Gooooaaaallll!!!: A Baja Victory

SD: Well on the north side of the marina, there was like a wedge left breaking off it. It could be an awesome boogie board or bodyboard spot.

But it's eroding the beach off it, creating a big ripple effect. And the waves were breaking over the marina -- and it was only like 3-4 feet, it certainly wasn't the biggest swell of the year. Then on the other side at the entrance of the marina, there was a little right breaking off it -- not surfable -- but it was basically creating a giant rip next to the marina that was depositing sand next to and inside of the marina.

Meanwhile they were trying to dredge it while you can watch the brown water just bringing silt right inside.

I asked one of the fishermen turned construction workers there about it and he said, "aye, mucho problemos."

Joel doesn't know much about coastal processes there but it was like a 101 on coastal geomorphology -- how does erosion work? And he could see it. Then you also had not only the problems at the marina, but the marina was eroding the beach in front of the town.

On Wednesday morning, the WSJ article comes out and it also comes out in Spanish in the New York Time of Mexico, La Reforma. They have a WSJ Las Americas and they reprinted the article in their financial page. It's the page all the investors read in Mexico. So this is something that I know went right to president Fox's desk.

So Wednesday morning, we went on the highest rated radio news talk show in Mexico the day the article came out. So I can guarantee you that Fonatour at this point -- the Mexican tourism board -- they're not happy. They are not having a good day. In fact, Fox has probably called them and asked "what the hell is going on?"

This guy is stoked too.

We're in the middle of this show, and we have a guy with us who runs an eco-tourism company in San Ignacio Lagoon. And you know, his whole argument was, look, our whole thing on the show was, it's not that we don't want the project, we want you to do it well, and we don't think that Marinas in the surf zone is a good idea. So in the middle of the show, the host, Pedro Feriz, who is a huge personality in Mexico says, "ah, we have John McCarthy, the head of Fonatour on the phone, let's bring him in."

Then we basically get into a debate with a cabinet level minister on a national talk show in Mexico. He's not a happy camper, but the good thing about it is, we came off very positive. As a foreigner, you don't want to come on Mexican radio saying "we're against development," we're for development we just don't want you guys to leave this string of white elephants along the coast. You have this model at Rosalita and it's not working so don't do anymore.

John McCarthy already says, "look we already have 14 marinas existing as part of the Escalera Nautica. We're going to build 13 more. Five of those 13 will be what he calls "floating marinas." That's the first time we heard of it. So we were like, well, great, what does he mean by that?

That night we go on another radio show that goes all over the country. And we get there and there are four people from Fonatour there, including the head of the Escalera Nautica project and the undersecretary of the environment.