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Mediterraneo Restaurant and Texas BBQ
Mediterraneo Restaurant has the finest view on the Malecon in downtown Loreto. Italian, Spanish, French, Greek food, local seafood, pasta and pizzas, fine wine and a full moon rising over the water. In the backyard there's a genuine Texas B.B.Q. Enjoy ribs and cold beer in a garden setting while watching your favorite sporting event thats being projected on the side of the two storey restaurant complex. Yeah, this is really Loreto! Owners Carol and Lee have been kind to fellow Loretanos with donations of dozens of blankets to children of San Javier and polarized sunglasses for the municipal police. Good people.
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Ronnie Kovach's Radio Fishing University
is broadcast every Saturday at 5 to 7 a.m. features the West's foremost fresh and saltwater fishing personalities as weekly guests while sending a strong message for planetary stewardship and prudent conservation.
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AM 830 Los Angeles
Anglers from all over Southern California tune in to hear Ronnie Kovach's "Radio Fishing University" live every Saturday morning on AM 830 from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. (Listen to the show live on the internet by clicking the upper righthand corner link)
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Gene Kira's Mex Fish Gene Kira has been posting fishing current Baja reports at mexfish.com for many years. Our reports are archived there. Traveling to the Baja peninsula? Go to MexFish for the most up to date fishing reports.
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Salt Water Fly Fishing
Loreto, Baja's Dreamland in the February/March 2005 issue and written by internationally recognized celebrity fly fisherman Richard Naumann.
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Men's Journal A few years back, The Baja Big Fish Company was part of a story of a road trip through Baja after the author fished with us.
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Fly Fishing and Fly Tying
This is a British periodical that featured a story called "In Search of Cortez's Gold" in reference to Loreto's Dorado fishing in the August 2007 edition. The story is based on the author's trip with us in July 2006 and Toby is now no longer a course fisherman.
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Fishing Online 1,000 Best Websites
One day I got an e-mail from the author of a book..."I'm writing to let you know that your web site is recommended as a Baja fishing information source. The book is titled "Fishing Online: 1,000 Best Web Sites" (Stoeger Publishing, paperback, 400 pages, $22.95). I hope you get to look at it - I really liked your site." Best Wishes, Craig Buddo...gee, I wonder if it still applies?
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Baja Links Exactly what the name implies, links of websites to Baja California related businesses.
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Baja Expo My friend Carlos Fiesta (Charlie Party) has traveled the peninsula sticking his stickers on every door, window, cactus and road sign he can reach. While looking for places to stick his sticker he's visited just about everywhere in Baja.
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Baja Nomad The infamous Baja Nomad fourms are helpful for novice Baja travelers. Find out about road conditions, camping, advice on where to stay, eat, shop and more. Sometimes more than you want to know.
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Baja Trekker Online Field Guide This is a new forum that describes plants, insects, animals, etc. that are found throughout the Baja Peninsula.
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Denise Sferas Denise has lived in Loreto longer than any of the Real Estate agencies have been here. She is fluent in the Spanish language and culture and has gained the trust of the local Loretanos, an important factor to doing business here.
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Loreto's Properties Listing, Discover Villa Mar, Public Notary, Fideicomiso. A 300 year old Mexican fishing village, called Loreto, where the people are warm, the sun shines...
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Alexander Real Estate and Investments Considering purchasing, renting, vacationing, living, retiring or investing in Loreto or the surrounding area?
Alexander Ogilvie and his staff can help.
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Mediterraneo and Texas BBQ Mediterraneo Restaurant has the finest view on the Malecon in downtown Loreto. Italian, Spanish, French, Greek food, local seafood, pasta and pizzas, fine wine...
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Domingo's Place was called El Nido for many years but has changed its name. Website says El Nido, menus say El Nido, taxis know it as El Nido but its Domingo's Place dammit! Great atmosphere in the back outdoor dining area.
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La Terraza located in the heart of town on a second floor outdoor patio or "terraza", La Terraza is small and intimate with good food and good prices.
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Augie's Bar and Bait Shop OK, Augie's doesn't have a website but they should. And they should have a live streaming webcam at happy hour too. Since I'm a friend of Anjelica's I recommend this place. Its right on the malecon. Good eats. Good drinks. Live bait.
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Cormarant Dive Center diving, snorkeling and whale watching tours, quad runner, and mountain bike rentals. They're right across the street from us.
