Episode 73 - One Golf Course, Two Lighthouses

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Hi everyone, I'm Vince and I'm Emily and you're

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listening to the lighthouse lowdown Welcome to

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the show one of the very few times I get to touch

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this button Don't look at the screen for a second.

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Okay Gotta get up our get up our slides All right,

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let's go to the very last slide. So I think that's

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kind of the beginning. All right Now we're on.

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Excellent. I'm at a 200 % zoom on my screen.

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So as you may hear, we're a little bit rusty,

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especially myself behind the microphone. So we're

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back in the game. Welcome to episode 73. Is there

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anything you want to say about today before we

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get taken off? Any pointers? Well, I have returned

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to the Lucky Charms latte that I had from Scooters

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last time. And I'm having it again, even though

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now I'm supposed to be on a diet. You may proceed.

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Everybody understands that. So, first thing first.

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Today we're going to talk about one golf course,

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two lighthouses. Wait, what? I know. I thought

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when I first saw it on the screen, I thought

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that you were going to be covering, I don't know,

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multiple golf courses. Multiple lighthouses.

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Really? But this seems to be more interesting.

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Why did you think that? Where did you see that?

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Because I remember you saying that you wanted

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to do coverage of lighthouses at golf courses.

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So I figured that was going to be more of an

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expansive coverage. I kind of gave that away,

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huh? I like this. Our partner, Joey the Cat,

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has settled in. Good. He's ready to listen, too.

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Here comes Bo. He also wants to do that. I mean,

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I guess I'll try. If everybody else is in here,

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then I guess I will too. So one golf course,

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two lighthouses, episode 73, the lighthouse history

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buoy for the day. What do you think? You have

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one. Of course. How many golf balls have broken

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lighthouse windows? I don't know. But the history

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buoy of the day is what's the deal with lighthouses

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and golf courses? Okay, because there are a couple.

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It turns out there are a lot, actually. So I'm

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going to get to the content of our episode today

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because I found an article that inspired me.

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It was Lynx Magazine, which is obviously about

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golf. Oh, yeah. It's a golf -focused article,

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but it was the top lighthouses in golf, top 10.

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Number six on the list was, can you have a guess?

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Highland Lighthouse? Highland Lynx, yes. Excellent.

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So it was the top lighthouses in golf, not necessarily

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the best. Golf courses that have lighthouses.

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Oh, there is some, there's some crossover, like

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the best lighthouse at a golf course versus the

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best golf course. Okay. At a lighthouse. So it's

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more lighthouse forward than golf forward. This

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particular article. Yes. Okay. Which is kind

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of interesting for a golf magazine, especially

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an internet publication. But, um, they have like

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the history of each one in their, in their article.

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They had a quick overview. I can actually bring

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it on screen here. I'm kind of curious. Just

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like how well are they representing? Oh, I can't

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view it anymore. Hold on. What's another? You

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could probably still scroll down. It's just that

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you couldn't see it very well. What's another

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browser? Firefox. You have that on your computer?

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Just one minute. I just need one minute. I can

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hack into the mainframe. I just need one minute.

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I can hack. I can hack in. Just give me one minute.

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Look, three of three free articles remaining

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this month. Amazing. Thanks, Lynx Magazine. And

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thank you, Firefox. I'm going to zoom. Zooming

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in. Well, so I can see. I've got the old man

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glasses on. So we're not going to read the whole

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article. No, I just want to see how much they're

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working. I'll give you an example. So we'll go

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Tasmania. This one's beautiful. Cobble Beach.

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Oh, my gosh. Amazing. It's been added to my list.

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We'll come back. It's added to your list? Uh

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-huh. I latched onto that so fast. I was like,

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I'm doing that. Fine. I'll leave it. So here

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we have the coverage of Highland links. And if

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you don't know, when we visited Cape Cod, we

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played nine holes at Highland links. I kind of

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wish we played 18, but it is a nine hole course.

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Yes. We think it's the oldest links in the United

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States. And it's a, it's, I've only played a

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couple of links style courses, but we'll talk

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about that. What that means is it's along the

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water. There's usually not a lot of trees. The

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characteristics of the golf course are such that

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it's based on the beach landscape. So there's

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sandy greens. This one was built in the 1800s,

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but their coverage here says North Truro, Massachusetts,

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which is accurate. It's a nine -hole treasure

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perched along cliffs overlooking the Atlantic

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Ocean. The Scottish -inspired course, which had

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originally had sand greens when it was founded

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in the late 1800s, is one of the oldest golf

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facilities in Cape Cod, and it's situated next

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to the Highland Light Station that's owned by

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the National Park Service. Okay, so they don't

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have a lot of details. They actually really don't

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have any details about the lighthouse. Yeah.

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They have good photos, and then I think they

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want you to kind of delve further. Yeah, they

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want you to do your own research. So there's

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this, and then another citation of mine on this

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episode. So this is like the top ten also. Kauai.

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I was mad I missed this one. Oh, beautiful. When

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I was in Kauai. Ireland. Oh, yeah. Incredible.

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Hey, hey, hey. We should do that honeymoon style.

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Go to a golf course. Ireland? Yeah, not in March

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or January or February. What? I think Ireland's

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more of a summer trip. If anyone knows about

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Ireland and wants to reach out, please do so.

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That's one of the... I'm going to get sidetracked,

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but look at this. This green right by the base

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of Maine. See, that is... rip rap that i actually

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want to walk over it's flat so i mean as far

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as i know the the beginning of this you're gonna

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see our location we're talking about one golf

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course two lighthouses today uh came from my

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research for our honeymoon then if you're not

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familiar emily and i are getting married married

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in december of this year yep married you wait

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for me to do that every time and uh So I'm looking

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to plan a honeymoon. Yeah, I put him in charge

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of honeymoon. But now I'm kind of like, I'm getting

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tense because I usually have my fingers all in

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the pie of vacation planning. So it makes me

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nervous to just be like, what are you cooking

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up over there? Yep, I cook a lot. When it comes

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to these types of pies. Well, golf course and

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lighthouses. That sounds like an amazing activity

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for a honeymoon. It does. It crosses our two

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interests at the deepest level. Also, I will

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say this author who did this article, I can't

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find his name. Oh, Eric. I was going to say called

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Brian. Eric M. He also mentioned in the other

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article that I read that shows more lighthouses

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that there are several golf courses that have

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the word lighthouse in them. That have no lighthouse.

