Sonora......Salt Flats North of Playa Lopez.....Puerto Lobo's......Pinacate..Elegante

jerry

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Nice..man i miss the train from Nogales to Tepic....... The part of the video with the Seri women reminded me i ran into some rafting /kayakers in idaho that told me they had rocks thrown at them when they came ashore on the mainland for supplies while kayaking around Tiburon Island last winter.Second such report i have heard.When traveling down there it is good to buy a carving or snack etc. from the people..they are really hurting. Tiburon has always been hard on the unprepared http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiburón_Island_Tragedy
 
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dirtsurfer

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The salt flats in between El Golfo and Penasco or pretty neat. Once in mid January a few years ago we were on one of the salt flats and a big wave of heavy fog rolled in. The combined brightness and whiteness from the fog and salt made it so you could barely see five feet. After a few minutes the fog moved on but the experience was incredible.
 
jerry

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dirtsurfer said:
The salt flats in between El Golfo and Penasco or pretty neat. Once in mid January a few years ago we were on one of the salt flats and a big wave of heavy fog rolled in. The combined brightness and whiteness from the fog and salt made it so you could barely see five feet. After a few minutes the fog moved on but the experience was incredible.
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Down at Santo Tomas the fog sometimes sits low behind the dunes in the cactus forrest and all you see is the tips of the cactus sticking out...need to get that picture!
 
Roberto

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lagrimas85 said:
09 Estrellas del Bicentenario SONORA ®TELEVISA 3 mins. HD 1080p - YouTube A friend of mine. had salt mines here, until Mexico privatized the railroad and no longer subsidized the shipments of salt, that all went to Italy, for use in a ceramic floor tile plant. Underground, the salt is in huge chunks. that smell like dead fish..... The locals still gather the chunks, but I'm not sure what they use them for.
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I read about that area in some of the history of Sonora books I have. It was a sacred site for tribes from all over. The came on a regular schedule and tansported the salt home all human carried in those days, no pack animals. One book described a detailed and extensive ritual that the salt gatherers had to perform before removing any of the salt. The trail to there was well used with watering places and campsites at intervals of a day travel.
 
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