Baja Quest Racing

Baja Quest Racing is participating in 2007 40th anniversary Baja 1000. Featuring from Ensenada to Bay of LA is Driver Stanley Burns with Co-pilot Carlos Murillo. From Bay of LA to Loreto is Diver Ray Avila and Co-pilot File Viaz. From Loreto to Cabo is Driver Stanley Burns with Co-pilot Carlos Murillo. All Drivers and co-pilots are Loreto residents. The Crew chief over seeing all pit stops is Tim Maas , also from Loreto.

There is more to come during the rest of the day. See Quad-Look makes it happen for a short overview until we post more details here or visit Puro Offroad for Baja 1000 news. See the team’s page at Baja Quest - Quad-Lock Racing.

Loreto BCS blog and website approved by McAfee

SiteAdvisor tested this website and blog and did not find any problems. You can see the test results here. Why do we announce this?? There have been accusations made - (Cambridge Dictionaries definition = “a statement saying that someone has done something morally wrong, illegal or unkind, or the fact of accusing someone”) on another Baja public platform by members of that platform (NOT the operator) - that we are a “s*p*a*m*i*n*g* website. We are not! Most search engines will penalize a page which uses s*p*a*m*m*i*n*g. Also called s*p*a*m*d*e*x*i*n*g. In a different context, s*p*a*m*m*i*n*g is also the practice of sending unsolicited bulk e-mail. Let us explain why it has a certain importance to us to elaborate on that topic with an example.

Let’s contemplate somebody goes onto a public forum and makes a post stating “John Doe is a scum bag and he cheats other people.” No big deal, some people may read it, other’s not - whatever. This post, like millions of others from that forum and all other interactive platforms on the internet will be “seen” by a search engine crawler or “spider” as they are called and indexed in that search engine.

Let’s also contemplate for this example that John Doe is a cabinet maker. You are on another site out there looking for a cabinet maker in your area and you see John Doe promoting his services on the net. Some people use the search engine now also to check “John Doe” and run a search. Guess what - the post stating “ John Doe is a scum bag…” WILL pop up. We assume that would make a potential client doubt the qualities of John and may choose to move on to another cabinet maker. So, we guess this example explains this post.

We are not participating in any fishy stuff on the Loreto BCS website. We may be slow in developing it - hey, after all this is the country of mañana. And most of it: we don’t want too much self-produced content up here, What we would like to provide is a platform for people of that area - in this case Loreto - to participate, make announcements, promote their services or just meet online for some chit-chat by posting. What’s wrong with that?? You can read our terms of service and privacy policy here. To contact us is easy with the mail forms. So enjoy the stay at Loreto BCS online and have a great day!! :-)

Long distance swim competition @ Baja Sur

The swim Challenge 2007 is happening! At November 4 2007 you can compete in a 6 kilometer or 10 kilometer long distance swim competition along the shores of Isla Espiritu Santo. The swim challenge event is open for everybody to participate and serves a good cause: If you care about the Sea of Cortez and want to help protect it, then be part of the Isla Espirtu Santo Swim Challenge! The race combines physical challenge, eco-tourism, discovery and fun. For more information and contact options visit here

Sea of Cortez Swim Challenge

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Loreto Weather and Loreto Maps are coming up…

Hi all, here's a quick overview from the publisher of this website. Of course as a European gringo with the f@#$*&%ing vision (….what did I drink that particular evening??) to build a network of Baja Sur websites I take the freedom NOT spending too much time on checking my English writing for now. So PLEASE: I develop the website and when done complete let a native US-English copy-writer go and correct the content. Read the About Loreto BCS on this blog for more info.

We did finish 2 Loreto BCS webpages with maps. The Loreto Infotheque makes use of the Google Maps applications available to display the areas. This is just the beginning and the final product will be a few days away. But, not just us, the Infotheque, but YOU as "Loreto native" are challenged to participate! We can ad more points of interest if you provide them. So feel free and get in touch with us. You can do so via the Loreto Blog Contact or our "regular" contact page. The new Loreto maps page you can view here while an extended version for sportfisher and scuba divers can be found here. We are scripting our heads off to have all up and running by the middle of September. Same for the Loreto weather - we have a temporary display on current Loreto weather conditions here in the Loreto blog sidebar or at the Loreto Forum weather board. Yet, there is some in the pipeline, a full fledged weather page with every available weather feed or condition display available. Give it few (few as of: 2-3 weeks, no manyana deals here…Wink)weeks and stay tuned…..