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Oh. Or that the lighthouse is not even visible.

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Like it's, yeah, it's over there. Yeah. Like,

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oh, we're close by. It's 1 .2 miles on the other

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side of this. You sully the name. Like if you

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look up lighthouse, you're going to find a lot

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of church stuff. If you're in our area. Yes.

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Like beacons of hope sort of thing. The lighthouse

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church. They don't even have a lighthouse. We

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have lighthouse stuff around us. And I'm like,

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whatever. So, so what's the deal, right? That's

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the history of Bowie. We talked about Highland

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Links. We get it. If you get to one of these

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courses, especially Highland Links, in our experience,

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you'll understand that there's a significant

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crossover where you could just go and play golf,

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and the lighthouse is a key feature of the things

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you're going to look at. It's beautiful. It's

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awesome. First -order lens. But if you just go

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to the lighthouse, you're also going to be going

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through the golf course property, which is true

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of a lot of these things. There's a crossover

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right there. There's local history and culture

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around lighthouses and some of these historic

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courses, uh, links style courses are always on

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the coast. And so often our lighthouses. Yeah.

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Um, and then like we talked about the view, it's

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a, it's a wonderful view to have a lighthouse

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and a coastline. So exciting. That's my buoy

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of the day. And we are back. It's like a picture

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that's. Relevant to our thing today? It sure

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is. This is one of the two lighthouses at the

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golf course. This photo's a little blurry, and

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you're going to probably see it again later.

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But if you look down to the left, you're going

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to see some fairways. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Where would

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you guess that this is? Oh. I see Rocky, maybe

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some cactus. So I'm going to say Arizona. Is

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it close? It's kind of close. We're in America?

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No. Okay. Mexico? It is Mexico. And now that

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we say that, I can say there's going to be a

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lot of mispronunciations in here. Sorry, folks.

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I never took any Spanish at all. No. Albanyo,

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I think, is bathroom. Por favor, I think, is

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please. And I think faro is lighthouse. Yeah.

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I think. Yes. So just get that out there. Um,

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but I'm going to interrupt not for a message

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from our sponsors, but instead for a Google maps

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view of where we're going. You love that. So

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we're going to go down to Mexico. I read the

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tip of the little, uh, arm. Yeah. So that's the,

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the Baja, California, Baja, California, sir,

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which I think is South. Oh, okay. Surface below.

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I don't know. I'm trying. But right at the tip,

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and this is Cabo San Lucas. So when people talk

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about Cabo San Lucas, this is where it's at.

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If you're going to visit Mexico. Wait, Cabo,

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is that somewhere tropical? Or like, is that

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where people vacation? It's a big vacation destination.

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So people say Cabo San Lucas. They talk about

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Cancun. Anyways, Cancun and then Puerto Vallarta.

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Hey, Belize, I've been there. These are the names

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we hear often. I didn't know that it was connected

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to Mexico. I was a child. Oh, my gosh. So Cabo

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San Lucas is kind of actually a small town, but

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there's lots going on here. And the lighthouse

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that we were just looking at. So there's Ferro

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de Cabo San Lucas, which is the one we had in

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the image. And then the second lighthouse is

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Ferro Viejo, which is the old lighthouse. It

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looked like ruins. But there's several golf courses,

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and we're going to talk about one in particular.

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It's down here. So Playa, I think, is beach.

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Quivira. So we have a street in our city called

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Quivira. I read that it's pronounced Quivira.

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Yeah, I can see that. So again, I don't Spanish.

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Sorry, everyone. But I'm going to close out of

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maps for now. So now you get an idea where we're

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at. But this is El Ferro Viejo, which is the

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old lighthouse. I want this type of stone architecture

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for my future house. It's a little bit Pueblo

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style. Yeah. Which makes sense being in Mexico.

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How old? 1905. Okay. Not that old, surprisingly.

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But I think it's in a rough area as far as weather

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goes. And the construction is really interesting

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of this lighthouse. So we're going to talk about

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this lighthouse mostly. And the other one, I'll

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just mention what I found. I didn't find a lot,

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to be fair. So this is the old lighthouse. It's

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hard. Any lighthouses outside the U .S. aren't

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as well documented. Yeah, yeah. Anytime we get

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south of the border or north of the border or

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east or west of the border. So the old lighthouse

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at Cabo Falso, Cabo San Lucas. Faro de Cabo Falso,

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Los Cobos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Wow.

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Go, Vince. Founded the 5th of May in 1905. Nice.

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There was a celebration each year on Cinco de

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Mayo. You need to say it right. Every year, Cinco

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de Mayo. Just wanted to make sure. I can tell

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you, this is not my language. We go to Germany,

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I have a chance. I've had some German lighthouses.

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We haven't covered any of those. I don't think

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we have. Yeah. So I've got. Four pictures here.

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This is the first of four that are from the year

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2015. There's a big celebration. Like we said,

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there's a celebration every year. It's the oldest

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structure in Cabo San Lucas. Oh, really? Yeah.

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What? Before anything else? Or is it still surviving?

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The oldest is still surviving. Okay. Now, as

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you're going to see, there's lots of development

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in Cabo San Lucas, probably due to tourism. Also,

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like, I don't know how to say this, second homes.

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Oh. Very nice destinations, whether those be

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Mexican or international guests. So 2015, there

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was a couple of pictures taken. The credit's

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right on the photo, which is nice. But there

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was a big memorial that they held at the lighthouse.

