Abandoned City on an Island | Houses Built of Coral | Destination Adventure
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2024
- I have seen many amazing things through my travels, but it is rare to see something as unique as this. This abandoned salt mine sits on an island six miles off the coast of Baja Mexico, and has the remains of houses and buildings constructed not of rock or brick, but of coral. In the desert, where traditional building supplies are non existent, locals made do with what they had. In this case, it was coral. My visit to Isla Carmen, brought with it a plethora of unique things to see and experience. The salt flats from the old mine have been left untouched for decades, and that alone was a sight I done even have words to describe. In the ghost town, there are remains of many different buildings. The old bank is still standing, some homes and much of the milling building as well. In the bay in front of the town, there are two shipwrecks and the remains of the old light house as well.
After my visit to the abandoned town, I slowly made my way back along the outside of the island, making sure to stop at each interesting thing I could see along the way. The beaches here are littered with history and mystery, and I only wish I had more time to explore them.
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Ok, the salt mines at Isla Del Carmen were discovered by the Jesuit in 1698. The north end of the island has a bay named Bahia Salinas (Salt Bay) where the mines were located. In 1875 two brothers from La Paz gained control of the mine. There was a rail line of 2000 feet from the mine to a pier where the salt was loaded onto ships. At its peak, this was the largest salt mine in the world. It closed in 1984. Competition from the salt mine at Guerrero Negro on the west coast of Baja were said to cause its demise, the salt there already being on the Pacific. Much of the salt was exported to Japan.. So, evidently these are salt deposits rather than evaporation pits like those right at the mouth of the Colorado River.
thank u for the information. how cool!!
The salt got there due to natural evaporation millennia ago
Gotta be one of the best TH-camrs out there in the way of content, personality and production. @Destination Adventure awesome man, keep it up. Mega envious bro 😎
Thank you very much.
What a fantastic episode. I felt like I was right there with you. That’s your gift.. and thanks!
Now in my early 60s. I spent some time in Mexico, traveling through central Mexico and all around the coastal states. My favorite place in the world. Thanks again Dustin for the memories.
You’re very welcome. Thank you for enjoying:)
@@Destination_Adventure When I was in my 20s to early 30's my mom was a travel Agent, and I spent a great many winter in Mexico on Fam Trips. I wish now, I have gone to the Baja instead, . The only non-tourist location I went to then (in the late 90's) was a trip to the Yucatan, to meet a woman I had met on a BBS, she was on the boarder between Mexico and Belize// Muchas Gracia,, mi amiga Your adventures have for me brought back some great memories of Mexico.
Truly a unique and thrilling adventure. Would love to know more about the odd buildings, dead sheep, and water tanks and pumps. Intriguing and gets the blood pumping with excitement!
WOW, I had to backup the video quite a few times to get a second look at things! I think I'll bookmark this one so I can watch it again later, I had a stroke (brain aneurism) a couple of years ago so the video will be new again to me. This video had a lot of surprises. Thanks for taking us along.
I'm from County Durham in the UK.
My dream used to be to buy an RV and criss cross the Americas, self sufficient with no intentions of going back.
I gave up on that dream years ago when I discovered DestinationAdventure.
I love the 'I should stop tasting things' part, lol
I have to say you are like my favorite person ever! You make every day brighter for me!❤❤
Amazing as always, I LOVE your adventures and you're my favourite channel, thanks for all the hard work. Much appreciated ❤️
Thank you for enjoying the show and for the nice compliment:)
Enjoy your music in your videos. You are amazing! Venture on !
I first drove the Baja highway in 1975 and several times since then, you’re capturing some of the remoteness that brings back amazing memories, keep up your great storytelling
You have certainly tanned. Gramma Candy Love the salt flats.
I started watching you about a year and a half ago and look forward to your videos. I just love the fact that you go to all those out of the way places and that you stop on the side of the road when you see something interesting. Thanks for taking us on your adventures 💛
You inspire my soul to be brave and find wonder in experience. Thank you ❤
Every adventure you produce is enjoyable, ty
Great backn driver✌
I dont know how I missed this one.. BUT Muchas gracia, mi Amiga.
What a weird place, spooky as hell.....and just strange as heck.... Alfred Hitchcock for sure!!
