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shari
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Strange creatures at Playa Tomatal
Juan & I took a mini beach combing holiday and as always my favorite beach for finding strange things did not disappoint me. As usual in this
mystical place, the truck inexplicably shut off approaching the beach...doo doo...doo doo
Also as usual, I found something strange the first minute of my walk... maybe one of you are responsible for this?
The beach was littered with jellyfish of the most incredible colours, sizes and shapes...glowing.
I enjoyed giving them names....here are a few more
this one I called Big Foot
this is the jelly family...pappa jelly, mamma jelly and baby jelly
this one has a goblin face in it...scary dude
this is a purple ribbon guy in a mummy bag
a peac-ck jelly...what amazing colours eh!
this one I call SCREAM
and here is a self portrait in the eye of a baby dinosaur
I found 4 dolphin bodies too
there is just something so special about sand dollars that always make me smile.
hope you liked beach combing with me amigos!
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capt. mike
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Aliens?? hell they are already here!!
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
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BajaSerg
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yup they are 
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Skipjack Joe
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SCREAM is my favorite. Great color composition. It's just amazing what treasures you can find.
At Pt Lobos (Carmel) they would say that the spirit of Weston would arrange the rocks every night for us photographers. Of course there is no
evidence of that.
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AlanDow
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Hi Shari,
I did enjoy beachcombing with you – those are some great shots and amazing colors of jelly fish.
Your sand dollar picture raised a question - My wife likes to collect sand dollars wherever we go beachcombing, and if I recall correctly we didn’t
see any on the beach near Asuncion or San Roque when we stayed at your beach house in March, which got me wondering if the time of year is maybe as
much a factor as location regarding where you find them?
Thanks again for some really nice beachcombing pictures
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Mexitron
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Nice pics shari!
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willardguy
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damn, all we have up here are car tires and plastic bottles!
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captkw
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AMEN !! GREAT SHOTS !!!
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tripledigitken
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great jellyfish shots, self-portrait is my pick.
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shari
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Scream was my favorite too....when i was photographing the baby dinosaur, i noticed my reflection in his eye...way cool!
thanks everyone and I'm glad you liked our beach walk...thank goodness for pocket cameras!
good question about sand dollars...they seem to just appear and I really dont know if there is a season but I have found them in Asuncion and san
roque too on occasions.
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David K
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EL TOMATAL: BAJA'S "E.T." !!
How many remember M's famous posts on Amigo's de Baja of her trying to find out why there were weird stone circles and lines just above the high tide
line at El Tomatal... ?
About what she and her friend discovered, that when speaking at the stones, their voices were AMPLIFIED!
Why there were FRESH animal organs placed at the stones, yet no human was in sight... and the 'meat' was fresh under the blazing sun???
When they tried to start the van, the battery was dead as was a spare (fully chrged) battery!
This was so fascinating, I made a web page with M's photos (that survived when her van mysteriously caught on fire, while parked, shortly after the
Baja trip).
SEE THEM (and another who submitted photos from the area after reading M's posts: click 'more on ET'): http://vivabaja.com/et
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bajachris
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Is tomatel the beach south of The Wall?
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windgrrl
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Cool pix, Shari! When we were in your general vicinity this spring, we saw a lot of lobster tails scattered along the beach with no bodies or heads
attached. I am still wondering how they lost their heads! Lots of cool dead stuff on the beach up near Campo Rene, too!
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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Skipjack Joe
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"M"was one of my favorite writers on the board. Anybody know why she doesn't post any more?
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vgabndo
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Trippy.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Eli
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Great pictures, thanks for the walk on the beach with you Shari.
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woody with a view
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i'll be in the area fri-wed. where do you refer to as Tomatal? we went from the big house south about 5 miles once looking for trouble but couldn't
find it.
[Edited on 6-28-2012 by BajaNomad]
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajachris
Is tomatel the beach south of The Wall? |
Yup... here it is at the bottom... (map from Mike Younghusband's walk):
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shari
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the entrance to El Tomatal is right at the military checkpoint south of Jesus Maria.
Woody, it is the same beach that Campo Esmerelda is on with that big yellow house. Rumour has it that it has an indoor swimming pool???? where the
heck do they get the water? the bathroom is tiled in onyx from Rosarito too...sheesh. It sure looks strange in amongst the shacks there.
I used to like to go to this beach when I lived in Guerrero Negro...but now with more houses there, Here are some photos of the cabanas Samuel
built...pretty funky!
I wouldnt want to camp there anymore...that big yellow house kind of spoils the rustic fish camp feel IMHO.
but it is a cool beach to drive on at low tide
in the middle there are some abandoned palapas that have now become osprey condos
We drove the coast road from Rosalillita to the Wall...pretty bumpy couple hours....and rested up at a Flintstone house..the bed is a bit hard though!
Had a nice little visit with our pals at the place that shall not be named Woody....it was a ghost camp.
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Cisco
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
the entrance to El Tomatal is right at the military checkpoint south of Jesus Maria.
Woody, it is the same beach that Campo Esmerelda is on with that big yellow house. Rumour has it that it has an indoor swimming pool???? where the
heck do they get the water? the bathroom is tiled in onyx from Rosarito too...sheesh. It sure looks strange in amongst the shacks there.
I used to like to go to this beach when I lived in Guerrero Negro...but now with more houses there, Here are some photos of the cabanas Samuel
built...pretty funky!
I wouldnt want to camp there anymore...that big yellow house kind of spoils the rustic fish camp feel IMHO.
but it is a cool beach to drive on at low tide
in the middle there are some abandoned palapas that have now become osprey condos
We drove the coast road from Rosalillita to the Wall...pretty bumpy couple hours....and rested up at a Flintstone house..the bed is a bit hard though!
Had a nice little visit with our pals at the place that shall not be named Woody....it was a ghost camp.
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Bet Juan enjoyed the rock work especially.
Shari, is "The Great Wall of Juan" completed now or does he have more planned???
Can it be seen from space?
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