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Dolphin Dive Center My only (hopefully not last) dive experience with Rafael was memorable. He is a professional divemaster and instructor who made even me, feel comfortable and at home underwater.
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Jim Cook Photography Photographer Jim Cook specializes in capturing images of beautiful women. He photographed Mimi our friend and t-shirt model. Must be over 18 to enter this site.
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Apple Computer The Baja Big Fish Company, convinced by our client and friend Jim Cook (website above) and years of frustrations with windows, switched platforms from Windows to OS X. This entire website and our videos are created on Apple computers. We're hooked!
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Other Interesting Links:
Loreto is victim of its own fantastic natural beauty, they say its been "discovered" recently. Actually there have been people here for well over three centuries but this boomtown is expecting tens of thousands of new settlers. Loreto has a limited supply of fresh water and is at the heart of a national marine sanctuary. These organizations are working towards the environmental and social preservation of this beautiful place. |
 Loreto Eco Alliance
Known in Loreto as "Eco Alianza Loreto, A.C." the newest non profit that is focusing on coordinating the citizenry of Loreto to take part in the decisions that will affect the rest of their lives. The current plan for the Loreto area is for uncontrolled tourism development and densly packed resort retirement communities along the coast. While these plans may benefit Loretanos with jobs and short term economic growth, the proposed scale of these combined developments will no doubt have a very negative overall affect. Loreto's social environment will further diminish as land values and prices of goods and services rise out of reach of average person. Our environment will be severely impacted as our precious fresh water becomes depleated (see Harvard study below), and as more persons increase the demand on a public infrastructure that cannot handle the load. It is the vision of Eco Alianza Loreto to educate the people so that they will have the information and strength to hold their state and local government and the developers responsible for their actions. We applaud this valiant effort!
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 Sustainable or Greenwashing
Baja Life issue twenty stands out because after over ten years of glossy photos of resorts and developments, Eric Cutter who is also a founder of Loreto Eco Alliance, published a story on one of the most controversial development projects in Mexico. It opens with the following words: "Loreto Bay Co. Sustainable or Greenwashing? A voracious appetite for profit threatens Loreto's fragile biosphere. Can a Developer who purveys sustainability deliver on the promise?" Keep in mind, this story was published in 2006 and in re-reading it and knowing what I know now as a local, it is both interesting and frustrating. If Loreto Bay wasn't pleased by this story then they ought to be very glad that I never wrote it. If authors Parkin and Vargas ever revisit this subject I will be happy to pick apart the responses by the developer, both from a standpoint of a local citizen and businessperson and as a trained biologist and chemist. Eco Alianza Loreto is bringing together bright minds and experience with scientists and local experts among their board of directors and members. All proceeds of the sale of this and other issues of Baja Life at our shop, goes to Eco Alianza Loreto. |
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Grupo Tortugueros
Cinco especies de tortugas marinas habitan el Pacífico Oriental; todas se encuentran amenazadas (IUCN Listado Rojo, 2000) y cuatro de ellas están ecológicamente extintas. La mortalidad de las tortugas marinas es, principalmente, resultado de actividades como su pesca furtiva, la comercialización ilegal de su carne y sus huevos en el mercado negro, y su captura incidental en chinchorros, redes de arrastre y palangre.
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Greenpeace Mexico
Trabajamos por un planeta saludable, pacífico y sin desigualdad. Somos una organización independiente que sólo acepta donativos de personas comprometidas con el futuro.
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The Nature Conervancy; Parks in Peril
With local partners, the Conservancy is supporting patrolling efforts in the Bay of Loreto Marine Park and is promoting the establishment and monitoring of no-take zones.
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Animalandia Loreto
We recognize & value our interconnectedness with all animals. Therefore, AML is dedicated to protecting & enhancing the quality of life for the animals of the world we share.
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Sea Watch We would like to inform you that the public comment period about NORMA-064 is over. Each individual on the list of officials received over 1600 emails, that's over 95,000 emails sent.
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WiLDCOAST
"The community should decide" in the construction of a framework for forging a socially acceptable and politically viable style of growth that respects natural resources and guarantees their rational use and their preservation for future generations
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Alternative Futures Study for Loreto, B.C.S. Mexico Required reading for all Loretanos or those concerned with the projected explosive growth here. This study was carried out by Harvard University and published in late 2005.
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