Bahia de Los Angeles
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Like any self respecting port town Bahia de Los Angeles, where Howard and I went diving last week, has:
a Museum
some public art
some hotels
a good restaurant
a downtown
and a dock.
The only difference is a matter of scale. For instance the commercial dock is a semi trailer full of ice buying squid from the fishermen in pongas, the restaurant is the best in town because it is air conditioned and in the town itself only the main roads are paved or graded.
In defense of Bahia de Los Angeles. It is beautiful, all of the people are friendly and they have whale sharks.
Life is good
The Bahia de Los Angeles Album on Flickr
A Cactus Forest
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It is about a nine hour drive from the border to Bahia de Los Angeles. About a third of the trip is along the fertile coastal plain with farms, vineyard and tourism industries. Then you go inland and about a third of the trip is through what can only be described as a Cactus Forest. It was remarkable.
There were lots of cacti that looked like Saguaros
and some that looked like telephone poles with paint brushes on top.
Nurit tells me that they are Boojum Trees.
and some that looked like large but scrawny Jade Plants
Did I mention the very large Saguaros?
The other third of the trip was through very dry scrubby desert like the California desert on the way to Las Vegas. The Cactus Forest alone made the trip worthwhile. But we also had great diving with Ricardo, the town of Bahia de Los Angeles, swimming with the Whale Sharks and the military check points. And I should also mention driving with Howard for twenty hours and all of the great, nonlinear ideas we had.
September 26, 2010 Maxim
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“Fathom the odd hypocrisy that Obama wants every citizen to prove they are insured, but people don’t have to prove they are citizens”
Joe Safier
Greed is Not New.
Posted by Simon
On this date in 1869, thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street panic known as “Black Friday” after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market.
And somehow we recovered without TARP and the “Stimulus Bill.”
Thanks to David B. for this tidbit.
Whale Sharks in Baja
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In March the Codger Divers went to Utila with the hope of seeing whale sharks. We had a good time but failed to see any whale sharks. A few months ago my neighbor Jose M. told me that there were whale sharks in Bahia de Los Angeles, Baja California. Howard and I drove down on Tuesday and dove with Ricardo Arce today and we saw them.
In fact we saw several. One was named Francine. They are huge and fast but extremely gentle. I had borrowed Mark Z’s underwater camera for this moment so I was able to take several excellent pictures of the inside of the lens cap. And a few like this:
Ricardo found a spot where Francine was circling and Howard formed a special bond with her. I took the picture:
Details about 12 feet with a mouth the size of a large trash can.
Grundig
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People of a certain age know that Grundig, a West German company used to make some of the worlds most advanced radios. The home models were also beautiful.
This incredible shortwave console is in the CAREM Museum in Tecate.
This is a close up of the dial showing the five available bands. It must have been built in the 1950′s and looks modern in a pre-space age sort of way.
I’m organizing an exhibit of the Changing Boundaries map collection in Tecate and so I have been visiting their museum.
Indian Hemp: A Social Menace
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Opponents of Marijuana decriminalization were wrong in 1952 when this book was written and the are wrong now.
“Sometimes produces insanity”
“Death may result from the effect on the heart.”
They were wrong then and they are wrong now.
We should control Marijuana the same way we control Tobacco or Alcohol. It is the only effective way we have found. And PROP 19 in California is a step in that direction
Toilet Henge
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This just in courtesy of Joe R:
In the words of the ancient druids: “To henge is to live.”
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