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And it's the 110th anniversary. So the first

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use of the lighthouse. The doors are nice. Yeah,

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they did a pretty good job. We're going to see,

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if you look real close, you're going to see some...

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Oh, yeah. Hatchy items, to be fair. But it's

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been there a long time. And like a lot of lighthouses.

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Oh, yeah. I see how that happened. It is an effort

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to keep up. Yeah, boarded up windows and stuff

00:14:17.309 --> 00:14:22.529
is like par for the course. I get it. So good.

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Thank you. In the Cabo San Lucas area, there

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are... This is a very well -known lighthouse

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over 100 years old. Photos dating back to 1905.

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Now that I say that, did I include those photos?

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No. Because I have them. In case I didn't, I'm

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just going to wing for a second and show you

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two photos. So here's one supposedly from 1905.

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Dudes with donkeys and fantastic cats. I can't

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tell. I think there was a caption on this about

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the construction. of the lighthouse, whether

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it was recently completed or in the works. But

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you can see there is a lantern room on top of

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that tower. Yeah, there is. And at current day,

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there is not anymore. It's also like very Scottish,

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I think. The style? Yeah. Yeah. It's got a cupola.

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It appears to have a lightning rod on top. Nice

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little balcony there. Yeah, balcony with railing.

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So it's a full lighthouse. Obviously, there's

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a stair tower. But if this really was taken in

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1905, that kind of explains the quality of the

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photo. Yeah, and it looks like they, like why

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is the sky whited out? Like in a way that makes

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the lighthouse look like it's made of sand. I

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don't know. Don't know. It's interesting. But

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cool photo. And then we have one more construction

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of the tower. So the structure is not yet here.

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Another black and white. I think that's a person

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up by the cupola. Yeah, it looks like it. Just,

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you know, adding the finishing touches. I don't

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know what they're doing. But you see ladders

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and framework. And the framework is actually

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still there as you walk around the inside of

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that house. Oh, cool. I was going to say, it's

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cool that they build little wood frames for the

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doors before they build the stone around it.

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Yeah. Interesting. I mean, you'd have to have

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some kind of marker for building up the doors.

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Yeah, I don't know how. I've never thought about

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that. I don't know how this construction is categorized

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or how that really works. Very cool. Very cool.

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In 1905, the designer and the executor of construction

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for this lighthouse was the engineer Joaquin

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Gomez Palacios. Probably Joaquin. Joaquin. I

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tried. All right. A native of Madrid, Spain.

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Okay. Hey. So a Spanish man. Been there. He was

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the engineer and constructor. And we have been

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to Madrid. It was constructed at the turn of

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the 20th century. The lighthouse of the False

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Cape was built to guide ships safely around the

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peninsula's tip as they navigated through often

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rough waters. I can imagine. I never thought

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about having to sail around this long strip of

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land. Any peninsula, right? Often happens. So

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it's between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of

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Cortez. Cortez. Yeah. Wasn't that the guy? It's

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inland of the Baja del Sur. Okay. So between

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there and mainland Mexico. So what are you saying?

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Isn't that the guy? Isn't that the guy? Cortez.

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Cortez. Pirate's name. Isn't that the guy? He

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was Spanish who came over to like find America

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or something? Let me do a quick look. That wasn't

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Christopher Columbus you're talking about. No,

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no, I'm talking about a Spanish guy. The Spaniards

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came to... Oh, Conquistador? Who led expedition

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that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire. Asshole.

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Okay, so I knew that. Rude. We lost significant

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culture because of this doofus. If you have seen

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the movie Apocalypto, I believe it is a depiction

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of Cortez at the end, landing. So is Road to

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El Dorado. no way yeah oh yeah that's what i

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thought of i was like you know when miguel is

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like have you side note have you seen apocalypto

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no it is a mel gibson directed the film okay

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so kind of a wild card but it's basically he

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uh i heard him interviewed recently he wanted

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to make a chase movie like a car chase except

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on foot that was the original premise that's

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i like those kind of movies and it's in the Aztec

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early Mexico days. I don't know intelligently

00:18:45.250 --> 00:18:48.369
how to say that, but cool movie. If you're interested,

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big action movie. Azteci is a term that I would

00:18:51.750 --> 00:18:56.750
use to describe. Azteci. So the Sea of Cortez,

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right, is the location for a lot of those ships.

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The location of the lighthouse was strategic,

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but also easily mistaken for the nearby Cape

00:19:05.690 --> 00:19:09.720
San Lucas. Oh, no. Thus the name. false cape.

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This is the false cape. Shoot. The lighthouse

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served faithfully as an aid to navigation and

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it was a welcoming site for ships arriving from

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distant ports. So recently, which is shown in

00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:27.160
this photo, the lighthouse was restored. So the

00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:28.720
restoration you're going to see, they did not

00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:31.960
put a lantern room atop the lighthouse, which

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kind of makes me sad. I think it's because the

00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:37.579
other lighthouse, which is Ferro de Cabo San

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Lucas, which I think was built 1980s. You can't

00:19:42.569 --> 00:19:44.990
really tell, but you're going to see where I

00:19:44.990 --> 00:19:47.609
think that. I think that's a real lighthouse,

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and it's still in action today. So you can go

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up to it. I'm getting ahead of myself. So the

00:19:53.890 --> 00:19:55.890
restoration of the old lighthouse was around

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the year 2000. In the late 1900s, not much more

00:20:00.210 --> 00:20:02.109
than a base remained of the lighthouse built

00:20:02.109 --> 00:20:05.049
in 1890. I thought 1905. Maybe that was the lighting.

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But the spectacular view. is still available

00:20:08.569 --> 00:20:12.329
from 500 feet above the water. 500 feet? A lot

00:20:12.329 --> 00:20:15.569
of the information I was able to find here on

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the old lighthouse is based off of people's experiences

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in visiting the area. So this is an anecdote

00:20:21.430 --> 00:20:28.549
from, let's say, the late 1990s. They say, in

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addition to the lighthouse, it has the remains

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of a shipwreck below. Turtles use the beach to

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lay their eggs, which I've seen photos of. Pretty

00:20:36.490 --> 00:20:39.839
cool. And to get there, go down this road, there's

00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:41.140
a dirt road, and then you're at the lighthouse.

