The Feral Children of Playa EL Coyote

[steelfish]

Some of the very best moments of my life were invested around a Baja fire-pit (dug deep so the poor scorpions cant climb out) listening to larger than life legends like your grandfather tell the most amazing tales of old  Baja and Beyond.

Now you've reminded me of the ritual of checking our shoes for scorpions before we put them back on!

LOL
how it was your ritual?  my Dad and uncle told us to before putting the shoes, we have take the shoe hit two times the toe of the shoe against the floor firmly and then turn the shoes backwards so any kind of insect will fall from it.

I kept doing that for many years even when returned back to the city, I didnt noticed when I stopped doing it but it was until few years ago since my youth, I think I need to start doing it again 

[JasonGotaProblem]

I live in Florida. I've only ever seen a scorpion that wasn't behind glass once in my life. It was in my shoe. I was like 4-5. To this day I will not put on a pair of shoes without hitting it against the ground. Shaking it out, and then doing a sweep with my hand.

That kind of thing just leaves an impression I guess.

[Cor]

This must be one of the most interesting threads I've read here. It really speaks to my age group, and I think people all over the world can relate to the impact that time and greed have had on fishing and nature.

I started fishing shortly before I turned 11, and from that moment on I was completely hooked—infatuated and addicted, and I've never recovered.

Living in Africa, it's hard to compare my experience directly to life in Mexico, but if you head far enough north from where I've spent most of my time, there are still some stunning, uninhabited fishing spots left. I also took full advantage of Google Earth to explore the places you mentioned in your story.

Thanks for sharing this bit of history. I really enjoyed it. I've always told my peers that I would have loved to have fished during the 1950s—but then again, if I had, I probably wouldn't be here today.

[Joel.B]

Cornelis- you mentioned Google Earth to Explore,

I use it to check on old spots to see if still undeveloped, too often with with sadness anymore so I stopped looking. Though There are still loooong stretches of Old Baja and probably always will be. Those treacherous goat tracks up over mountains and through desserts insulate them from all the professional tourists in the fancy vans with the online "Followers".   

Somewhere there is still yet an old trawler waiting for me. I have been looking for it for years and will know it when I see it. Same as me It doesn't need much rehabilitation to come back to life, little love here and there and then just as Steinbeck and The Western Flyer in 1940- off to log our own expedition to the Sea of Cortez of which I hope to never return.   

[steelfish]

Ha ha, yep those look like roads I  remember. I think the highway on the Pacific side was completed by the end of Grandads Baja trips--I remember cutting across to the paved road and it being so quick and "easy" compared to the trek down from San Felipe. Could that have been in the 80's?
Russ

many of the Baja desert roads are still pretty much the same, time pass pretty slow down here.

[Joel.B]

I don't see washboards

[Maxed Out]

 A 1940 pic with a color camera ??

[Joel.B]

A 1940 pic with a color camera ??

Alex forgot to put the Mexican filter on the pic before posting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_filter

[steelfish]

A 1940 pic with a color camera ??

Alex forgot to put the Mexican filter on the pic before posting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_filter

    I didnt knew there was a thing named mexican filter, but yeap, I forgot to used it on the pic 

[El Pescador]

The Mexican Filter - you can view the same look on any "LandMan" episode.

Watch for it.

Wayne

[Joel.B]

The Mexican Filter - you can view the same look on any "LandMan" episode.

Watch for it.

Wayne

Also see it for yourself after imbibing just enough mezcal.

[rcmsangab]

Love the pics! We would cry for joy when we came to a stretch of road that looked like that. As for the "Mexican Filter"-- I had one cousin from the other side of the family who just didn't get the beauty of Baja - I remember him asking why people didn't plant nice lawns around their houses--we all just laughed and shook our heads.

[Maxed Out]

 Theres a small fishing village on south west coast of vancouver island(canada), and the last 55 miles is a bumpy dirt logging road, and the fishing is great, and very few tourists. I've driven that road many times and the dirt road is my favorite part of the drive, knowing whats waiting for me in Bamfield. I hope that road never gets paved

[Joel.B]

https://www.mexfish.com/baja/baja2006/baja061106a/baja061106a.htm

Was googling and old friend's name trying to find any news on his death, came across this old Mexfish report La Bocana BCS 2006 - last paragraph is blurb about me and a pelican.   

I was always looking for an excuse to take my close off.