The Beach / Peace cam aka La Manzanilla live started August 2014, back when streaming live was not as cut and dry as it is today. It took a lot of learning, trial and error and the help of Mike Barbie, Deano, Tim and Mark bringing parts to get it up and keep it going. Ans a huge thank you to EarchCam for the service. It was born out of a strong desire to share the life I am living on the beach.
700,000 of those hits came during hurricane Patricia. I had the cam hooked up to the battery of my car so I could keep streaming after they shut the power off.
At one point the wind blew the cam crooked, I went out to fix it and after that the phone started ringing off the hook with calls and emails from people all over the world asking me why I was still there and telling me to get out of here!!! I also got phone calls and emails from television stations asking for permission to use the cam stream and a radio station.
I didn't get the cam streaming again until about a week later but the following days I got emails from all over the world asking how we were here and giving both best wishes and admonishment for my stupidity.
Below are a couple of the News reports that used the beach cam stream. So its actually 700,000 direct views via EarthCam, who knows how many around the world have seen the cam stream indirectly.
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Here is a link to the EarthCam web page it has photos from the cam going all the way back to 2015 https://myearthcam.com/lamanzanilla
Here are a few links from the message board archives about the web cam when it first went live. Going through the site map for 14-03-17 to 14-11-25 and clicking on some of the links brings back some wonderful memories and makes me nostalgic.
Re: Sunset - June 7, 2014
Peace Cam - August 2, 2014
Web Cam - September 2, 2014
web cam - September 10, 2014
storm cam??? - September 12, 2014
Web cam update - September 16, 2014
Life is good.
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