Another great adventure keep the content rolling
TH-cam's mantra is "content is king". This channel is a great argument against that. This is some of the best content on TH-cam, bar none! In fact the whole channel is great content and imo every video should have millions of views the first week. C'mon TH-cam, put this man's videos in front of folks! Keep doing what you're doing Dustin!
Thank you, and I sure hope it gets traction soon. I’m not sure I can keep doing this forever for 10,000 views. I’m thankful for every one of those views, but it doesn’t pay the bills. Help me out here TH-cam lol
This was very exciting. The abandoned island looked so amazing. You do excellent work showing us these forgotten places. Thank you !
I did a 10 day kayak trip out there, fisherman and boaters use tanks like those for water, otherwise they have to carry too much water along. Also, pop your boat, get stranded, and water is everywhere but not a drop to drink.
Thank You Laddie, looking forward to Your next adventure.. Makes my day when I see You've posted another video showing a new place You're visiting.. Amazing places like the abandoned salt mine and all the other great places You've been to.. LvYa...
You are the man, nice backing job
I probably would not take my RV down that road 😂
Massive pod of dolphins catching supper.
Wow, what a great adventure. Thank you so much for sharing. Digging the videos. Safe travels.
I bought a bus yesterday Dustin. My journey into semi-retirement and Bus Life begins! :D
Frick yes.
Fantastic!! Thank you for sharing your explore.💯♥️
Oh my gosh, Dustin. There are just so many unanswered questions.. I sincerely respect your guts and your stamina. And, please remember that we want you to be safe at the same time. I sound like a mom, because I am one. Take care and enjoy!! 💕🌸✌️
It's amazing how you find all these cool places to explore!
As usual, the music is the cherry on the top of your adventure cake... Thanks again for all the miles put in!!!
Sweet video cracked me up with the sheep!
"I should probably stop tasting things.. " LOL.. I think this sums up many of our adventures with you!!
So many funny things in this one!! My personal favourite is "I have to stop tasting stuff!" LOL Love this one. Thanks for sharing Dustin
Dustin, love this episode. You often do things that push my comfort zone and sometimes, bloody scares me … but tasting an unknown spooked me! Keep pushing my comfort zones. 💜
Wonderful !! I loved this one. Kind of gave me some feelings about Aliens being there. Where did the people go? Hope you go back and show us the shipwrecks. Hope you catch your yellow tail too.
You are so talented and interesting to watch. Keep it up.
THANK YOU - UK
Absolutely love the content! Super awesome music as well! Love to see some Colorado!
best one yet
Just beautiful!!!!
What an adventure! Love all the mystery!
thanks again for bringing us along. Amazing adventures!!
I love this 1❤❤❤
GREAT as always. Enjoy brilliant travels with you. Thank you for sharing yourself & your priceless videos. God Bless
This was absolutely fascinating! Thank you for the explore!
Absolutely love this channel!
Awesome thank you man 🤘👍
Just discovered your channel and I can’t stop bingeing. Very inspiring to say the least.
Another great show . keep em coming.
Thank you, Dustin. I really enjoyed this video. You take me to places I can't go. Look forward to the next adventure.
What a fun channel. 👍
What a truly interesting place!
Luv all your adventures keep up the good stories
Another great one Dustin. I love getting to come along on your adventures through your videos! I look forward to your next adventure
Incredible find, and awesome video.
Love it
Your videos are getting better and better. Thank you so very much !
One of your best sir. Well done.
That was amazing
Isla Del Carmen! Ive been there too.. You are having a trip of a lifetime! What a beautiful Destination Adventure. Dustin, great video!!! Nice camp spot too.
Beautiful place.
Oh yes, we enjoyed it very much, wish I was there, thanks.
Holy crap Mate! Dats a nice spot! Keep on rolling Dustin and always stay gold my friend 🤠
Hey Dustin. Mi esposa y yo, hemos visitado 25 estados de Mexico. Es un pais bellissimo. (Sorry dude, I like to throw a little Spanish into my comments. Our first exposure to Mexico was a motorhome trip down the Baja in 2011. We spoke no Spanish. Now we are both fluent. We visited 25 states over 9 months of travel in a 3 year period. 3 months each year.
