> Just finished reading WIND /WATER/SUN: A Solo Kayak Journey Along Baja > California's Desert Coastline, by Ed Darack. Published by Poudre Canyon > Press. It is a magnificent book - full of beautiful color pictures, > descriptions of the terrain, geology etc., sixteen sectional maps (not > charts) from Puerto Penasco, through the Colorado River Basin, down to > San Jose del Cabo. It is beautifully written and as much about local people > etc. as it is about kayaking per se. But it includes plenty of what I > would consider essential info about his kayaking experiences. I have paddled > some of the coast below Loreto and felt like I was right beside him the whole > way. It would be on my required reading list for anyone planning to > kayak the Baja coast. I've found this book on Amazon, and the only review said that this book underemphasized the dangers of Sea of Cortez compared to another similar book -"Kayaking the Vermilion Sea" by John Waterman, which was also more retrospective. John's book happened to be in my local library, so I've picked it up. Reading random paragraphs now, - quite impressive. I loved the last chapter - the talk with Los Cabos realtor. **He points again, east of the airport on the map, "You pave this", he points to the perimeter of the Sea of Cortes: "you pave that", he looks quizzically at me, "and what have you got?". I shrug. "Accessibility", he says. The realtor laments that the eighteen-mile corridor between here and Cabo San Lucas has only thirty-five hundred hotel rooms. "that's the same as just one hotel in Las Vegas".... ** The hottest listing was 250 acres of subdivided property. **half-acre, oceanfront lots sells for $150,000. "Twenty percent of what they will be", he reminds. "Where does the sewage goes?" I ask. He shrugs. "Is there any drinking water left"? He doesn't know...** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Aug 21 2004 - 18:39:36 PDT
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