josiahq
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Baja Like Nowhere Else Guide
Half guide half first person story from my last trip the length of the peninsula, and I know it's leaving out some massively awesome places (I've yet
to really explore aggressively on the Pacific side), but here's the first of my multimedia Baja guides/stories
Baja Like Nowhere Else
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John M
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Really well done
After watching the 5 minute video I clicked on Read the Guide - the quality of this production is wonderful. It would stimulate a first time visitor
to explore and this is a good primer to view the beauty of Baja.
Thanks for posting.
John M
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josiahq
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Thanks John for your kind words. I sure love Baja and the people who live there, and obviously, the explorer community (including what I like to
consider the "old-guard" that frequents this forum) have been invaluable in helping me in my adventures.
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Who are you calling old? 
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Definition of "Old"
My age + 10 years! This has worked for me since I was in my twenties.
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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FelizCanadian
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Hahahaha. Shifted towards ecotourism. Hahahahaha. Chit, we just stopped in Scorpion Bay in the way to East Cape and count more than 20 dead mature sea
turtles all over the beaches north and south. These people are raping the oceans with no regard for nature or law. Sad but they will be eating each
other within the next 5 years when all the fish are gone
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Whale-ista
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Beautiful travel stories and photos! Loved the portraits of people you met along the way.
Thanks for the memories of the abandoned restaurant north of Cabo Pulmo.
I hiked to that building and the nearby school during a visit several years ago and captured these images:
View out the school window. What a lovely view for the students!
Restaurant sunrise. This was late June, so the sun was far north.
There are still a few stonework buildings and older homes in town. You can tell long-term structures by the quality of the skill in using local stones
for construction in houses & shops vs. cinderblocks. It's a lost art.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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aburruss
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I was there in summer of 2019 and saw the same. Locals attributed it to a recent red tide. *shrug*
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David K
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Every living thing dies... it is often a natural occurrence.
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AKgringo
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And sometimes the turtles get tangled in nets, then drown!
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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Don Pisto
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make google your friend david
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150622-can-anything-live-fo...
there's only two things in life but I forget what they are........
John Hiatt
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David K
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By the power of Zeus, don't die!
Ok, got it!
(what are we smoking tonight?)
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NETS NETS NETS. it’s not red tide,or a virus ,or or or. The beach inside where all the pangas are YOULL see 50 or 60 piles of nets. These turtles
are 20-40 years old. The have killed over 3000 in e last 3 years in the Bay of Ulloa nobody cares, killing the kindest creatures in the sea. They will
face the music someday
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mtgoat666
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Quote: Originally posted by FelizCanadian  | | NETS NETS NETS. it’s not red tide,or a virus ,or or or. The beach inside where all the pangas are YOULL see 50 or 60 piles of nets. These turtles
are 20-40 years old. The have killed over 3000 in e last 3 years in the Bay of Ulloa nobody cares, killing the kindest creatures in the sea. They will
face the music someday |
So, did you not eat fish on your vacation in baja? If you did eat fish, even once, you participated in the collateral slaughter of these turtles you
hold so dear.
It’s complicated. It’s a complicated game. https://youtu.be/L_QFMuieWiI
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
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Josiah -- Really nice work on the website and the video. Reminded me of a lot of places I love there and made me want to be there now.
¡Salud!
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| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | Quote: Originally posted by FelizCanadian | | NETS NETS NETS. it’s not red tide,or a virus ,or or or. The beach inside where all the pangas are YOULL see 50 or 60 piles of nets. These turtles
are 20-40 years old. The have killed over 3000 in e last 3 years in the Bay of Ulloa nobody cares, killing the kindest creatures in the sea. They will
face the music someday |
So, did you not eat fish on your vacation in baja? If you did eat fish, even once, you participated in the collateral slaughter of these turtles you
hold so dear.
It’s complicated. It’s a complicated game. https://youtu.be/L_QFMuieWiI
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Actually we did not eat fish in SanJuanico due to the netting of the many species. We purchased a filet of some parvo we saw a local catch up at the
points. It was delicious. I assume all the netted fish is sold elsewhere
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bajatrailrider
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| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | Quote: Originally posted by FelizCanadian | | NETS NETS NETS. it’s not red tide,or a virus ,or or or. The beach inside where all the pangas are YOULL see 50 or 60 piles of nets. These turtles
are 20-40 years old. The have killed over 3000 in e last 3 years in the Bay of Ulloa nobody cares, killing the kindest creatures in the sea. They will
face the music someday |
So, did you not eat fish on your vacation in baja? If you did eat fish, even once, you participated in the collateral slaughter of these turtles you
hold so dear.  
It’s complicated. It’s a complicated game. https://youtu.be/L_QFMuieWiI
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