BajaBuckeye
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When to avoid Bahia De Concepcion spring break crowds
I'm planning a trip to Bahia De Concepcion next spring preferably after mid April and was wondering when the spring break/ holiday crowds should have
left the beach campgrounds making for a more enjoyable experience.If someone could chime in with some suggestions on this I would greatly appreciate
it! Thanks in advance!
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David K
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I think you got it figured out! We like it in the summer... very uncrowded!
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SFandH
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Easter is Sunday, March 27. Avoid the week before and the week after.
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Pompano
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If you come by mid-April and later, you will not find any crowds. A few pockets here and there, not many at all.
Just a few happy campers and umbrellas. Hope you enjoy the experience!
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gallesram
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You will be fine in April; Easter is on March 27 in 2016 and the week leading up to Easter is very busy. After that it's back to normal; and they do
a very good job of quickly cleaning up the mess that's left behind so you'll never know anyone was even there.
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AKgringo
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In the spring of 2013, I spent three weeks exploring for beaches off the beaten track, mostly on the East side. It was the week before, during, and
after Semana Santa, and I would typically find three or four beaches a day that I could access with four wheel drive, camping wherever I wound up near
sunset.
Even during Easter week, the Mexican family's I ran into were good company, who had no more interest in the 'Spring Break' crowd than I did. The week
before and after, I was alone on every beach.
I was disappointed to find that after Easter,even at remote spots, there was a lot of trash and human waste that was poorly disposed of. If you are
exploring, take a few heavy trash bags and a shovel with you!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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Alm
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I wouldn't bury anything but my own human waste (or somebody's else if it bothers me too much). All other garbage should be taken to dumpster or
incinerated, because it will take many years to decompose. Things like plastic bags or styrofoam will last FOREVER.
How fast do things biodegrade:
Vegetables 5 days –1 month
Paper 2–5 months
Cotton T-shirt 6 months
Orange peels 6 months
Tree leaves 1 year
Wool socks 1–5 years
Plastic-coated paper milk cartons 5 years
Leather shoes 25–40 years
Nylon fabric 30–40 years
Tin cans 50–100 years
Aluminium cans 80–100 years
Glass bottles 1 million years
Styrofoam cup 500 years to forever
Plastic bags 500 years to forever
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AKgringo
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Alm, Thanks for the clarification. Yes, the shovel is only for burying offensive bio-waste, the heavy bags are for hauling out things that I can't
burn on site.
I will do what I can to help clean up some of the beach, but I have my limits. Those limits don't include hauling poopy diapers or worse in my SUV.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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Pompano
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Since the early seventies and for many years after, some of us residents of Coyote Bay would pitch in and clean up the worst of the trash left behind
by careless Eastertime revelers in our area. We used our own pickups and trailers to haul the mess to the local dump. Thankfully, the last few years
Mulege basura trucks have taken on the task..and many garbage cans are put in place. Little by little it gets better, but is still a problem with the
litterbugs who don't respect the environment. It takes a few days of hard labor to make it all clean again.
If the punishment for littering were harsher and enforced, it would go a long way to keeping Baja's beauty clean for everyone to enjoy.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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AKgringo
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Quote: Originally posted by Pompano  |
If the punishment for littering were harsher and enforced, it would go a long way to keeping Baja's beauty clean for everyone to enjoy.
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Aside from the more popular, well used areas, I could not imagine (or want to see) a force large enough to guard all the beaches of Baja. It just
baffles me that people who enjoy the beach, dessert, or mountains can't be bothered to burn or haul out their own trash, and perhaps some left by
slobs!
And what is with throwing glass bottles on the rocks? Incredibly thoughtless behavior! But then, they are usually alcohol bottles.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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Alm
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If poopy diapers somehow related to your crew, this is where they belong - in your car. In a double bag. I've seen quite enough of this on beaches in
recent years, tried burning it once, but darn thing don't burn well.
12-15 years ago beaches were cleaner, locals didn't use diapers or toilet paper. Now they do. Cardon and mesquite trees are decorated with white paper
like some Christmas.
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Marc
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They clear out on Good Friday leaving behind their trash scattered everywhere.
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SFandH
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Not true this past Easter at Santispac, probably one of the busiest beaches. We arrived there the Tuesday after Easter and it was clean. There were
still many Easter week vacationers there, much less than the previous week but not everybody was gone. The management had placed extra trash barrels
and did a good job of collecting the trash. Plus they rented porta-potties, which were ready to be hauled away when we arrived.
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