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Access to this lighthouse has changed in how

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you can get there and what's there and what land

00:20:46.579 --> 00:20:49.240
it's on. And we will talk about that. But before

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I forget, I'm really not going to cover the other

00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:52.900
lighthouse much. I don't know much about it.

00:20:52.940 --> 00:20:56.140
But Faro de Cabo San Lucas. It's still there.

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It's an active aid to navigation. And you can

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get there. If you want to, there are hikes you

00:21:00.980 --> 00:21:03.839
can find to get to it. And there's a road that

00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:06.400
goes up to it. It's higher in elevation than

00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:08.839
this one, I think, by 200 feet. It's 700 feet

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up. That's crazy. Yeah. And I didn't think about

00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:13.859
it, but you can tell from this photo how high

00:21:13.859 --> 00:21:16.119
up we are above the water. It is. It just goes

00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:19.450
on forever. Yeah. It's beautiful. Beautiful spot.

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Wow. Okay, so they did a really good job restoring

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it, even though obviously it couldn't salvage

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the lantern room. So I'm showing images now from

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October of 1989 and then another image from 2014

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after the restoration. And they did some nice

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landscaping, did a nice retaining wall. That's

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what we're talking about. And good for them.

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I don't know if it's the city that does this

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or Mexico as a country. I don't know who funds

00:21:45.349 --> 00:21:48.690
it or does the work, but good for them. Before

00:21:48.690 --> 00:21:51.589
the restoration, it looks like maybe a fire or

00:21:51.589 --> 00:21:55.410
several fires happened in the facility. The large

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door to what else? I think it's the keeper's

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house is just gone. It's just laying on the ground.

00:22:01.789 --> 00:22:06.170
Yeah, it's like blown out. So likely it was vandalized,

00:22:06.170 --> 00:22:10.069
likely tourists and other humans and whatnot.

00:22:10.309 --> 00:22:16.599
So the restoration. Man, the restoration. did

00:22:16.599 --> 00:22:20.039
a really good job to make it into something that's

00:22:20.039 --> 00:22:23.880
really appealing to go by. I don't know if you're

00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:26.160
regularly allowed in. I couldn't find anything

00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:29.039
on tours, but I do have a couple ways that you

00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:30.660
can see this lighthouse that we're going to cover.

00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:35.880
I feel like the inside of the keeper's area would

00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:38.220
be the most exciting. Yeah. If you can't get

00:22:38.220 --> 00:22:40.299
up to the lantern room because it's not there.

00:22:40.500 --> 00:22:45.269
Oh, yeah. That would do it. So. I'm going to

00:22:45.269 --> 00:22:49.329
show you a video off of Facebook, and I do not

00:22:49.329 --> 00:22:54.430
speak Spanish. Once again. Okay. So I think this

00:22:54.430 --> 00:22:57.049
is a tourism promotion video, and I'm just going

00:22:57.049 --> 00:23:00.950
to let it play without volume while we kind of

00:23:00.950 --> 00:23:05.509
talk. But here's this gal, and she's going to

00:23:05.509 --> 00:23:08.609
take you to the lighthouse. Oh, she's taking

00:23:08.609 --> 00:23:11.069
us in? We will see the inside in some clips.

00:23:11.150 --> 00:23:12.750
So I think this is about four minutes, and I

00:23:12.750 --> 00:23:14.049
think it's just going to play while we talk.

00:23:14.150 --> 00:23:16.630
The doors are so beautiful. But small little

00:23:16.630 --> 00:23:20.450
squad of folks. So I'm going to talk about access

00:23:20.450 --> 00:23:24.970
to this lighthouse. So I have three dates where

00:23:24.970 --> 00:23:27.450
people made comments. So as of January 2008,

00:23:27.849 --> 00:23:30.890
which is before the restoration, the access road

00:23:30.890 --> 00:23:34.029
to the beach and the lighthouse has been chained

00:23:34.029 --> 00:23:37.250
off. There's a guard at the entrance gate advising

00:23:37.250 --> 00:23:39.849
the original access road is now private property.

00:23:40.069 --> 00:23:42.869
Shoot. Most of the area is undergoing some sort

00:23:42.869 --> 00:23:44.549
of development. We will continue to look for

00:23:44.549 --> 00:23:46.349
an access point at this section of the beach.

00:23:46.609 --> 00:23:50.210
Oh, no. Like, they're developing the area around

00:23:50.210 --> 00:23:55.750
the lighthouse? Yes. No! Yeah. That's so sad.

00:23:56.069 --> 00:23:57.450
You're going to see, and interrupt me anytime

00:23:57.450 --> 00:23:59.309
if you see something going on, but we will walk,

00:23:59.430 --> 00:24:01.950
they do walk through the lighthouse main areas

00:24:01.950 --> 00:24:04.980
here. So that was 2008. If you go back, I have

00:24:04.980 --> 00:24:06.880
a picture of people riding horses. It's not a

00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:08.700
very good quality picture, but it's in the 90s

00:24:08.700 --> 00:24:10.880
on some vacation. Riding horses on the beach

00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:13.079
down below. And you can see you can just go up

00:24:13.079 --> 00:24:15.759
to the lighthouse. There's like no, it's clearly

00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:20.180
open. No, it's just sand. How do you get up there

00:24:20.180 --> 00:24:23.140
from sand? You can hike up or ride the horses

00:24:23.140 --> 00:24:26.220
up. I feel like 500 feet is a lot. It's not a

00:24:26.220 --> 00:24:29.240
cliff, but it's 500 feet in quick elevation.

