Ho-hum. Somebody's been smoking too much of that whacky tobacky now that it's not illegal anymore.
20 years ago, I was given the "sales pitch" on buying a lot at San Jorge while fishing there. Inside the trailer, there was a grandiose poster on the wall, artist conception's of beautiful homes, a full-scale marina, luxury golf course, etc., etc. All of that could have been mine for a mere $16,000 at the time. Much to the chagrin of the salesman, I declined that wonderful offer.
And today, the beach at San Jorge looks pretty much like it did 20 years ago.
I always questioned how they would build a marina there. When the tide goes out in San Jorge, it goes waaaaaay the hell out! There is nothing but miles of sand flats there and the water, even when the tide is in, is not but a few feet deep for quite a distance.
I've had some interesting experiences fishing out of there on pangas. One morning, it took to nearly noon to get launched. They used a jeep to tow the panga out across the sand flats and the trailer ended up getting stuck in a small channel in the flats. Even after getting to some water deep enough to actually float the panga off the trailer, most of the trip out to the island was in water less than a few feet deep. You could practically walk out to the island from San Jorge on a very low tide.
So, to even consider building a marina, they would have to dredge miles of sand in order to build a channel deep enough for a decent size boat to even get close to San Jorge. Let alone all the dredging they would have to do to build the marina itself in order to keep the boats from sitting on the sand at low tide.
It's all about selling the dream, I suppose.
