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[*] posted on 6-20-2016 at 09:35 AM


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DK you should be a film critic. Good write up.


TW, that was the Plot from Wikipedia... I found the clip and that by doing a search. I will have to watch the movie again, as it was a hoot.




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[*] posted on 6-20-2016 at 01:20 PM


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Villas de Loreto is a small compound of private homes...used to be a hotel. It's just the other side of the arroyo, you can walk the beachside.


Do you recall if the old (Flying Sportsman) pier is in front of Villas?

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The remnants of the old pier are there!
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Villas de Loreto is a small compound of private homes...used to be a hotel. It's just the other side of the arroyo, you can walk the beachside.


Do you recall if the old (Flying Sportsman) pier is in front of Villas?



The remnants of the old pier are there!


Great... then that is where the Lodge was.




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[*] posted on 4-27-2019 at 11:22 AM


Ever since I moved here to Zaragosa i have been mildly obsessed with the Flying Sportsmen, my wife and I walk the beach in front of it daily, past the ruins of the old pier and gaze up at where the original property once stood.

I imagine Tabors fleet of fishing vessels moored up with the occasional seaplane stopping in for a visit, the cast of characters that once roamed these grounds.

I imagine Loreto has changed alot since those glory days, long before the highway was paved down here and the international airport made it easier to arrive, but if I close my eyes I can still see the way it once was.

We have been thinking more and more about possibly making Loreto a permanent home, Ive started casually browsing land/homes for sale and came across the Casa Davison up for sale, which stands where the Flying Sportsman used to live.

Mr. Davison resurrected the lodge back in the mid-90s, razing many of the decrepit structures but also saving some of the original bungalows and much of the main house in homage to the original lodge.

At $2.95 million its quite outside of our meager budget, but a boy can dream cant he?

https://www.buyloreto.com/property/davison-estate/











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[*] posted on 4-27-2019 at 12:34 PM


Mar 27, 2019 by That Baja Guy-Gary Graham: Flying Sportsmen Lodge – Tribute To Tenacity



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[*] posted on 4-27-2019 at 01:49 PM


Nice link, thanks Jim.



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[*] posted on 4-27-2019 at 03:57 PM


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Mar 27, 2019 by That Baja Guy-Gary Graham: Flying Sportsmen Lodge – Tribute To Tenacity


Wow what a great story, thanks.
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[*] posted on 4-27-2019 at 04:30 PM
The Flying Sportsman Pier in 2017


As a follow up to this 2016 thread, in 2017 I went in search of the Flying Sportsman Lodge remains (originally shared in my TRIP #2 report):











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[*] posted on 4-28-2019 at 08:53 AM


Flying and fishing... that sounds like a very good idea... and having a fishing lodge.... now that is the way to live life:coolup:




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[*] posted on 4-28-2019 at 10:57 AM


You will get a kick out of this Howard Hughes, Baja fly-in resort movie!



Full movie: https://youtu.be/NJGLRroEWaw?si=KlU3saw60dElmZnI

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[*] posted on 4-30-2019 at 09:15 AM


Whoa! Howard was very cool.




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[*] posted on 11-22-2024 at 05:51 PM


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