00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:31.640
It looks like a cliff. So we're seeing some shots

00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:35.519
of the inside. Wow. I think they show this spiral

00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:38.299
staircase terminating, like breaks halfway through.

00:24:38.940 --> 00:24:41.220
So this is post -restoration. So I'd say it's

00:24:41.220 --> 00:24:43.940
really focused on the outside, a lot of the improvements.

00:24:44.099 --> 00:24:45.880
And then, of course, the retaining wall we talked

00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:48.599
about. I think it's going to help the structure

00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:51.660
stay there for a while. Yeah, all being on sand.

00:24:51.900 --> 00:24:53.720
I don't think they've ever moved this lighthouse

00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:56.220
in what I saw. So the guy just pounding on the

00:24:56.220 --> 00:24:58.779
wall saying it's a strong structure. Something

00:24:58.779 --> 00:25:01.440
like that. I looked for translations and everything.

00:25:01.819 --> 00:25:05.019
Couldn't find it. 2008, there was development.

00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:09.180
No one knew what was happening. 2015, post -restoration,

00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:13.140
El Ferro Viejo, the old lighthouse, sits high

00:25:13.140 --> 00:25:15.200
on the dunes of the Pacific coast of Cabo San

00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:19.099
Lucas within Quivira Golf Course. The seventh

00:25:19.099 --> 00:25:22.619
hole is framed by El Ferro Viejo, a 19th century

00:25:22.619 --> 00:25:24.220
lighthouse that also happens to be one of the

00:25:24.220 --> 00:25:26.779
oldest structures in Cabo San Lucas. Founded

00:25:26.779 --> 00:25:29.470
in 1905. Some recurring info. The old lighthouse

00:25:29.470 --> 00:25:34.670
is currently available accessible via Kavira

00:25:34.670 --> 00:25:38.269
golf course and development. Okay. So they did

00:25:38.269 --> 00:25:41.250
allow people in when they were building the golf

00:25:41.250 --> 00:25:45.049
course and if you golfed. Okay. And then in 2021,

00:25:45.349 --> 00:25:48.190
renovations are being made around the old lighthouse,

00:25:48.329 --> 00:25:50.849
making it only accessible with a previous reservation

00:25:50.849 --> 00:25:53.930
for a guided visit in very strict hours. Okay.

00:25:53.950 --> 00:25:58.500
The entrance is via the Kavira golf course. And

00:25:58.500 --> 00:26:00.900
the old routes via the beach are in constant

00:26:00.900 --> 00:26:02.920
surveillance by the security of the golf course.

00:26:03.380 --> 00:26:05.680
So it's my understanding the only way, well,

00:26:05.799 --> 00:26:08.779
we'll get to some more ways. The best way to

00:26:08.779 --> 00:26:12.940
see this is to be a guest at the resorts. There

00:26:12.940 --> 00:26:14.920
are several resorts that get you access to the

00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:17.180
golf course. And you actually can go right by

00:26:17.180 --> 00:26:19.420
the lighthouse in between holes. You're going

00:26:19.420 --> 00:26:23.079
to see it on several holes. I would definitely

00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:25.140
do that. I think you don't actually have to play

00:26:25.140 --> 00:26:28.539
golf, but we'll get to that. You want to see

00:26:28.539 --> 00:26:32.359
it? I reached out to that resort owner to ask

00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:36.119
about access and to ask about golf greens fees.

00:26:36.299 --> 00:26:38.319
Like what does it cost if you want to go play?

00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:40.400
Cause it's a, it's a, we're going to get there.

00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:44.779
It's a beautiful course. So today the lighthouse

00:26:44.779 --> 00:26:48.279
is on the course and the course, I'm going to

00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:52.099
play another video on screen while I talk is

00:26:52.099 --> 00:26:54.720
incredible. And it's a minute long. I might actually

00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:56.519
play it a couple times just while I talk about

00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:59.539
the course. All right. But it's just like a very

00:26:59.539 --> 00:27:03.259
pretty, you know. So this is the course's content.

00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:05.559
So they're showing, look at the golf course.

00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:08.720
And also. Look at the water. Look at the, yeah,

00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:11.720
that's the Turtle Beach. Sorry for people who

00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:13.519
can't see what we're looking at. But go to our

00:27:13.519 --> 00:27:15.880
YouTube and YouTube can see. Please do check

00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:18.480
out the YouTube. Oh, the amount of balls we lose

00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:21.710
is. Just ridiculous. Yeah. You bring some extra

00:27:21.710 --> 00:27:24.950
balls, you'd have a good time. Don't worry about

00:27:24.950 --> 00:27:28.509
it. Have a margarita. But beautiful area. It's

00:27:28.509 --> 00:27:30.750
a whole resort, but the word golf is in the name

00:27:30.750 --> 00:27:33.170
of the resort. It's kind of their main feature.

00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:37.299
As club members and resort golfers at Quivira

00:27:37.299 --> 00:27:39.940
Golf Club can attest, the cart path that leads

00:27:39.940 --> 00:27:43.660
from the 6th Green to the 7th T skirts a jaw

00:27:43.660 --> 00:27:46.900
-dropping stretch of sheer granite cliffs before

00:27:46.900 --> 00:27:50.640
arriving at an equally unforgettable sight, the

00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:53.920
region's original lighthouse. Amazing. Situated

00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:58.299
at kilometer zero at True Land's End. Cool. Oh,

00:27:58.339 --> 00:28:01.970
that is cool. True Land's End. The exact place

00:28:01.970 --> 00:28:04.210
where the Sea of Cortez meets the Pacific Ocean,

00:28:04.390 --> 00:28:06.869
the fortress -like lighthouse is the oldest standing

00:28:06.869 --> 00:28:08.970
structure in Cabo San Lucas. Recurring information.

