Only in Mexico could the transport of a huge tank that utilizes the entire width of Mex 1 – the solitary two-lane highway that spans the peninsula – take place in the full light of day. No matter that traffic backs up for hours over the spiny mountain climb through the central deserts of Baja. [...]
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Only in Mexico
Posted: March 23, 2012 in Baja Living, Desert, Environment, Mex 1, TravelTags: cars, central deserts, Construction Rigs, Copper Mines, Mex One, Santa Rosalia, transportation, travel, vacation
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beauty where we find it …..
Posted: January 18, 2012 in Baja Living, Beach Dogs, Birds, Buster, Casa de Catalina, Clean Water, Coronado Island, Desert, Dolphins, Environment, Estuary, Family & Friends, Fish, Food, Loreto, Moon Rise, Sailing, San Juanico, Scuba Diving, Sea of Cortez, Snorkeling, Sunrises, Sunsets, SUP, Surfing, Weather, WhalesTags: bountiful sea, Cabo San Lucas, cirrius, San Quintin, Sea of Cortez
For the uninitiated, there is little that can be said to fully express the beauty of Baja California Sur. From the moment one leaves the populations of Colonet & San Quintin, makes a requisite gas stop in El Rosario, and heads into the heart of undeveloped land of cardon, bojum, cholla, poloverde, cirrius and more [...]
Conservation and the Plight of the Vaquita
Posted: June 4, 2011 in Baja Living, Clean Water, Desert, Dolphins, EnvironmentTags: Baji Dophin, Doplhins, Fishermen, Gillnets, Gulf of California, Science Conservation Symposium, Sea of Cortez, the Ocean Foundation, Vaquita
‘The last fallen mahogany would lie perceptibly on the landscape, and the last black rhino would be obvious in its loneliness, but a marine species may disappear beneath the waves unobserved and the sea would seem to roll on the same as always.” – G. Carleton Ray in “Biodiversity”, National Academy Press, 1988 Last week [...]
Homage to the Home Planet
Posted: April 15, 2011 in Baja Living, Clean Water, Desert, Earth Day, Environment, Estuary, Family & Friends, Waste ManagementTags: Earth Day, Eco-Alianzia de Loreto, Loreto National Marine Park, Loreto Pride, Sea of Cortez, Waterkeeper Alliance
Earth Day – Loreto Pride were celebrated on April 10, 2011 with a community cleanup of the Arroyo Candeleria. The event was sponsored by the Waterkeeper Alliance, Parque Nacional Bahia de Loreto, Loretanos por un mar lleno de vida, and Eco-Alianza de Loreto. A.C. As in years past, the arroyo had been used by those [...]
An afternoon storm swept in quietly without much wind or fanfare. The sky had been cloud filled, but toward four o’clock, light grey turned to dark, and heavy drops fell intermittently. There is such magic in the desert when there is rain, especially when it passes through without floods or washed roads. The afternoon shower [...]
The horses and burros have made themselves at home in the neighborhood. Sometimes they are beyond the fenced perimeter; sometimes the just walk through the gate. The search for green and edible is ceaseless, especially after a very dry ‘rainy’ season. The desert can be a harsh place for range animals. On our morning walk, [...]
December 31 .. The last day of 2010.
Posted: December 31, 2010 in Baja Living, Beach Dogs, Birds, Casa de Catalina, Desert, Estuary, Loreto, Sea of Cortez, SunrisesLast day, last sunrise of 2010. Woke earlier than usual : 4:00 AM and what to do. Sleep filled and nothing left but to meditate and greet the new day in darkness. Poured hot coffee and savored the quiet. A crescent moon lingered with Saturn clinging to its sphere. NASA reporting storms on the ringed [...]
