Welcome to the Hotel Baja California

10 responses to “Welcome to the Hotel Baja California”

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   jurvetson

   Dec 23, 2010 at 1:44 am

   Surfing it back to shore seemed natural, or maybe I got lucky leaning enough to avoid a roll. This is the view perched on a swell, with a giddy uprising:
   
   Getting the boats into the ocean was the really tough part.

   (The kite surfer in front of me was blurred by a splash)

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   pegleg000

   Dec 23, 2010 at 3:03 am

   Best strategy? You just need to ask yourself, "What would Jonah do?" 😉 If it were me, I’d start a fire with those waterproof emergency matches that we all always carry.

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   angry shock

   Dec 23, 2010 at 6:13 am

   Last thing I remember, I was, running for the door. I had to find the passage back to the place I was before… "Relax" said the night man, "we are programmed to receive. You can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave"…

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   PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE

   Dec 23, 2010 at 6:20 am

   Did you go for an under water swim with the whales ?
   Hope you got some sweet and cool photos and videos for the Ocean lover you know I am : )

   Bonnes aqua vacances : )

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5. 

   rocketmavericks

   Dec 23, 2010 at 8:33 am

   Looks like great fun!!

   Three pieces of advice:

   1. Never get between a mother and a calf. She will whack you with her tail and well, that is a big ass tail.

   2. Always keep yourself between the kayak and the wave. Never place the kayak between you and the wave.

   3. Paddle like hell!

   Did you see any flying rays? Very cool if you can find them. Check ’em out….

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T680v6uoiMw

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6. 

   jurvetson

   Dec 24, 2010 at 10:43 pm

   Thanks y’all.

   I read a paper from 1925 about being swallowed alive a few months back… Thanks to Todd’s odd compendium of biology…

   "When sitting in quiet contemplation digesting after dinner, with beneficient microbes hard at work within me, I sometimes wonder if animals who swallow their pray alive are worried by the acrobatic efforts of victims trying to escape."

   "Meditations on the psychology of the swallowed suggest that the animal world may be divided into swallowers and the swallowed."

   I figured – hold your breath and thrash about.

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   angry shock

   Dec 24, 2010 at 11:47 pm

   I would suggest that is not the animal, but the whole world that fits into that division…
   "The world may be divided into swallowers and the swallowed."

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   PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE

   Dec 24, 2010 at 11:48 pm

   Haha Not sure if you are talking about Tood Hoff. But now that you tell us that…. he wanted to bring us all in a boat trip to the ocean for the closing talk of BIL this year, to go and watch whales….now I am wondering !!!! =P

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9. 

   Shoshin Seishu

   Dec 25, 2010 at 3:14 am

   You can check out anytime you want…but you can NEVER leave!

   Happy Festivus, My friend!

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10. 

    jurvetson

    Dec 28, 2010 at 11:36 pm

    merci.
    Yes, Todd Huffman
    gulp!

    Toma – just saw the flying Mobula Rays today, but at a distance:

    

    And lots of mating Humpback whales…
    

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