00:28:10.109 --> 00:28:13.369
Source of inspiration for poets, painters, and

00:28:13.369 --> 00:28:16.190
photographers, it is by far the most famous lighthouse

00:28:16.190 --> 00:28:20.910
in Baja, California, sir. It is also an enduring

00:28:20.910 --> 00:28:23.690
symbol of the region's navigational history and

00:28:23.690 --> 00:28:26.309
a cultural marker for the community. Very good.

00:28:26.410 --> 00:28:28.930
Even the most score conscientious golfer cannot

00:28:28.930 --> 00:28:31.009
help but marvel at the sturdy construction and

00:28:31.009 --> 00:28:34.750
octagonal stone tower at this national historic

00:28:34.750 --> 00:28:37.670
monument perched at the edge of a cliff more

00:28:37.670 --> 00:28:42.230
than 500 feet above the thrashing surf. Recently

00:28:42.230 --> 00:28:44.890
renovated, it was designed and built by the engineer

00:28:44.890 --> 00:28:47.869
we talked about, and while no longer operational,

00:28:48.269 --> 00:28:51.349
this sturdy edifice, fully exposed to the elements,

00:28:51.509 --> 00:28:54.829
has survived intact for over 110 years. Beautiful.

00:28:55.390 --> 00:28:57.029
Beautifully well written. Sorry, I'm reading

00:28:57.029 --> 00:28:58.970
and reading. Yeah, that's good. Peering down

00:28:58.970 --> 00:29:01.049
on the course from its rocky mountain perch nearly

00:29:01.049 --> 00:29:04.250
700 feet above the sea level is the newer Cabo

00:29:04.250 --> 00:29:06.950
Lighthouse, a cylindrical red and white striped

00:29:06.950 --> 00:29:10.170
tower that dates to 1959. I was wrong. Sorry.

00:29:10.309 --> 00:29:12.329
I don't even know my own content. Okay. No, it's

00:29:12.329 --> 00:29:15.490
fine. Ferroviejo may be dark, but this functioning

00:29:15.490 --> 00:29:18.369
lighthouse emits a white flash at night to guide

00:29:18.369 --> 00:29:21.589
ship traffic after dark. Interesting content

00:29:21.589 --> 00:29:24.190
from the course. I would say that they're doing

00:29:24.190 --> 00:29:26.750
a good job. Here's a shot kind of reverse of

00:29:26.750 --> 00:29:29.210
what we just saw of the two lighthouses before

00:29:29.210 --> 00:29:33.309
restoration. Pretty rough, to be honest. Yeah,

00:29:33.430 --> 00:29:36.690
that was on its way out before they fixed it

00:29:36.690 --> 00:29:39.809
up. So did the golf course fix it up, or you're

00:29:39.809 --> 00:29:42.210
saying you don't know who did the restoration?

00:29:42.210 --> 00:29:43.990
I don't think the golf course fixed it up, but

00:29:43.990 --> 00:29:47.049
I think the golf course purchased the land. Okay,

00:29:47.069 --> 00:29:50.210
because it is good. I could see how it would

00:29:50.210 --> 00:29:54.049
be a... like a pleasant point of focus for a

00:29:54.049 --> 00:29:56.190
golf course to be like, and look at this history.

00:29:56.269 --> 00:29:59.789
Look how beautiful. Yeah. And who knows? Like

00:29:59.789 --> 00:30:03.009
there's some weirdness with taxes. Oh, for sure.

00:30:03.170 --> 00:30:05.349
Historical sites in the United States. I don't

00:30:05.349 --> 00:30:07.789
know if Mexico has their own set of laws. Yeah.

00:30:08.609 --> 00:30:11.130
That I'm sure they do. I don't know. Oh my gosh.

00:30:11.150 --> 00:30:13.250
You could fall off the edge of any point of this

00:30:13.250 --> 00:30:15.769
golf course. Theoretically. Yeah. Just don't

00:30:15.769 --> 00:30:17.390
go over the edge. Don't go looking for your ball

00:30:17.390 --> 00:30:19.369
over there. Yeah. You're in that sand trap. Just

00:30:19.369 --> 00:30:22.140
pay attention. Oh my. Gosh, it's a sand trap.

00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:24.440
And the other side is just cliff edge. There's

00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:27.460
another green going up to the newer lighthouse.

00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:30.539
Beautiful. Some desert area. Obviously, it's

00:30:30.539 --> 00:30:32.720
a lynx course. It's a very difficult, narrow

00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:36.099
fairways. It's another green just down on a cliff

00:30:36.099 --> 00:30:40.119
edge. So beautiful. I imagine the wind would

00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:42.359
play hell on your shots. I mean, look at the

00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:45.740
flag. The flag is moving. It's straight out.

00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:47.259
Also, I don't know if you noticed, all the shots

00:30:47.259 --> 00:30:48.900
we've seen, the ocean has been kind of rough.

00:30:49.339 --> 00:30:51.319
And it's, like, choppy. It's not, like, even

00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:54.720
waves. Yeah. But. But it's very windy. We are

00:30:54.720 --> 00:30:58.019
going to look at the resorts here soon. It's

00:30:58.019 --> 00:31:00.920
nice. Oh, yeah. Is this you trying to pitch something

00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:02.980
for our honeymoon? No. We're not going to go

00:31:02.980 --> 00:31:05.140
to Mexico. That's the whole thing. Well, that's

00:31:05.140 --> 00:31:06.700
so sweet of you to actually, like, listen to

00:31:06.700 --> 00:31:10.000
my requests. And it's. I got to. For the people,

00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:12.720
they got to know. Why not Mexico, Emily? I just

00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:16.440
don't want to. I don't know why. You don't want

00:31:16.440 --> 00:31:18.579
to go here? I've heard no good stories about.

00:31:18.990 --> 00:31:20.970
like people visiting Mexico. It's always like

00:31:20.970 --> 00:31:23.650
getting sick from water or getting sick from

00:31:23.650 --> 00:31:27.170
drinks and food. And like, I have a fear of that.

