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Ken Bondy
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Short final, landing to the north, Punta San Francisquito, circa 1980
One of my old diving friends told me, decades ago, that when we are too old to dive we will just sit around all day going through our pictures. It's
starting to happen.....
carpe diem!
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jbcoug
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Aren't you glad you have those memories to recall?
\"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.\" Andy Rooney
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Ken Bondy
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YES! I wasn't complaining.... Too much 
carpe diem!
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Ateo
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Cool shot. Yep, we are all lucky to even have been born. To experience flying in plane is something only a slight fraction of humans have ever
experienced. I'm putting a great spin on not diving as much as you used to!
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StuckSucks
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Google Earth, Punta San Francisquito, circa 2009 with almost no buildings along the playa
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Barry A.
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I believe that most of the buildings/structures are still there-----just really hard to see in StuckSucks second picture. Some do seem to be missing,
however, as I look at it in detail.
Barry
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Ken Bondy
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I think the buildings start just off the right edge of StuckSucks' image. His shows the west runway, I was landing on the east runway. You can see
that in the Google Earth plan view.
carpe diem!
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Stickers
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Landing 2008 video
Ken, here is the approach and landing, about 2008. The buildings were there just messy and falling apart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wwgFQWQ-ZY
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Ken Bondy
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Quote: Originally posted by Ateo  | | Cool shot. Yep, we are all lucky to even have been born. To experience flying in plane is something only a slight fraction of humans have ever
experienced. I'm putting a great spin on not diving as much as you used to! |
Greatly appreciate the spin Ateo - it helps a little
carpe diem!
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StuckSucks
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| Quote: Originally posted by Ken Bondy | | I think the buildings start just off the right edge of StuckSucks' image. His shows the west runway, I was landing on the east runway. You can see
that in the Google Earth plan view. |
Oops! Sorry about the runway incursion.
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Tomas Tierra
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Ken,
Did you ever see your elusive Black Sea Bass??
TT
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Vince
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Agree, buildings more to the east of the second photo. I came in by boat from Sonora and stayed there in the late 1960's and it was fairly new.
Great food and good palapa accommodations.
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David K
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In the Google Earth, you can see the darkness of the old asphalt landing strip that was just west of the dry lake bed strip. Ken used the dry lake and
StuckSucks is approaching the blacktop.
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Skipjack Joe
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Why don't images come up when I click on those icons on the beach?
[Edited on 2-20-2015 by Skipjack Joe]
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Ken Bondy
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Still on my bucket list Tomas. I might try one more time this year but it's likely to stay on the list forever 
carpe diem!
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David K
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Because that is not connected to Google Earth, but simply an image saved from Google Earth. Go to Google Earth, zoom into San Francisquito, and click
there.
I have since figured out how to remove the silly blue squares!
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capt. mike
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best place in Baja.....or used to be!! my 1st landing there 1980 too.
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
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msteve1014
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Come to La Bocana. My neighbor, the abalone diver keeps giving me #s where he saw mero and garopa that could swallow him whole. I keep feeding them
jigs and macs. I can only boat the smaller ones.
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Skipjack Joe
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I saw a special on diving at Solomon Islands, Ken. That would be a perfect place to extend your diving passion. Warm water and a plethora of sea life.
I would imagine that you could enjoy it all with just mask and fins.
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Not changing the topic, BUT, how did you take your old pictures and get them to post? I have albums and albums of pictures taken on various trips but
since the digital age, they are put away in the closet till some poor soul comes by and has a couple of c-cktails, then-tee-hee! I only have pictues
of one of my 4 planes and I loved them all!!
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