We love following your adventures and hope to meet you someday. We live in the Okanagan now. We pull a teardrop with a Tesla and plan on exploring more of the Cariboo and kootenays next year. We may make it to puerta penasco this Christmas with our combo.
Stay safe on the road Dustin.
Cuidate amigo.
This is such a great comment. I hope to be fluent one day. Or even comfortably conversational would be nice lol.
Great video, that's sad about the Bighorn sheep though, makes you wonder
Awesome video thanks so much.
Great video Dustin,what a beautiful interesting place..thanks for sharing and stay safe.
Cool finds!
Very cool stuff! I enjoyed your adventure!
Great video. Thanks 👍
Trigger fish and Spade fish are the most unapreciated fish for frying.😊
That was just crazy cool! Looking forward to the next adventure. Howdy from South Jersey
Good stuff Dustin, keep getting after it bud🤙
Got to give it to ya...you know how to adventure.
Love your videos super interesting thanks.
You did GOOD on that camping spot.
That dried out ram skeleton was bad ass!!
What a cool camping spot! Love this adventure. You forgot one thing! And that would be me! Have fun stay safe. Till next time....
a beautiful place
Another amazing video. Your content your drone work your editing is great stuff. Looks like you're having another Amazing Adventure thank you for taking me along I look forward to your next video stay safe
I LOVED this one! Your videos are perfect! Usually when I see anything above 15min they've been boring but not your videos fly by, sometimes waaay too quickly! I get lost in the adventures with you and I find myself wondering how things got there or why they're there! Keep up the awesomeness!
Awesome video as always 💪😊👍
Hey Dustin.
Epic little adventure. I'd love to explore that old town. The history! I always try and imagine what it would have been like in the hey day! So cool.
Good job on the "Trigger Fish." Here in Tasmania, we call them "Leather Jackets" due to their unique, shark-like skin. When cleaning, it is very easy to just peel off. The other name, not so commonly used nowadays, but was popular In the old days (my Nanna Brown always called them this), was "Butterfish". Due to the soft texture and taste of the fish. So yummy!
Thanks again for another great adventure, definitely my favourite channel.
Rob,Tasmania, Australia 🇦🇺
Cheers Rob. It’s tough to learn how to fillet those triggerfish, but this was my first fillet job that was almost perfect. Getting there.
@Destination Adventure Aren't they a badass little fish!? If it wasn't a "Trigger Fish"...it'd be a "Very strong mouthed buck toothed shell biter!".
As a child, one of my early fishing life lessons when I first discovered this fish, was "Don't touch Spike...and Definitely, don't put finger in mouth.." . I was quite young. Still have scar.
Keep up the adventures.
Rob
@Destination Adventure don't fillet! Skin, behead....Eggwash, flour, then lightly fry... = Butterfish!
Hey, hey Dustin, congrats for topping 100k. Ur show is still interesting and fun to watch, so keep'r going. A well deserved thumbs up.
Thank you.
rattlesnake beach is such a cool camping spot. there's bighorn sheep hunting on the north end of isla carmen so you'll want to check in with the caretaker at the town before wandering too far from the beach. there's a great hike across the island west to east.
Your filming and editing are very good.
Awesome Back me uper your learning top notch!
Such a cool place! I wonder if the curved wall was the back wall of a church alter? I believe this is common in Catholic church architecture.
Great video man!
Darn! I was hoping you would check out the lighthouse 🤣
Those sand dollars that you mentioned that were stuck way up there and that little cave are up there because of prehistoric inflation LOL!!!
I'm surprised you didn't ride one of the bikes out that long road to the salt flat.... much quicker! :)
🌴🇺🇲👍🏼😎👍🏼🇺🇲🌵 From E to W and everything I see your stuff is RAD 🤙🏼
Very amazing salt playa and abandoned structures, you sir are brave going through that!!! Thank you so much Destination Adventure for the video, you inspire us viewers to "live" a little more!!!😉 Love your videos sir!!!
Thank you :)
A spooky place!
I think you might be just a little bit crazy! But we get to (safely) benefit from your crazy courage! Thank you for the adventure!
I lived in Bermuda for 3 years, homes there were constructed of coral.