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Have a Baja Moment! Discover Santa Rosalia and its Gaelic Roots.

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Have a Baja Moment! Discover Santa Rosalia and its Gaelic Roots. by Tom Gatch By the time that a humble rancher named Jose Rosas began noticing oddly round, green mineral deposits showing up in his soil back in 1868, the future of Santa Rosalia on the Cortez coast of Baja Sur had already been forged. After the small pellets were later analyzed on the Mexico mainland and determined to be copper, it was not long before foreign interests moved in and formally began excavating in 1870. By 1884 over 42,000 tons of copper and more than 6,000 ounces of gold had been …

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Rock Art and Cave Paintings in Mulegé: Have a Baja Moment (in Time)!

Have a Baja Moment discovering rock art and prehistoric cave paintings.

by Ashley Curtin  (all photos courtesy of VisitBajaSur) You can Have a Baja Moment (in time) as you walk through caves discovering collections of prehistoric art (rupestres) drawn on the sides of boulders and along rocky walls located in and around Mulegé. Geometric symbols, animals, human figures and life-sized murals adorn the narrow caves and rocky overhangs at La Trinidad, Piedras Pintas and San Borjitas—well-known rock art sights within the peninsula’s Great Mural Region. All of these are an easy day-trip from Mulegé .  The rock art famous to this area is primarily depicted in red and black coloring. The most common figures travelers …

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SCORE Baja 1000: The Fever Begins

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By Terry Marcer SCORE Baja 1000 Fever — It is upon us now!  The teams that are marking the course ( Ensenada to La Paz, starting November 18, 2012) are working on that now.  We had the South marking crew stay a couple of days ago and we will have the North marking crew in a few days.  We love this time of year as the excitement is in the air.  I don’t think there is any time of year that the locals like better.     We started here at Ignacio Springs B&B with three yurts in 2001 and had our first race …

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Mulege Storm Watch Message- Paul

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Mulege Storm Watch Message- Paul Weather Station of WB6EZI/XE2 Rick Barber – Owner Oliver – Forecaster Baja.com will be bringing periodic updates about Mulege and environs to readers from Rick Barber, Mulege resident and local expert.   Stay  posted! Latest Alert, October 15, 8 p.m.:  PAUL UP TO HURRICANE 3 STATUS:  MIAMI, Oct. 15 (UPI) – Hurricane Paul revved up to a Category 3 storm Monday afternoon with 120 mph winds as it roamed the Pacific off the Mexican coast, U.S. forecasters said. Paul, which powered up from 90 mph just 3 hours earlier, was centered about 415 miles off Baja California’s west coast …

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Mulege Storm Watch Message- Tropical Storm Miriam

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Mulege Storm Watch Message- Tropical Storm Miriam Weather Station of WB6EZI/XE2 Rick Barber – Owner Oliver – Forecaster Baja.com will be bringing periodic updates about Mulege and environs to readers from Rick Barber, Mulege resident and local expert.  Stay posted! UPDATED 09/24/2012:  MIRIAM TAKES A TURN FOR THE WORSE! Looks like MIRIAM decided to come to the Baja after all… and she’s now a Cat. 3 hurricane.  That’s the bad news… now for the good.  MIRIAM is going to peak in strength later today and then start to weaken fairly quickly and return to her Tropical Storm status sometime late …

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Storm Watch Message- Tropical Storm Kristy.

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Mulegé, BCS, Mexico Weather Station of WB6EZI/XE2 Rick Barber – Owner Oliver – Forecaster       Hi All- I don’t know how closely you are following the weather down here but I thought I’d better let you know about Tropical Storm Kristy. Kristy is not predicted to become a hurricane but, as we all know too well, Tropical Storms are fully capable of delivering a lot of rain and that is what causes our problems here in Mulegé .     Right now, the eye of Kristy is due south of Los Cabos with winds of about 50 mph. The “debris” clouds …

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Rick Barber’s Eye on Mulege: Storm Watch Message

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Weather Station of WB6EZI/XE2 Rick Barber – Owner Oliver – Forecaster Baja.com will be bringing periodic updates about Mulege and environs to readers from Rick Barber, Mulege resident and local expert.  Stay posted! I guess what happened last night qualifies as an entrant to the Storm Watch archives. Just the other day, I was heralding the passing of two Mulegé milestones, September 2nd and Hurricane John. Both passed without incident! We have been having some “unsettled” weather however. Storm clouds- nothing really organized- have been agitating us, off and on, for the past week or so. Last night, the rain …

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Pitaya: Legacy of a Lost Baja Culture

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By Martina Traveling south into Mulege, you don’t want to miss a very local fruit known as the Pitaya. Its history is as rich as the fruit, itself — luscious and vibrant as is the Pitaya, when it is sliced wide open. Pitaya is the fruit of the cactus. Way before recorded history, it is said that the Cochimi Indians waited every season for this fruit from the Organ Pipe, Pitaya Dulce, to ripen sometime in May through July. When the cactus flowered and the blossom dropped away, they knew the harvest season was near. The globular fruit with spines …

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Adventure in and around Mulege on the Gulf of California

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By Martina Dobesh If it hadn’t been for my sister pushing me to come with her to Mexico and then offering free lodging in an exclusive Cabo hotel , I never would have made it to Mulege. We planned this road trip so we could take in the real Baja California and almost didn’t make it to Los Cabos because we couldn’t leave Mulege – make that, wouldn’t leave Mulege. We kept trying for a week before finishing our trip to lands end. Now, here we are back in the magic that wouldn’t let us go. Alisabeth always pushed me into experiences I would …

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