00:31:27.289 --> 00:31:30.710
So I have an aversion to going to Mexico. I know

00:31:30.710 --> 00:31:33.470
that there's more good stories than bad, but

00:31:33.470 --> 00:31:36.150
like even one of my close friends from my friend

00:31:36.150 --> 00:31:39.529
group went to Mexico and got a parasite. What

00:31:39.529 --> 00:31:42.769
am I supposed to feel? Well, to be fair, and

00:31:42.769 --> 00:31:44.470
I don't want to turn you off to travel altogether,

00:31:44.789 --> 00:31:47.880
but I know that story from India. I know that

00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:50.440
story from China. I know. I even know that story

00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:55.240
from Germany. And usually, you know, us Americans

00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:57.380
have pretty consistent diets. We're eating foods

00:31:57.380 --> 00:32:00.579
that we don't usually eat. Way back in the day,

00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:04.740
parts of Mexico, like in Tijuana, like my dad

00:32:04.740 --> 00:32:08.200
told me a story of he saw ice being handled like

00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:12.640
on a sidewalk. No, no, no. That's a long time

00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:15.079
ago. Yeah. A very different place than where

00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:19.400
we're talking about. I think that you can be

00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:22.839
safe from getting sick if you eat at the right

00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:26.019
places and you're careful about water selection

00:32:26.019 --> 00:32:29.079
and whatnot. From what I read, especially in

00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:33.759
Mexico, that's really a thing of the past on

00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:37.599
all of the resorts and all of the nice developed

00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:42.180
areas. Anywhere that you would go, it's not a

00:32:42.180 --> 00:32:44.200
street vendor. A street vendor may have different...

00:32:44.730 --> 00:32:47.549
handling of food or whatever so maybe i don't

00:32:47.549 --> 00:32:49.549
know i don't want to turn everybody and and you

00:32:49.549 --> 00:32:52.250
off to traveling but i don't think it's mexico

00:32:52.250 --> 00:32:54.130
specific i know that's just where i've heard

00:32:54.130 --> 00:32:56.029
the most so it's just like it's one of those

00:32:56.029 --> 00:32:58.809
obvious ones that i'm like i don't want to go

00:32:58.809 --> 00:33:00.569
well you've probably heard it the most because

00:33:00.569 --> 00:33:03.130
it's the best place for us to travel here from

00:33:03.130 --> 00:33:07.369
the u .s affordable beautiful anyways i'm trying

00:33:07.369 --> 00:33:11.309
folks but we talked about how california or california

00:33:11.309 --> 00:33:15.079
how Mexico is not one of the places that we're

00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:18.000
looking right now for our honeymoon. Maybe a

00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:20.140
future trip to Mexico would be in the cards,

00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:23.359
but still working on it. Yeah, I'd have to, I

00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:26.519
don't know. I'd have to prepare myself. So I'm

00:33:26.519 --> 00:33:29.059
going to show us another site from the resort.

00:33:29.180 --> 00:33:32.799
So Pueblo Bonito is the name of the four resorts.

00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:35.700
Look at that. You see that? Yeah. The green is

00:33:35.700 --> 00:33:39.079
on a cliff. Very beautiful. Same area it's showing.

00:33:39.380 --> 00:33:42.200
How many balls do you think are down there? Oh,

00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:45.779
infinite. In the cracks of the rocks and stuff.

00:33:46.099 --> 00:33:49.839
Just such a beautiful place. And then you can

00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:51.680
go through and you can see, we're just going

00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:53.599
to browse for a little bit, but there are resorts.

00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:56.839
So that was the golf page. Oh, look at that.

00:33:57.259 --> 00:34:01.240
Specifically in Cabo, there are, what is this?

00:34:01.500 --> 00:34:06.700
Sunset Beach, Rose, Los Cabos, and then you start

00:34:06.700 --> 00:34:10.679
getting into Monte Cristo. But then there's also,

00:34:11.309 --> 00:34:14.809
I don't know how to say this. Mazatlan? Mazatlan.

00:34:15.389 --> 00:34:18.469
I don't know. A lot of these are, you know, right,

00:34:18.670 --> 00:34:21.789
so there's eight total. They're all on the oceanfront.

00:34:21.829 --> 00:34:23.750
This is the one I think I looked at was Pacifica.

00:34:23.750 --> 00:34:26.690
It's closest to the course. But you can play

00:34:26.690 --> 00:34:29.889
at the course if you're a guest. Or if you're

00:34:29.889 --> 00:34:33.590
an owner, there are, I have a fact sheet here.

00:34:34.329 --> 00:34:38.550
So, Cavera Las Cabos. There's a roughly 1 ,900

00:34:38.550 --> 00:34:42.590
-acre community. on a stretch of land destined

00:34:42.590 --> 00:34:45.969
to be the crown jewel of Los Cabos. Old lighthouse

00:34:45.969 --> 00:34:48.730
clubs, a private gated residential enclave, blah,

00:34:48.769 --> 00:34:53.949
blah, blah. And so there are, what's this? This

00:34:53.949 --> 00:34:57.650
is a bunch of homes, basically. 13 spectacular

00:34:57.650 --> 00:35:00.590
custom home sites nestled atop dramatic dunes

00:35:00.590 --> 00:35:03.590
perched 300 feet above the ocean. Prices start

00:35:03.590 --> 00:35:07.329
at $2 million. Oh, God. But it's all private.

00:35:07.449 --> 00:35:09.750
They say the average annual temperature is 78

00:35:09.750 --> 00:35:13.050
degrees Fahrenheit with 340 days of sunshine

00:35:13.050 --> 00:35:19.010
per year. Whoa. How is that possible? That's

00:35:19.010 --> 00:35:21.309
what I'm saying. Also, an average of 78 over

00:35:21.309 --> 00:35:24.550
the entire year makes me suspicious. What is

00:35:24.550 --> 00:35:28.769
it usually? 100 degrees? No, the average is 78.

