Baja California Sur

Tomorrow, 11. February 2010 is opening night for the 2010 La Paz Carnaval. At the first night of Carnaval, the “embodiment of a bad mood” gets burned in effigy in the Quema del Mal Humor. There will be live entertainment on the Malecón at the foot of 16 de Septiembre starting at 17:00 The show really gets going after 20:00, with a dance performance, the Quema de Mal Humor and coronations of the King of Happiness and the Queen of Young People. At 22:00, opening night’s featured entertainer is Mara Escalante (more details on her below). At 23:00, dance the night away to Banda Sinaloense music. Hopeful this will all all happens at reasonable weather, continue

Tropical Storm Patricia headed for a drenching of Mexico’s Los Cabos resorts late Tuesday or Wednesday as it neared the tip of the Baja California Peninsula. The storm had winds of near 60 mph (95 kph) early Monday and slight strengthening was possible, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. The winds were not projected to reach hurricane force of 74 mph (118 kph).
The storm was located about continue

Hurricane Jimena has lost more of its muscle, dropping to a Category 1 storm with 90 mph (145 kph) top winds off Baja California. La Paz get off easy as Hurricane Jimena moves north. Government offices and schools remain closed until tomorrow. There has been no reporting of excessive flooding or other hurricane related incidents across a wide spectrum of friends, acquaintance and businesses contacted this morning. There is a report on an arroyo north by Santa Rita that the carretera #1 is flooded. continue

Jimena weakens a little more but remains at category four strength. At 8 a.m. today, the center of Hurricane Jimena, with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph, was 140 miles south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas and churning toward the Baja California peninsula at about 12 mph. The accompanying image was captured just after 8 a.m. from the area of the old lighthouse at Cabo Falso on the Pacific side of the peninsula north of Cabo San Lucas. Rain comes and goes and wave heights are steadily increasing. Cabo San Lucas is no longer in the projected path of the hurricane. Also saved from the dangerous path of Jimena continue

Mexico and France have united to launch Mexico’s first virtual marine observatory in one of the world’s most vast and diverse eco-systems, the Sea of Cortez. The Jacques Cousteau observatory was conceived to further scientific research on human impact and global warming on Mexico’s baja peninsula and plans to help enforce laws that protect Mexico’s beaches according to officials from France and Mexico. The observatory will exchange costal and oceanic data between Europe and Mexicon stated french ambassador Daniel Parfait. “There is no other country in the world with which France has developed this type of information-sharing observatory” Parfait said continue

Racing action is over and we are stiull busy posting all the images. Our information source regarding the results was not reachbale after the race and we will get details on the result during the course of the day. Below you find a translation by Google translator as you find here on the website, of the La Paz newspaper sport section covering the race. A record of 150 entries are announced to start at El Centenario having all the goal to reach the Tecolote Beach at the other end of the city by doing a loop thru southern Baja racing to and along the Pacific site of the peninsula and crossing over to the Sea of Cortez near Todos Santos. Luis “Fito” Ramirez won the race in overall time of 3 hours 34 minutes 24 seconds. There was some kind of a “traffic-jam” near Los Filos so that many of the race paricipants had a severe delay. continue