tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36115162305034672162024-03-18T21:01:02.526-07:00Cabo San Lucas Past and PresentCabo San Lucas, Stories, History, and Tales about the area. It's changing dynamics from a sleepy fishing village to a high class tourist destination in Baja California.Kaki Bassihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007473476970142205noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611516230503467216.post-71638353453714150792007-12-23T06:51:00.000-08:002007-12-23T06:59:20.068-08:00William Walker, Imperial Self President of Baja 1853William Walker Born: 8 May 1824Died: 12 September 1860Birthplace: Nashville, TennesseeBest known as: 19th century filibuster who set up his own republic in Lower California. William Walker was an American filibuster who gained fame for his wild-eyed military exploits south of the United States border in the mid-19th century. By the time he was 25 years old, William Walker had worked as a Kaki Bassihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007473476970142205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611516230503467216.post-32830557569533099592007-12-22T20:42:00.000-08:002007-12-22T20:50:24.774-08:00The First Encounter by CW FergusonFortún Ximénez's Galeón Conceptión encounter Guaycra Indians of BajaA terrifying wind had been blowing for days from the south. It was the season for winds and the Guaycura had prepared for it. They had gathered nuts and roots and cacti and had built low lying shelters to protect their offspring from the driving sheets of water that always accompanied the October storms. This year, though, the Kaki Bassihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007473476970142205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611516230503467216.post-41392431420239686432007-12-22T20:37:00.000-08:002007-12-23T08:44:13.135-08:00Myth of California & Queen CalifiaQueel Califiavaliant and courageous and ardent with a brave heart,Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) is the fifth book in a series of novels on Spanish chivalry by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, which began with Amadís de Gaula. The first known edition of this work was published in Sevilla in July 1510, but there was undoubtedly one prior (perhaps published in Sevilla in 1496),Kaki Bassihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007473476970142205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611516230503467216.post-46637492935388331382007-12-22T20:14:00.000-08:002007-12-22T20:20:45.571-08:00First European Set Foot on Baja 1533Fortún Ximénezwas Spanish sailor who led a mutiny during an early expedition along the coast of Mexico and founded the first known European settlement in Baja California.Ximénez was the pilot of a ship sent by Hernán Cortés in 1533 to travel north along the coast of New Spain from present-day Manzanillo, Colima, in search of two ships that had been lost without a trace on a similar voyage the Kaki Bassihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007473476970142205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611516230503467216.post-3890312900528062342007-12-22T20:05:00.000-08:002007-12-22T20:29:04.798-08:00Most Famous Map Error in History 1510Island of California 1510The Island of California refers to a long-held European misconception, dating from the 16th century, that California was not part of mainland North America but rather a large island separated from the continent by the Gulf of California.One of the most famous cartographic errors in history, it was propagated on many maps during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Kaki Bassihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007473476970142205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611516230503467216.post-37388836449543826882007-12-22T05:37:00.000-08:002007-12-22T06:02:34.226-08:00Brief History Baja - Discovery to TodayBAJA'S 457 YEARS OF SOMNAMBULENT HISTORY ‑ cwferguson Reports filed by Fortun Ximénez with Hernán Cortez in 1533 were unbelievable. Ten sailing days north of Bahia de Tecuantepec, located in the south of New Spain, existed an island populated by aborigines tall in stature and dark of complexion. Every paragraph indicated that the new discovery was the lost island described by Garcí Ordóñez de Kaki Bassihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007473476970142205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611516230503467216.post-24370854681738611202007-12-21T06:15:00.000-08:002007-12-22T19:55:09.302-08:00Mother Nature Forms the Baja PeninsulaTrekking Along The Cape RegionIf you've ever tried to cut a thin slice of Gorgonzola tospread on a fresh piece of French bread, then you have an animatedcomparison as to how the Baja Peninsula was formed. It simplycracked and crumbled away from the Atlantic plate on a line nowdesignated as the San Andreas fault. But that was only 5 or 6million years ago.The Baja Peninsula is a Johnny-come-lately Kaki Bassihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007473476970142205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611516230503467216.post-6889500903033937082007-12-19T05:40:00.000-08:002007-12-22T20:03:24.193-08:00All Things RememberedWhen arriving in Cabo there were only 4,000 people living here and 3 hotels, 26 years later there are tales to tale and stories to repeat. Add any of your stories and photos here. kakiKaki Bassihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007473476970142205noreply@blogger.com0