The road to gonzaga bay - A Fascination for Fish: Adventures of an Underwater Pioneer - page 42

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THE ROAD TO GONZAGA BAY
I FIRST MET DAVID ANDERSON at a Marine Aquarium Society meeting
in Los Angeles. Dave and his wife, Carolyn, ran an aquarium supply
business out of their home in southern California. They had tanks of
freshwater fishes and plants throughout their house, garage, and back-
yard and were breeding fishes that they then delivered to pet shops
throughout the area.
Dave told me he wanted to begin handling marine fishes as well as
freshwater species, and with that in mind he'd made a reconnaissance
trip down to the northern end of the Gulf of California. He had a 1957
rear-engine Chevrolet Corvair and had driven it to a place called San
Luis Gonzaga, a hundred miles past the end of the paved road at San
Felipe. Since Dave was not a scuba diver, he asked if I would be in-
terested in going with him on his next trip to see if there might be
some fishes suitable to sell. It seemed like an exciting adventure; I said
I'd do it.
I packed my dive gear, two full scuba tanks, and my collecting hand
net, while Dave took care of the camping gear, fish-shipping boxes,
bags, and oxygen, on the chance we caught fish we wanted to bring
back. He also took a variety of tools in case we ran into car trouble
miles from civilization. Leaving L.A. early one morning, we crossed