Puerto Escondido is in the Mexican state of Oaxaca (pronounced woh-hah-kah), el corazon de México (the heart of Mexico). Situated in the extreme southern portion of Mexico, Puerto Escondido is home to a giant submarine canyon that makes it the recipient of macking surf year-round. Because Puerto is at the base of the Sierra Madre mountains, the winds that come out of the mountains every morning are offshore and last until about 11:00 a.m. The climate and terrain is straight out of the movie Romancing The Stone, which was filmed in nearby Puerto Vallarta. In the summer months, daytime temperatures can reach over 90 degrees Fahrenheit; combine that with the 90-plus-percent humidity, and it’s simply blazing.\n\nTo put it plainly: The waves around Puerto Escondido get freakin’ huge. The beach known as Playa Zicatela has several peaks strewn along it. Carmelita’s is a right located at the north end of the beach that features a gut-wrenching tube. Directly in front of Bungalow Zicatela is a nice area with peaks all over the place and plenty of señoritas on the beach watching the action. Down past Mexpipe Surf Shop is the mythical Far Bar, a left that doesn’t break as often as the rest of the area, but when it does, look for a big left tube that breaks boards and bodies with alarming frequency. At the southern end of the beach is La Punta, a rippable left point that is perfect for when the beachbreak gets too much to handle. Do yourself a favor when surfing the beachbreak: don’t paddle from peak to peak. Be patient and wait for waves that don’t close out, the payoff is worth the wait.
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Barra is the best place by far in that region. They are holding a WCT event there the rip curl search but wont reveal that the wave is actually barra. Andy irons pat oconnel and the mobster just got back from a surf trip therte and told me it was epic!
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BalearWeb: Mallorca - Menorca - Ibiza - Formentera\n\nHome Accommodation Directory News Reports Exhibitions Blog More... \nCatalàEspañolEnglishDeutsch\n   All the towns El Pilar de la Mola Sant Ferran de ses Roques Sant Francesc Xavier     \nFormentera >> News >> Environment >> Destruction at any cost \nDestruction at any cost\n \nGreenpeace report on the state of the coastline.\n\nGreenpeace has presented the report "Destruction at any cost 2005" that analyses the state of the Spanish coastline. The report highlights the degradation suffered by the coastal and marine environment due to human activities. The main causes of this deterioration are the massive building, the contamination and the construction of new marinas.\n\nThe report by Greenpeace is specially critical with the situation of the coast in the Balearic archipelago. According to the environmental organisation, the cancellation of the urban moratorium and the construction of new marinas brings up the "balearisation" again, term used by the specialists to define the coastal degradation.
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If you want a nice place in the piney woods then you should head to Walden Texas. i go there every summer to play golf there. It is so much fun. They even have the hardest hole in Texas if you want a challenge. The hole playes into a lake with a dog leg right with water on both sides of the green. It is also home of lake conroe. There is fishing and fireworks there too if u can hang for the New Year. Plus you can rent boats. By the way did i say that it was very cheap. Around 500 for a family of 3. later
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Your question should read:\n\nWho owns Baja California?\n\n~ Or ~\n\nWhat country is Baja California in?\n\nThe answer is Mexico.\n\nBaja California is located in the extreme northwest corner of the Mexican Republic.\n\nBaja California is bounded on the north by the American States of California and Arizona; at the northeast tip by the State of Sonora, which is the only land area that joins the Baja California peninsula to rest of the country; and on the south by the State of Baja California Sur.\n\nBaja California has a population of approximately 2'487,367 inhabitants.\nThis state has 4 municipalities; The biggest is Ensenada, with an area of more than 51,000 sq. km (19,690 sq. mi.). The total area of the Baja California state is 70,113 sq. km (27,070 sq. mi.), not including the insular territory.\n\nThe climate of Baja California is hot and dry, but the state's geographical location, to the north of the Tropic of Cancer, gives it a well defined winter. In the northeast, the climate is semi-desert, with very high temperatures in the summer and at the beginning of fall. The winter is rainy, but not extremely so. To the northwest, from the U.S. border to San Quintin Bay, the climate is mild with hot summers. The winter is rainy with prevailing westerly winds.\n\nIn the San Pedro Martir Mountains, the highest area of the state, the climate is mild in the summer and cold in the winter, with snow in the area of the astronomic observatory.\n\nIn the desert and sandy zones to the south of Rosarito, the climate is very dry, extremely hot in summer, and the large temperature difference between day and night.
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Have you ever been to Tijuana? DO NOT DRINK THE WATER, not even coffee! I thought it is was the nastiest place I had ever seen. I actually stayed in Rosarita instead! Sorry you may like it and I am not trying to be negative about your trip I am just trying to help. And sorry I do not know where you can rent a ultralight trike.
