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So it's between 1970 and 1975? I'll go with 1974.
 

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Cabo San Lucas 53 years ago (1968). Today I’m wondering how many times it survived a Hurricane passing nearby.

The resort on the left was called The Hotel Camino Real later renamed in 1977 as Hotel Hacienda. In the foreground is the sand airstrip. There was no marina and the wharf in the picture was for the old fish cannery now only ruins on the public beach next to the current Naval Station.

For reference, the future marina channel would be in the middle foreground of the photo.
 

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Cabo San Lucas 53 years ago (1968). Today I’m wondering how many times it survived a Hurricane passing nearby.

The resort on the left was called The Hotel Camino Real later renamed in 1977 as Hotel Hacienda. In the foreground is the sand airstrip. There was no marina and the wharf in the picture was for the old fish cannery now only ruins on the public beach next to the current Naval Station.

For reference, the future marina channel would be in the middle foreground of the photo.

The internet (http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/real-turismo-s-a-de-c-v-history/) says the hotel wasn't purchased by the Camino Real people until 1970, but doesn't say what it was called previously.
 

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Here's an easy one ...

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Cabo San Lucas 53 years ago (1968). Today I’m wondering how many times it survived a Hurricane passing nearby.

The resort on the left was called The Hotel Camino Real later renamed in 1977 as Hotel Hacienda. In the foreground is the sand airstrip. There was no marina and the wharf in the picture was for the old fish cannery now only ruins on the public beach next to the current Naval Station.

For reference, the future marina channel would be in the middle foreground of the photo.

Simon, did you go to Cabo back in those 60's or 70's ? I hear stories of how the area developed. Our first trip was before they took out the center median in town and to turn left you had to turn right onto a frontage road. I remember huge concrete topes too. It was a party town by the time we showed up.

Bill
 

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Our first trip was before they took out the center median in town and to turn left you had to turn right onto a frontage road. I remember huge concrete topes too.
That road design is actually quite good. By having the frontage road paralleling the main, they separate local traffic from through traffic. Also, by having cars move to the frontage road to make a left turn they eliminate higher speed left turn collisions on the main road.

We gringos are so used to making left turns on main roads, that at first it throws us off. But I found that after I acclimated it worked very well.

In that acclimation regard, it's like the diverging diamond interchanges that are starting to be built on busy interchanges in the US. It's weird at first, but after you get used to it, it works pretty well.
 

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Simon, did you go to Cabo back in those 60's or 70's ? I hear stories of how the area developed. Our first trip was before they took out the center median in town and to turn left you had to turn right onto a frontage road. I remember huge concrete topes too. It was a party town by the time we showed up.

Bill
Hi Bill, I took this information from a member of Pueblo Bonito Owners Group. My first travel to Cabo was in 2006, but people from La Paz told me that Cabo area was a rural zone with very cheaps lands before start the turistic develop.
 

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That road design is actually quite good. By having the frontage road paralleling the main, they separate local traffic from through traffic. Also, by having cars move to the frontage road to make a left turn they eliminate higher speed left turn collisions on the main road.

We gringos are so used to making left turns on main roads, that at first it throws us off. But I found that after I acclimated it worked very well.

In that acclimation regard, it's like the diverging diamond interchanges that are starting to be built on busy interchanges in the US. It's weird at first, but after you get used to it, it works pretty well.

I does take a few times to get use to it. In Cabo, to get to Costco you do need to get into the frontage road to cross the bridge that puts you onto the opposite frontage road. The odd driving for me was Grand Caymen Island driving in left lane in a car with left side steering like at home and doing the roundabouts. I got use to it but could tell by the broken red lense glass on most of the roundabouts others hadn't.

Bill
 

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The odd driving for me was Grand Caymen Island driving in left lane in a car with left side steering like at home and doing the roundabouts.
Boy do I hear you on Cayman and the roundabouts. Those took the most acclimation time.
 

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Anybody recognize this pocket beach?

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While having our first cup of coffee we were visited by this hawk. This hawk was not obeying the handeler and hung out for a few minutes.

Bill
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Cathedral at Jose del Cabo?
 

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I see that no one has guessed this spot. This Playa Los Colomitos, on the trail between Boca de Tomatlan and Las Animas, on the south shore of Bahia de Banderas (Puerto Vallarta).

I think I remember you had a thread or post on this hike. Was it an all day adventure ? And do you remember where the link is ?

Bill
 

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I think I remember you had a thread or post on this hike. Was it an all day adventure ? And do you remember where the link is ?

Bill
I think it's in the Puerto Vallarta sticky thread at the top of the Mexico forum.
 
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