Category: Baja California Sur

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Sunset Travel Guide to Baja California

Sunset Travel Guide to Baja California

By: Sunset Editorial Staff with Ken and Caroline Bates
Published by: Lane Books, Menlo Park, California. 1971  Edition.  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-140160.  Size 10.75″ x 8.25″
Chapters cover The North Region (Tijuana, Ensenada, San Felipe), The Central Desert and Gulf Coast (San Ignacio, Santa Rosalia, Mulege, Loreto), Southward to the Cape (La Paz, Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo). The text is accompanied by maps and black and white photographs.

Photo on the pages below show the shipwrecked Japanese freighter off the coast of what is today called Shipwreck Beach.

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Calle Tabachines, Lomas del Pacifico

Calle Tabachines, Lomas del Pacifico Cabo San Lucas, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Photos from 1998 or 1999. Calle Tabachines, Lomas del Pacifico.
Former location of Vista el Faro.

In the late 1990s there was only a barbed wire fence and a wooden gate. There is a view to the old lighthouse, El Faro Viejo, in the distance.

Calle Tabachines early 1990s, former location of Vista el Faro
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Calle Tabachines Cabo San Lucas, February 2018
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Calle Tabachines, old Vista el Faro-1990s-5137
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Calle Tabachines early 1990s, Cabo San Lucas. former location of Vista el Faro Image 5142

 

 

 

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The Sea of Cortez, Sunset Book

The Sea of Cortez,
Gulf of California, Baja, Mainland Coast, Mexico

(A Sunset Book) Hardcover
First Printing 1966 – jat
by Raymond Cannon (Author)

Beautifully illustrated book on the Sea of Cortez, Gulf of California, Baja, Mainland Coast: Mexico’s Primitive Frontier featuring history, travel discoveries, fishing and adventure.

Quote from the the introduction:
“The Story of The Sea of Cortez, a primitive world of beauty and adventure that begins less than fifty miles below the southwest border of the United States.”

“This is the book that jump started tourist in Baja California in the 60s and 70s. Ray Cannon, the author spend 30 years, 1947 to his death in 1977, fishing, traveling and writing about Baja.”  MikeB. – Amazon.com

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Abelardo “Rod” Rodriguez Montijo

Abelardo “Rod” L. Rodriguez Montijo

 

Abelardo L. Rodriguez Montijo and Lucille Bremer
Abelardo L. Rodriguez Montijo and Lucille Bremer

Abelardo Rodriguez opened the very first resort, Rancho las Cruces, Baja’s original luxury fishing resort, built on the beach at the base of a remote arroyo near La Paz in 1950. His second resort,  Palmilla at San Jose del Cabo was built in 1956. Founder of the  original Hotel Hacienda Cabo San Lucas in 1962.