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Miette
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A few photos of my favorite campsite
Here's a few photos of my favorite campsite. These photographs were taken at Sirenita Beach, BCS.
(August 2005)
This photo was taken at dawn from the door of my tent at dawn.
This is the same beach at short distance from the photo above.
I was told the name of the beach is derived from this permanent resident.
She is also seen in the photo above.
I loved these granite "marbles". A peculiar sound keep me awake the first night.
It turned out that it was the sound that the "marbles"
make on the other side of this cove as the ocean polishes them.
This little fellow woke me up, too!
Hermie and his friends would have a nightly party.
The could make an amazing amount of noise for their size.
I got about 5 minutes of sleep my first night on this beach.
The cows on the ridge above me were kind enough
to clank their bells so that I would not miss the pre-dawn light.
I slept quite soundly my second night.
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Sharksbaja
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Cool pics. What kinda critter is that? Looks like something from Australia.
Is that an isolated place?
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Miette
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I was hoping someone would tell me what kind of critter it was.
The noise he made scrabbling through the rocks to go by my campsite took about five years off my life expectancy!
Here's the first shot-
Here's the second shot-
Here's the critter running away-
The beach? It is reached either by boat or by a 20 minute hike from another more popular beach.
So, it depends on your personal definition of "isolated".
I would call it secluded, but not isolated.
[Edited on 12-16-2008 by Miette]
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Fun Guys..
Mietta, the cute bandito is called a or RINGTAIL, or Miner's cat.
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Good for you, Mietta. I've seen many of these neat little guys around my Baja house and throughout desert areas of Baja. You most often
notice them bouncing across the road at night...coming out of some boulders at the side of the highway, zooming out a few feet, suddenly seeing the
danger, then doing an immediate 180 flip and zinging back to cover in the rocks. The acrobats of the midnight run.
Kids in Mulege keep them as pets...sometimes wearing them on thier shoulders with a little leash. A cousin to coatamundis. They are also great
mousers if kept in your house...and used to be called Miner's cats by the early settlers and miners. It's a member of the raccoon family about the
size of a small house cat. It's nocturnal, omnivorous, and found in rocky desert areas throughout SW and northern Mexico..I have seen them as far
north as Wyoming.
They're very agile and great climbers. A bit timid at first, they soon become good camp guests, as you found out. But like raccoons, they do tend
to get a little mischievious. Generally solitary and it's rare to see 2 together except at breeding times in the spring.
Some people in the SW US call them civet cats, but that's a cat of Africa and not related to this species, although they do have this in common..
these guys can give off a bad odor from leg glands when confronted.
Glad you had the experience, Mietta. I really like these little fellows, looking like a cross between a fox and a raccoon. Ringtails are good to have
around and always remind me of good times. I had the northern cousins, raccoons, as pets while I was a tadpole..and we had some times!
[Edited on 12-16-2008 by Pompano]
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Miette
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Pompano
Thanks for all the info on my little visitor. That fluffy, striped tail reminded me of raccoons; but California raccoons are usually not as sleek as
this guy was.
I had the tiniest amount of smoked Blue Marlin belly meat in my tent cooler. I had it well protected and I was not about to share with him!
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Paula
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Up in the Sierra de San Francisco they call a ringtail a bobasur, with the accent on the last syllable. I'm not sure I spelled it right, but that is
the name. And I'm not sure if that is the "official" name fro these cute animals, or a regional thing.
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Paula, I think it is Babisuri.
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Thanks, Osprey, that looks like a better spelling
Nice pictures of him, Miette. The one I met was very shy and hard to photograph. I have a nice one of those big eyes peering out of a palm tree.
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When we camped at Malarrimo, we woke up to hundreds of this guy's paw prints all around our camp....I mean 100's. They had dragged away the sandy
steaks from the night before...for that we were thankful. Anyone who has camped there knows what happens when the wind blows.....sand in your
everything.
Great shots!
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David K
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Babisuri
Ring-tailed cat (Babisuri; cacomixtle). A nocturnal relative of the racoon, with a black and white striped tail longer than its body, the babisuri
lives in great numbers in the rocky cliffs near date palm groves. It is also found on Espiritu Santo and San Jose Islands. (from the Lower Califonia
Guidebook)
This photo of a babisuri on Isla San Jose was taken by 'Alejandra de Baja', who requested that the villagers not kill it, so it is on a leash here.
The babisuri comes into homes on the island searching for food.
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Pompano
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Around Loreto and Mulege..they are called gato montes....so Manuel and Eduardo tell me just now. I calls 'em ringtails.
Nope, wait......gato montes are much bigger, they now tell me.
Eduardo is holding out his hands WAY wide...I believe he means a puma..mountain lion...sigh.
Manuel is laughing a little bit now..cretin.
All 3 of us have decided to call it ...ringtail.
We all go outside to talk to Noel..a known expert on animals. He says he doesn't know or care and that I have way too much time on my hands and
should go fishing or something and let him get back to his concrete work. Such is life.
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Now Eduardo brings Marie and the new baby over to look at the RINGTAIL ..grr...on my computer screen and she says that is definetely a 'gatia'...hoo
boy...
I have decided to call it a cacomistle. 
..and this baby shall be called: Tonalyl...ancient Aztec for Ringtail.
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In the fruit world, the same fruit goes by different names by different people... There are hundreds of varieties of bananas for example... and any
one variety can be called by a dozen different names or even lumped together under one name like 'apple banana' or 'lady finger'.
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In the fur cap world, many cacomistle caps are called by different names...but they are all warm.
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Miette
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Thanks for the identification and all the comments.
I was pretty amazed that I got the shot of the
critter. It was late or very early. I was shaking from
the unidentifiable commotion going on about 10 feet
from my tent
When I peeked out and saw this
guy I was quite relieved. After that I got up to catch the
crack-of-dawn show!
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Skipjack Joe
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I think you're very lucky to have seen one of these guys, Miette. They're very shy. I've don't think I've seen more than two in my lifetime.
Raccoons, on the other hand. They're a real pest around here. Every night I hear the clanging of garbage cans below my window. Often accompanied by
loud hisssing sounds. Some of them must be fighting over the chicken bones.
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Isn't that the cove at the point where the snorkling boats go at Cabo Pulmo?
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Los Arbolitos verdad??
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wilderone
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ok -lemme see if this works. Was at Cabo Pulmo last August - here's that cove:
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another one - a really pretty spot with lots of awesome fish
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| Quote: | Originally posted by wilderone
ok -lemme see if this works. Was at Cabo Pulmo last August - here's that cove:
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A beautiful cove, wilderone. Alex and I snorkeled there a few summers ago and saw a ton of fish. The pompanos would almost swim up to our noses. The
sanctuary seems to really affect their behavior.
Your picture would have been a perfect addition to marv's calendar.
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