Conclusion, I think that the ancient Aztecs were involved...
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I am beginning to think it is an example of what an anthropolgy professor once told my class---if all else fails, it is called a religious, or
spiritual item. 
I know that somewhere out there, someone knows about this, but they are just not telling. 
Diane
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Like this?
(photo by elgatoloco in Valle Chico, 2001)
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My guess is that the guys who ran that fiberoptic cable all the way south a few years ago were having a little fun on break time with their high-lift
bucket and stuck a broken piece of telcom gear in the top of that poor cactus. I know that's not very fanciful of me, but it sounds plausible in my
little mind.
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBruno
My guess is that the guys who ran that fiberoptic cable all the way south a few years ago were having a little fun on break time with their high-lift
bucket and stuck a broken piece of telcom gear in the top of that poor cactus. I know that's not very fanciful of me, but it sounds plausible in my
little mind. |
A plausible answer, except this cardon is several miles in from Hwy 1 on the road to San Borja---middle of nowhere.
Diane
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