simple answer....no lumber grade trees. Even today lumber is difficult to find and expensive when you do locate it. The lumber department of our local Home Depot has a few warpy 2x4x8's and a few 4x4x8's and a sparse collection of assorted pieces of plywood and osb and that's it!!
As I mentioned in the post right before this one, the French built Santa Rosalia and they didn't like concrete structures. They wanted what they had in France.....homes and structures constructed from wood!!! So they had structural lumber shipped in from Oregon and built a town of wood!! The only one in the Baja and hereto lies Santa Rosalia's second claim to fame.....the town constructed of wood....
This hardware store building is over 100 years old......!
Some of the buildings are a little ramshackle...!!
Local neighborhood restaurant .....
Don'tcha just love that Bougainvillea ....?
Tana in the town square.....
A quiet neighborhood side street......
The fancy neighborhood up on a hill overlooking the town....
Another hilltop swanky-enda.........
The Regional Public Library of Mahatma Gandhi and we presume there are at least 735 of them....! I haven't seen an Indian person since I've been here..??? Go figure!!!
This is the old French Hotel that we stayed at on the return trip back home from our whale watching expedition. It's constructed of, you guessed it, wood!!
We had a cervaza or two or three sitting here overlooking the scenery and the Sea of Cortez.....
View from our room........
Front desk.....incredibly termites are a big problem in Baja and in our home state of Sonora as well. The wood in these structures is oiled every few weeks with a special concoction that wards off the little critters.....that's why the wood is so dark in the interior views..
The lobby oozes Victorian Europe......
Sitting area in dining room for having tea....
Well, that's pretty much our trip to Santa Rosalia. When we meet again I'll take you guys across the Baja Peninsula from the Sea of Cortez on the east to the Pacific Coast on the west and to our final destination San Ignacio and the Laguna San Ignacio which is the home of the mighty Eastern Pacific Gray Whales and their babies for a part of the year......which is now!!!!
You're gonna like the trip...seeya soon...peace to you all my friends
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