00:35:29.110 --> 00:35:30.849
Yeah, if you take the average over the entire

00:35:30.849 --> 00:35:33.530
year, that can include some very low lows and

00:35:33.530 --> 00:35:39.139
very high highs. If we go to weather .com, let's

00:35:39.139 --> 00:35:41.900
look at, why is it so small? I don't know. We're

00:35:41.900 --> 00:35:43.639
looking at a 65 -inch TV, so I don't know if

00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:46.539
I'm blowing your guys' eyes away. So today, 71

00:35:46.539 --> 00:35:50.139
degrees. We're going to go to monthly. What?

00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:53.380
Oh, you're looking ahead. Maybe go backwards.

00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:57.039
No, it usually shows averages. Oh, sorry. Okay,

00:35:57.159 --> 00:35:59.199
never mind. It's not international. We don't

00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:01.900
get to have the nice things. But really what

00:36:01.900 --> 00:36:04.639
I want to do is look at this on hotels .com.

00:36:05.369 --> 00:36:09.130
So we're going to look at Pueblo Bonito, Pacifica

00:36:09.130 --> 00:36:11.329
was the one that I mentioned. All -inclusive.

00:36:11.429 --> 00:36:15.210
It's interesting. It's like this big resort building

00:36:15.210 --> 00:36:20.110
surrounded by just sand and rocks. Yeah. You

00:36:20.110 --> 00:36:22.650
know how a lot of resorts, they're not off by

00:36:22.650 --> 00:36:25.250
themselves. They're like nestled up to a bunch

00:36:25.250 --> 00:36:27.510
of other resorts. Yeah. They want to maximize

00:36:27.510 --> 00:36:33.380
the area. Yeah, there are. I think they own a

00:36:33.380 --> 00:36:35.179
big chunk of land and they have their resorts

00:36:35.179 --> 00:36:37.599
a little bit spread out. I think it keeps people

00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:40.039
probably from going between them maybe. Yeah,

00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:44.539
and it would feel more like exclusive. Yeah.

00:36:44.980 --> 00:36:48.800
Big, beautiful beach, cabanas. There's one of

00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:52.780
the rooms has a pool in the room like overlooking

00:36:52.780 --> 00:36:55.440
the ocean. Goodness gracious. Yeah, like a little

00:36:55.440 --> 00:36:58.099
infinity pool. Kayaking. Nice rock formations.

00:36:59.860 --> 00:37:04.000
Let's get back on track, comments. So if you're

00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:07.119
not a golfer, there are other ways that residents

00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:12.119
or guests of these places can visit Ferro Viejo.

00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:16.119
QLife, a lifestyle club that offers a comprehensive

00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:21.280
and synergistic approach to overall individual

00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:23.860
and group well -being, features yoga lessons

00:37:23.860 --> 00:37:26.099
in the beautiful location of the lighthouse.

00:37:26.619 --> 00:37:29.440
Oh. As well as guided tours through the natural

00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:32.679
trails around the lighthouse. Okay. While it's

00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:35.739
man -made, Ferro Viejo is every bit as iconic

00:37:35.739 --> 00:37:40.480
as El Arco, which is the natural sea arch visible

00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:42.260
from vantage points throughout Cabo San Lucas.

00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:47.159
Very famous large opening arch. So that is actually

00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:51.039
all I had. Wow. For one golf course, two lighthouses,

00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:54.420
Cabo San Lucas. I wish we could know more about

00:37:54.420 --> 00:37:57.880
the second lighthouse is like red and white striped

00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:01.719
on top of the crest of a... The high point, for

00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:04.679
sure. High point, yeah. I wish we could know

00:38:04.679 --> 00:38:07.199
more about it. White flashing? Yeah, white flash.

00:38:07.380 --> 00:38:09.820
There's some small buildings down here that are

00:38:09.820 --> 00:38:11.800
kind of cropped out of this photo. They might

00:38:11.800 --> 00:38:14.219
be like research stations. I don't think they

00:38:14.219 --> 00:38:16.579
have a keeper's quarters there. Yeah. But I think

00:38:16.579 --> 00:38:20.059
that it's probably news or weather, telephone,

00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:22.760
you know. Probably. Because of its position.

00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:26.159
Pretty cool. There is an airport there, Cabo

00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:27.860
San Lucas, so it might be related to that as

00:38:27.860 --> 00:38:31.920
well. Oh, true. Very nice. I've done some talking.

00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:35.699
I've got some people at work weighing in on if

00:38:35.699 --> 00:38:38.139
we had a t -shirt, what color the t -shirt would

00:38:38.139 --> 00:38:40.960
be. Really? Yeah. I said, what about these colors?

00:38:41.420 --> 00:38:44.079
Like which one would be the base t -shirt color?

00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:46.760
We're talking comfort colors, of course. Of course.

00:38:47.219 --> 00:38:49.539
I think the light blue that's on our tower is

00:38:49.539 --> 00:38:52.190
most appropriate. Yeah. And when I made a shirt,

00:38:52.389 --> 00:38:55.570
that's what I used. Yeah. I forgot about your

00:38:55.570 --> 00:38:59.389
shirt. I know. I saw it in the bottom of my drawer

00:38:59.389 --> 00:39:01.230
yesterday. I was like, oh, I've got to wear that.

00:39:01.750 --> 00:39:04.469
Yeah. I thought it was appropriate. Golf season's

00:39:04.469 --> 00:39:07.929
coming up. The Masters is coming. When's the

00:39:07.929 --> 00:39:12.369
Masters? April, I believe. And so I kind of did

00:39:12.369 --> 00:39:14.309
some research and thought maybe let's just cover

00:39:14.309 --> 00:39:17.030
one of these for now. Yeah, very good. I enjoyed

00:39:17.030 --> 00:39:20.059
that. Beautiful spot. If they want to sponsor

00:39:20.059 --> 00:39:22.539
us to go visit, that'd be great. That'd be spectacular.

00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:24.400
We can try out the course and let you know how

00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:28.059
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