mcfez
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Baja Legends
The first few chapters is really about the history of Baja...which I dont really much care about. I like real info that helps me in real time. After
the few class 101 chapters...it's a amazing book!
If you are the type of person who likes to lodge information in your brain for later recall than this book is for you. This is a great book for
reference for that trip to Baja or to recall when you take friends down and pull a "did you know that...." About three fourths of the book is
dedicated to the regions of Baja that are in the North, down as far as San Quintin. Central Baja south to Cabo is covered in the rest of the book.
Get the book before you travel!
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Mcfez, Since you're a San Felipe fan, as am I,
ran across a bit of history, can't remember where,
that the Army Corp of Enginners improved the road
to San Felipe from Mexicalli in WWII, and had some sort of
Submarine Lookout in San Felipe, I assume to watch for
subs, ships, that might come up the Cortez.
I would guess it may have been on top of,
I believe it's called Punta Machorro, the 900' butte that
marks the no. end of San Felipe Bay, about 6 blks
no. of the Malecon. I enjoy the Peninsula hostory
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
The first few chapters is really about the history of Baja...which I dont really much care about. I like real info that helps me in real time. After
the few class 101 chapters...it's a amazing book!
If you are the type of person who likes to lodge information in your brain for later recall than this book is for you. This is a great book for
reference for that trip to Baja or to recall when you take friends down and pull a "did you know that...." About three fourths of the book is
dedicated to the regions of Baja that are in the North, down as far as San Quintin. Central Baja south to Cabo is covered in the rest of the book.
Get the book before you travel! |
Have you read page 134 yet?  
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DENNIS
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BAJA LEGENDS
http://www.gregniemann.com/bajalegends.html
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bajaguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
The first few chapters is really about the history of Baja...which I dont really much care about. I like real info that helps me in real time. After
the few class 101 chapters...it's a amazing book!
If you are the type of person who likes to lodge information in your brain for later recall than this book is for you. This is a great book for
reference for that trip to Baja or to recall when you take friends down and pull a "did you know that...." About three fourths of the book is
dedicated to the regions of Baja that are in the North, down as far as San Quintin. Central Baja south to Cabo is covered in the rest of the book.
Get the book before you travel! |
Have you read page 134 yet? |
Does it have to do with FMT's or FMM's????? 
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sancho
Mcfez, Since you're a San Felipe fan, as am I,
ran across a bit of history, can't remember where,
that the Army Corp of Enginners improved the road
to San Felipe from Mexicalli in WWII, and had some sort of
Submarine Lookout in San Felipe, I assume to watch for
subs, ships, that might come up the Cortez.
I would guess it may have been on top of,
I believe it's called Punta Machorro, the 900' butte that
marks the no. end of San Felipe Bay, about 6 blks
no. of the Malecon. I enjoy the Peninsula hostory |
The United States maintained a radar station at San Felipe during WWII in case the Japanese Imperial Navy tried to invade us via Yuma, AZ following
the Colorado up from the delta. The road was said to be constructed by the U.S. to service the facility... It was paved a few years after the war
ended... Greg says it was 1951 when it was finished... I also have seen the year 1955 given.
The 'Pole Line Road' that Ken Cooke and The Squarecirale, TW and others have traveled on was built to service the telephone line to San Felipe the
United States installed. The line connected the existing phone line to Ensenada from the U.S. with San Felipe.
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mcfez
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
The first few chapters is really about the history of Baja...which I dont really much care about. I like real info that helps me in real time. After
the few class 101 chapters...it's a amazing book!
If you are the type of person who likes to lodge information in your brain for later recall than this book is for you. This is a great book for
reference for that trip to Baja or to recall when you take friends down and pull a "did you know that...." About three fourths of the book is
dedicated to the regions of Baja that are in the North, down as far as San Quintin. Central Baja south to Cabo is covered in the rest of the book.
Get the book before you travel! |
Have you read page 134 yet? |
yeah...nothing special on that page...why? 
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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David K
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okay  
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tjBill
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I have read parts of it and I really like it; goes into details of various landmarks. Can easily make one an expert on Baja.
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mcfez
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Okay David....you waited long enough
We can read about the "famous" David Kier in this book. ....on page 134!
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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BajaBlanca
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we have this book too and everyone who visits loves it ... it is handy and interesting and just plain ole fun.
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David K
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No, you guys are the only bunch where I am so well known!
On that page, Greg provided the story I once told him as it was told to me back in 2000 up at a camp in the San Pedro Martir... made a fun story...
I didn't know it was going into the book until after I read the m/s! I was one of the Baja folks that Greg asked to review and check the data... Book
was published in 2002.
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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My dad assisted that station logistically in 1943 and recounted with not a little bitterness about the time a bunch of naval officers gathered pickup
loads of plywood, tar paper and corrugated metal to assist poor people in "San Flippi" who has suffered a terrible storm. He said that Aduana in
Mexicali demanded a hundred dollars to let the stuff across. My dad said the average pay for a sailor in 1943 was sixteen dollars a month. They turned
around and went back to "Dago". My dad never forgave Mexico for that.
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Just south of San Felipe is "'Campo Radar" This is between San Felipe and Punta Estella. Figure that there must have been some reason to name it
Radar. It is near the North end of the mountains so probably the radar station was somewhere around there.
I think around K8 or 9.
[Edited on 2-17-2011 by bajalou]
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