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84Carpenter Bees: The Gentle Giants
The Beloved Carpenter Bees. You can be standing somewhere on the South Baja Peninsula in Mexico minding your own business and enjoying the morning sunshine, when suddenly you are confronted by a large, black insect hovering about 6 inches from...
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78Meet the Caracara: Mexico's National Bird
No, Our National Bird is Not the Fly! Someone once asked me if the national bird of Australia was the fly. It isn’t, of course, although people might be forgiven for suggesting it would make the ideal choice as the pesky insects are everywhere....
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61El Triunfo Waits in Excitement and Trepidation
It is always pleasing to some of us to hear the price of precious metals has dropped world-wide. Gold and silver usually fluctuate in tandem; rise and fall together; silver always the poor cousin of course. At the moment, gold is at what may be an...
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61Jewels of the South Baja California Highway
San Ignacio Mulege Bahia Conception The nearly 1000 k journey by road from San Diego in the United States to Cabo San Lucas, in the extreme south of the Baja Peninsula, is a long, hot and wearying trek,...
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66Mulege: Like a Sahara Oasis.
Mulege Thinking of where to go this winter? There is a special place in Mexico’s Baja Peninsula that is more like an oasis in the Sahara than a village on the Sea of Cortez. South Baja has many delights, but the essential thing it lacks the...
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75Silken Feet: A Tarantula Feat!
Mexican Flame Knee Tarantula Eye invaded with urticating hairs On Friday, I published a small article on the Bombardier Beetle and its amazing defence system. Today's leggy protagonist, the Tarantula, reveals another incredible result of Evolution's...
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67When Juliet Hit Baja California.: Also Report on Jimena
Hurricane Juliet Hits South Baja California. We constantly complain about our weather in the UK. But the truth is we really don’t get any “weather” as the term is understood by seaman, for example....
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72The Sierra de la Laguna Park: Jewel of South Baja
The Sierra de la LagunaIf the Cape region of South Baja had a decent rainfall, it would blossom into another Amazon. It is far from being a desert region, in fact, the term “Arid Tropical Forest” was...
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71El Triunfo: Mining Left a Poisonous Legacy
El Triunfo: Not Triumphant for LongPerhaps more care should be used in naming the home town, no matter with what optimism you might view the immediate future. In the case of El Triunfo, South Baja California,...
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74Mexico: The World's Most Complex Torta!
A Sip of a Complex Broth. This humble scribe lived in Mexico, on and off, for nearly 30 years, full time from 1990 until 2003, working as a reporter and columnist. Now I have semi-retired and spend...
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