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I would try GoManzanillo web site listed below (I hope) but even that is tourist oriented.  Mexico works on word of mouth and you'll do much better talking to people in person.  Santiago is close and maybe your best bet for an inexpensive apartment.  When you first arrive try Hotel Maria Christina in DT Santiago for about $20us and maybe cheaper by the week or month.  They have a nice pool.
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Blacks beach in Northern San Diego county is well known among the better surfers in southern california for being the one of the best if not the best surfing spots in Southern California.  Not only is the break really clean because of the underwater canyon, the beach is also very isolated because you have to walk down the cliff to get there.  If you want to surf around Orange County I would recommend either San Clemente or Laguna Beach.  You want to stay away from Huntington at all costs during the summer.
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Small parts of California may fall into the ocean, but what is really happening--and has been happening for millions of years--is that a strip of western California is traveling northwest, relative to the rest of the continent which is moving southeast. The line between them is called the San Andreas Fault, and that's where many of the California earthquakes happen. \n\nI've seen a map that has that strip splitting off to form an island--or a very long penninsula like that by Baja California--in about 50 million years.
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It's tough - because the kind of Christmas of which you speak is the kind that is built through the family relationships.  It is next to impossible to get that without the family (the tree, the tradition, the smells of cooking, etc.)  Those who have said NYC are dead on, actually, for scenes of the holiday season.  It is a beautiful place for Christmas - also Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia.  I was in Venice for Christmas once and it was WONDERFUL.  They say Cancun celebrates for over a week leading up to Christmas and that it's great.  Bottom line, though, is that you will do better getting your own tree, decorating your own home to the hilt, and cooking up a storm (or ordering cooking up a storm) in for all the friends you have that don't have family around.
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Mexico. Preferably northern. Beautiful and inexpensive, rich and friendly culture. Close to home(if ur from the US). You shouldn't live near a beach though in my opinion. What if a brutal storm comes?? say goodbye to your belongings, some where a couple of miles away form the water would be good. That way you can go to the beach as a treat and it wont become mundane.
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Guadalupe & Frio, river is packed every weekend all summer - New Braunfels is around 30 min west on 35\n\nIt's safe. The rapids & falls are very easy & most people go down on a tube instead of a raft. Water isn't the cleanest though...
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zihuatanejo (see wah tah NAY ho) is located in the municipio of josé azueta (zihuatanejo de azueta) in the state of guerrero on the pacific coast of mexico... about a hundred miles northwest of acapulco. the tourist resort of ixtapa (eeks TAH pah) is only about 3 miles away.
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Water Level is very Low. And hard to say about the glassy water. Some days are better then others. Sometimes on high wind days waves can be over 3 ft tall. But for the most part it is good skiing. And fuel up your boats etc before you get there gas prices are over the top! And paradise? Well if you think Paradise is lake Powell then it probably still is!
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Hya luv, I was looking for this type of hol during this years summer......\n\nAnyway, we where advised to go to the Saturno Jupiter in Alcudia for all the reasons you state...all inc, loads of sun, facilities for the kids etc.............To cut 2 very expensive weeks short! It was an absolute sh.it hole (excuse my language) the rooms where dirty, the food disgusting, facilities -crap, the pools, all 5 dirty often with ST's and poo floating in them!\n\nDo not go there!!!\n\nOn a lighter note the year before we stayed at the Hotel Hawaii in Magaluff, we stayed half board but you could go all inc - food - fab, night entertainment - kids loved it, Kids day and pool entertainment - loved it, The whole hotel was spotless and the cost to go there was very reasonable!\n\nHope this helps!!!\nHappy hols
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Bishop, Ca.  Mammoth, Ca. I love this area.  Check out Mammoth Times.com for tons more info. I live in San Diego and really enjoy traveling the 400 miles to this area.  The fishinG is wonderful.  Trout in the 7 pound range. June lake loop is hot.  Silver Lake, on the opposite shore from  the enterance, is really great fishing in the afternoon. Must be the shadows from the trees. Georgous scenery too.  \n\nCheck out Yellowknife in the Northwest Terrotories of Canada.  Especially "Great Slave Lake".  GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FISHING!
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actually yes they've been talking about this a lot recently in light of the last big tsunami. There's an island that's pretty much just a volcano (forget the name but you could find it easily) that the next time it erupts, it will lose some of it's mass into the ocean and cause a tsunami headed towards the East coast. AS far as the west coast goes, any tsunami generated here would be the sliding of the tectonic plates offshore. so if we have a heavy earthquake out there, the west coast would be hit.
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obviously you are referring to ocean weather conditions.  from surfing i know that off shore winds mean the wind is blowing towards the ocean (pacific side would be west) and onshore means the wind is blowing off the ocean towards the beach (pacific side would be east)  off shore makes for the best surf, incaser you were wondering.