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Hole In The Coast

Posted by Alex, Monday, 11th July 2005

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Update: After much debate in the comments of this post, determined reader Patrick has finally tracked down the truth about this mysterious location! Patrick contacted a friend who lives in Mexico and she pointed him towards this forum thread, where he discovered that this is a place called La Lobera; and our ‘hole in the coast’ is in fact, a collapsed sea cave. There’s some brilliant images of the hole and the surrounding area in the thread, some of which show the structure to be of pretty staggering size.

Many thanks and much kudos to Patrick, as this was driving us nuts! :-D

Anyone know what this strange hole in the coast of Mexico is? Weird.

Hole In The Coast

Thanks to Joey Shabadu

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  1. 36. Nanabobo says:

    You are all fools. It is quite obviously the all-seeing eye of Earth, which was poked out by a stick.

  2. 37. Baja Jimbo says:

    C’mon guys–we gotta figure this out! Does anybody live anywhere near here? Or are there any California pilots who could do a flyby?

    To sum up this post, we know it is not where they filmed Titanic, we think it could be a sea cave unroofed, it might be some sort of resort they are starting to build, a natural phenomenon, or a secret missle silo. All we need is someone to go check it out.

    Any takers? I would but I’m in Maine. Ugh.

  3. 38. Patrick says:

    I KNOW WHAT IT IS!!!!!! It’s a place called La Lobera….Got a hold of a friend down in baja and she directed me to this site…..long story short, it is the collapsed roof of a sea cave. THere are some great ground level shots at this link….very cool beach down below it with sea lions lounging and the structure we see is a restaurant!!! Do I win a prize for being the solver of this greatest of mysteries!?!?!

    http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=10833

  4. 39. Neil says:

    Hey Patrick, I’ve been wondering what this was for a long time now… thanks alot for shedding some light on the mystery!

  5. 40. Baja Jimbo says:

    Patrick! Well-done! Thank you!

    This mystery is solved! Can we send Patrick a T-shirt or something? How about a gift for anyone who solves one of the mysteries?

    :)

  6. 41. damian says:

    when the resolution catches up there is also one of these collapsed sea caves on the north coast of cornwall - trevone - here in england - Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    you won’t know yet as it is too blurry - you’ll just have to believe me…

    we used to find the odd cow down in it from time to time back in the 70’s — ooh what a give away! –

  7. 42. rb says:

    its just a hole which the chinese dug to get to north america. Gosh

  8. 43. some young guy says:

    props

  9. 44. Keith T. says:

    So does anyone know why they flattened the Placemark: mountains to the southeast / Google Earth?

  10. 45. josua says:

    guys…this is not a mystery solved…it’s just una cueva abierta..no tesoro…no movies…no boms…no titanic…it is beautiful mexico…please don’t invade it

  11. 46. Deepblue says:

    hey, the more strange in this place, is not the hole.. the strange is a small zone where are a figure like a women.. i try post the picture.

  12. 47. Helene says:

    If you look at the entire coast in the picture, the hole is clearly the eyeball of an evil zoro type villain.

  13. 48. Pyiush says:

    looks like a distorted face good to see that. it has a proper eye nose mouth and all

  14. 49. Acolyte says:

    One word: Airwolf! :)

  15. 50. Juan Carlos says:

    This hole is a natural hole called La Lobera the hole is like santuary animal of the sea (marine wolf) (sorry for my bad english) if anyone like i have some picture from the hole and may send to you, is not a strange place is a natural place,

  16. 51. mbflys says:

    Hello Everyone… I”ve been there .. I went at a very young age when this tourist attraction was not well known.. it was a well kept secret by the local people (my family lives in San Quintin) .. and I went there last year. It’s not a blowhole.. I even have pictures if anyone is interested … mbflys@yahoo.com… Before we would have to go by 4WD and it would take two hours .. then you’d have to walk over the last two big hills…. but now there is a pretty flat dirt road that one can use to get to with virtually any car .. its about 15 mintues from Mexican Highway 1 (transpeninsular) on an unmarked offramp about 45 minutes past San Quintin. It is a hole that was likely caused by a squirrel (or prairie dog) burrowing int he dirt .. then over a few hundred years the rain made it bigger and bigger and bigger… it does have a cave that goes out to the ocean .. during high tide seals come in to rest and mate…. and NO .. space aliens did not land there and mate with the mexicans for those of you who are Xenophobic.

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