1992 was truly seminal year. Lots of things happened that presaged things to come. Bruce brought his camper down and established the first Campo Bruce. Ed and I bought a boat and hauled it down twice. The second time, it stayed. Cathy made her first trip to Baja. We experienced the fury of the winds at Thanksgiving. Too bad these pictures are so poor. They were taken with my old 8mm camcorder, not even with the Super 8. Because they're so awful, I'm not going out of my way creating a contemporary webpage. I'll stick with the format of my earlier creations.

Memorial Day 1992

This was the trip that Bruce's camper arrived. Keith and Sean brought it down on Keith's truck. My boat made its debut. The winds crossing the Laguna Salada were legendary. It blew so hard that I could hardly open the door. I had to use my feet. The boat cover was shredded by the time we arrived. Rain appeared in the form of thundershowers north of San Felipe. The boys from the Bay area rode down with Jerry. Pieces fell off my trailer as I progressed down the road.

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• My new boat made it
• As did Bruce's new camper
• The Boobies were out at Islote La Poma
• Eddie caught a nice Corvina
• Geoff cast off the boat
• Geoff caught a nice Hogfish
• Here it is on the way in
• Hobbs got a Trigger
• Kerry caught the King of Triggers
• The dreaded Mexican Navy patrolled off La Poma
• Ensenada Plaza de Toros is on the east side of Isla San Luis
• A Pelican perched on shore
• Loncho actually stayed at his place back then
• Our future campo was a parking space
• Here's Keith
• And here's Sean
• And Jerry
• And Chuck
• And the Bonepile
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Thanksgiving 1992

We spent most of the time hanging out in Bruce's camper and chasing Mike the mouse. The wind was ferocious. We made a run down to Gonzaga to avoid the big waves. We did launch one day and picked up fish tacos.

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• Here's Gonzaga Bay from the divide
• Bruce and Jerry check it out
• Here's the camper
• I puffed a 'gar in the lee of a bush
• Jerry mugged for the camera
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• He also read about what it was like to go outside and fish
• The surf was up
• Hot peppers were available
• The boats waited on shore
• The bass were hungry
• Bud wanted some
• The dawn was inspiring, as usual
• An Elephant Tree grew in the wash on the way back
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Christmas 1992

This was Cathy's first trip to Baja after we began courtin' in September 1992. The weather was nice. We camped out in Eugene Rumer's tent. The fishing was good, as the gill netters hadn't screwed the place up to badly yet. Fisherman Loco Mike was down. It had been a wet autumn and the desert was green. Things bloomed that I haven't seen blooming since. Naty was the Padrón at Las Encantadas. He kept order in the place. The whole family was down for the holiday that year. We went to a nice party at Las Encantadas for New Year's Eve. It was the last time that things were as tranquil, as Naty passed a way a year or so later.

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• Here's Sylvia's husband, Loncho's brother-in-law
• The birds perched on a rock
• A Common Merganser swims by, as seen through the Bwana-scope
• An Elegant Tern perched on a rock on the shore
• Pelicans perched on Pelican Point,
• and then took flight when we got closer
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• A Great Blue Heron stood on the shore
• As did a Snowy Egret
• A Heermann's Gull was on the rocks
• Cathy caught a nice Pompano
• I got a nice Leopard Grouper,
• So did Eddie
• A Hogfish made its way in
• Ed got a Bass
• Bruce fileted a Scorpion Fish...yummy
• Back on shore, I reveled in the sunset
• Cathy took a picture with her camera
• I played with some rope
• There was a nice panoramic sunset
• In the desert, the Ocotillos bloomed
• Here's a flower closeup
• Cathy cruised in the desert
• An Ironwood tree stands alone
• A Giant Potato Tree was in bloom
• and it made a potato berry
• Our future campo was only a scrub patch
• Las Encantadas was the site of a New Year's party
• Naty danced with "Catalina", his name for Cathy
• The partygoers were out in force
• Cathy strolled the beach on New Year's Day
• We landed the boat
• On the way back, this Cardon was south of San Felipe
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