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Nice sunrise today

Thanks.... that's really pretty...

It makes a very attractive desktop pic, too ... thank you!

Wooo, thanks for posting that soft & serene shot!

Now Kate'll be plagiarizing your pics for a change!

Gorgeous pic bigwooo. I am curious, which direction does your beachfront face???

Originally Posted by BajaGringo

Gorgeous pic bigwooo. I am curious, which direction does your beachfront face???

The Pacific Ocean!!!!

Originally Posted by longlegsinlapaz

The Pacific Ocean!!!!

OK, so I walked into that one.

I guess I should have been more specific - as the Pacific coastline is not all directly west facing I was wondering if their property was on a bay, cove or peninsula that would give them a different angle towards sunrise...

We face southeast, actually a little more toward the east than south. It's a weird perspective for the west coast. When I aligned my cell phone antenna with the tower in Insurgentes, it faces what appears to be (from our perspective) open ocean. The sun sets behind us over land.

Originally Posted by BigWooo

We face southeast, actually a little more toward the east than south. It's a weird perspective for the west coast. When I aligned my cell phone antenna with the tower in Insurgentes, it faces what appears to be (from our perspective) open ocean.

That's kind of what I figured when I saw the photo - the only sunrise view we get here on our end is the sun coming up from behind the volcanoes...

Anybody else out there like me who benefits from a picture, here's why we have sunrises over water even tho we're on the West coast of the peninsula

And we in central La Paz get sunsets over the water despite being on the East coast of the Peninsula. Takes some getting used to. I can turn left or right on the Malecon at the end of my street and wind up heading North. Go figure!!

Originally Posted by oladulce

Anybody else out there like me who benefits from a picture, here's why we have sunrises over water even tho we're on the West coast of the peninsula

Do you guys get much wind?

Originally Posted by BajaGringo

Do you guys get much wind?

Average nice days are west or southwest at 9-12 mph, with quite a few days like today at 28mph out of the west. West winds are offshore for us.

Your area sounds very similar to ours so a good wind turbine or two (or three) should really help. The wind kept us going the past couple of weeks when there was not a lot of power coming out of our solar panels.

As soon as Chava finishes up with astrobaja's observatory I will put him to work here for a week to help us get the next wind turbine up and running , as well as a couple of other projects...

Originally Posted by BajaGringo

Your area sounds very similar to ours so a good wind turbine or two (or three) should really help. The wind kept us going the past couple of weeks when there was not a lot of power coming out of our solar panels.

As soon as Chava finishes up with astrobaja's observatory I will put him to work here for a week to help us get the next wind turbine up and running , as well as a couple of other projects...

I looked through your posts and can't find what brand wind turbine you decided to use. Which ones are you using and are they noisy enough to bug a neighbor close by? I can mount them on the back of my lot so I wont' hear them, but the neighbors might.

Most of the newer versions today are not noisy at all. Friends and neighbors who come by all comment that they can't even hear mine standing outside less than 30 feet away. In fact I have now seen over 20 different wind turbine installs in the last year and have yet to come across one of those "noisy" turbines I keep reading about online.

I have come to the conclusion that either they are talking about some really large turbine (> 2kW) or the whole thing is an urban myth...