| Pages:
1
2 |
Chupacabra
Nomad
Posts: 476
Registered: 7-11-2013
Location: La Jolla, CA
Member Is Offline
|
|
Firewood in LA Bay
Does anyone know if firewood is available to purchase in LA Bay?
I know I can get it on the way, but I'd just as soon get it there if possible.
Thanks!
************************************
WTF
|
|
|
woody with a view
PITA Nomad
Posts: 15939
Registered: 11-8-2004
Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Everchangin'
|
|
haven't seen it, but doesn't mean it isn't there. be safe and bring it.
|
|
|
Ateo
Elite Nomad
Posts: 5912
Registered: 7-18-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
The market at the left turn in El Rosario usually has some pieces laying around.
|
|
|
AKgringo
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6125
Registered: 9-20-2014
Location: Anchorage, AK (no mas!)
Member Is Offline
Mood: Retireded
|
|
It seems to me that a while back, there was a post about firewood being a prohibited item to bring into Mexico. Did I get that wrong, or does it
depend on what kind of wood it is?
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!
|
|
|
woody with a view
PITA Nomad
Posts: 15939
Registered: 11-8-2004
Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Everchangin'
|
|
no wood unless you pay duty. firewood not allowed.
|
|
|
marv sherrill
Nomad
Posts: 463
Registered: 11-18-2003
Member Is Offline
|
|
Chupa - you can get firewood at most of the markets in town - Dos Pinos and Xitalia for sure! A little expensive, but really good wood.
Enjoy the warm nights.
|
|
|
Chupacabra
Nomad
Posts: 476
Registered: 7-11-2013
Location: La Jolla, CA
Member Is Offline
|
|
Quote: Originally posted by marv sherrill  | Chupa - you can get firewood at most of the markets in town - Dos Pinos and Xitalia for sure! A little expensive, but really good wood.
Enjoy the warm nights. |
Awesome, good to know. Thanks!
************************************
WTF
|
|
|
Skipjack Joe
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8088
Registered: 7-12-2004
Location: Bahia Asuncion
Member Is Offline
|
|
I was there a week ago and saw firewood being sold in the large market in the blue building on the right side of the malecon entering the town. They
sold mesquite and briquettes.
|
|
|
larryC
Super Nomad
Posts: 1497
Registered: 8-11-2008
Location: BoLA
Member Is Offline
|
|
I was just in Enriques market and he had "lena" for 8 pesos a c/u. I don't know what c/u is. So I don't know how much you get for 8 pesos.
Off grid, 12-190 watt evergreen solar panels on solar trackers, 2-3648 stacked Outback inverters, 610ah LiFePo4 48v battery bank, FM 60 and MX60
Outback charge controllers, X-240 Outback transformer for 240v from inverters, 6500 watt Kubota diesel generator.
|
|
|
coronamike
Junior Nomad
Posts: 45
Registered: 5-28-2006
Location: Morro Bay
Member Is Offline
|
|
I think c/u means cada uno...which translates to "each one". So 8 pesos for each stick.
|
|
|
15389
Newbie
Posts: 12
Registered: 8-16-2014
Location: Northern CA / San Bartolo
Member Is Offline
|
|
Why not just drive to an arroyo and pick all you want for free? There's a ton of dead wood in the arroyos north of town.
|
|
|
woody with a view
PITA Nomad
Posts: 15939
Registered: 11-8-2004
Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Everchangin'
|
|
it's illegal, that's why.
YMMV
|
|
|
15389
Newbie
Posts: 12
Registered: 8-16-2014
Location: Northern CA / San Bartolo
Member Is Offline
|
|
That's funny. The federal police looked at my pile of dead wood and didn't say a thing. I can't believe it is illegal to pick up and burn dead wood at
your camp site.
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 65093
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
Some folks here like laws; control; being busy-buddies; etc. ...
However, do know that the L.A. Bay area is (was?) ejido land (as are many other areas of Baja) and collecting firewood may be an important source of
revenue for someone in the ejido. Most of us are on a vacation to enjoy the outdoors, so campfires are an option unless you really do need to keep
warm or cook food over it.
Another ecological aspect is that dead wood is often home to many creatures (scorpions often) and if it is all gathered than some of those wonderful
insects may lose a home!
Now, man needs fire... so use some good judgement! We bring those 3-4 hour logs sold at the grocery store for campfire time.
|
|
|
mtgoat666
Select Nomad
Posts: 19287
Registered: 9-16-2006
Location: San Diego
Member Is Offline
Mood: Hot n spicy
|
|
Like controlling a woman's reproductive rights, making laws restricting the right to marry, being a busy body by monitoring every telephone line in
the USA, and making a religious test for immigrants?
Which party is the party trying to control our civil rights and be a busy body in our personal communications?
Now, about that wood, it's gonna cost you less than $10, so do the right thing and buy it, and quit scavenging! Leave some wood for the goats!
|
|
|
bajadogs
Super Nomad
Posts: 1069
Registered: 8-28-2006
Member Is Offline
|
|
Can you articulate?
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 65093
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
You and goat are doing just fine. Wow.
|
|
|
15389
Newbie
Posts: 12
Registered: 8-16-2014
Location: Northern CA / San Bartolo
Member Is Offline
|
|
I just got back from a 5 week camping trip and I never had anyone ever come by selling wood. If someone did for sure I would buy some. But when you
are boondocking 10+miles from the nearest town it's kind of hard to just run to town and maybe find someone selling wood. I go down to Baja to get
away of all the rules,laws ect. and I don't believe any locals or authorities give a crap that I am having a camp fire with dead wood I collect around
camp.
|
|
|
David K
Honored Nomad
Posts: 65093
Registered: 8-30-2002
Location: San Diego County
Member Is Offline
Mood: Have Baja Fever
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by 15389 | | I just got back from a 5 week camping trip and I never had anyone ever come by selling wood. If someone did for sure I would buy some. But when you
are boondocking 10+miles from the nearest town it's kind of hard to just run to town and maybe find someone selling wood. I go down to Baja to get
away of all the rules,laws ect. and I don't believe any locals or authorities give a crap that I am having a camp fire with dead wood I collect around
camp. |
You are no doubt correct... Back in the day when many Americans went camping to Baja on the major holidays (2001 or earlier), there was enough
business for one of the locals to drive to the camps selling "Leña" (firewood) around L.A. Bay. Doc had a pile by the office at Camp Gecko we would
buy from.
|
|
|
MitchMan
Super Nomad
Posts: 1856
Registered: 3-9-2009
Member Is Offline
|
|
Wow, sorry to lean that firewood is so scarce in Baja, even sorrier to learn that it is illegal to gather dead firewood laying on the ground.
Obviously, I am not and have never been much of a camper.
In La Paz area, there is dead firewood all over the place; mesquite trees grow wild out there…they are everywhere. Plenty of dead firewood on the
ground in every direction outside of downtown.
About two months ago a really good looking young woman came to my house in La Paz offering me $20.00 MXN for a piece of mesquite firewood (she knew
that I had a stash of it in my back yard because I paid her and her uncle to do some yard work earlier). I was puzzled by that; but now I know why
she was willing to pay for it.
|
|
|
| Pages:
1
2 |
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
