The old rusted steel panel fence is the original US boarder fence. The newer steel spike fence is approx. 20' inside the US and the boarder patrol is the only people that are authorized to go between the two. I've seen the documentaries on TV to know that they have motion detectors, cameras and even sound sensors in that "no man's land".
another Boarder Patrol sitting in his jeep, watching down on the beach where the boarder fence runs into the ocean
cameras, motione detectors, sound senosors, transmitters....
The b-b-q and pic nic area up on the mesa right next to the boarder....the beach down below
Notice the weird antenna just over the wall from the jeep....
On the Mexico side, they can walk right up to the fence. Nobody trying to break in to that country....just walk across.
and now we have the low encome housing....
A lady (on the left, on the other side of the fence) taking a picture of a guy standing right up against the fence (on the right, on the other side). I couldn't help but wonder what's going through their heads....what's the conversation?
It's been on the news the past couple of days.....surfs up...starting at 2:30 p.m. this afternoon lasting through 6:00 p.m. tomorrow night. All kinds of warnings etc on the radio and TV. I was on the beach approx. half hour-45 min. and in that short time I saw the waves go from barely a wave to about ten feet high. Here they are at about 3' high...and growing.....
(see San Diego in the background)
I was really surprised how quickly they got so much bigger and a beautiful day. Glad I was there to see it first hand....
The first time I've been on a beach where sand dollars and all kinds of sea shells that are whole and not busted up.....laying every where.....
they almost look man made....
and the bottom side....
and hundreds of these little birds. They run everywhere, chasing the waves back out, picking in the fresh wet sand for something, then run back up as the next wave comes in.
I keep heading north, away from the boarder in the distance. It was quite a hike....especially in the sand.
It was a great way to spend the turkey day!