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Baja Times of the Past Fishing Loreto BCS

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1991 July Eclipse Baja

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The year of living free, camping on a beach on the pacific side, 60 miles north of La Paz, near flor de malva, for 8 days and nights. Heaven.   The longest solar eclipse I've seen for 6'48" of darkness. Pure hedonism, surfing, claming, drinking, smoking, grinding, chillin. A nomad Baja adventure.  A journey to record and witness the event was embarked on by me and few friends. We left LA for the peninsula on the 2nd of July at 4pm. We got an old gas tank from a junkyard off a peter built diesel truck and strapped it down in the back of an old chevy 350, 4x4 and filled it with 150 gallons of extra gas, 110 gallons of water, 2- 55 gallon white drums, 2 ice chests of beer, steaks and tortillas, 2 telescopes, video recorder, 3 cameras, lots of film,10x20 tarp, 2 surf boards, golf clubs\balls, etc...followed by the Toyota '83 4x4 loaded for bear. There was a lot of hype of overcrowding and possible lack of gas stations running out of gas hence the diesel tank, we just sipho