Foreword This started out, simply enough, to be a short history of Club Deportivo, the sportsmen's (and women's) club at Bahia Kino, Sonora, Mexico. It was to be a publication which new members, especially, might find interesting and helpful. It seemed like a good idea to do it while most of the Club's founders were still around to add their reminiscences to the bare facts we could obtain from records. It was those reminiscences that changed things! As those founders told about their first visits to Kino Bay, why and how they came, and what they found here, we began to realize that we couldn't tell the story of Club Deportivo without including some of the colorful history of the Kino Bay area. And that could not be obtained just by reading Club minutes. So, we got much of our information from people, not from books, and thus make no gilt-edged claim for scholarly accuracy. But we did talk to lots of people -- Mexicans whose families were early resi- dents, and Americans, some of whom came to these beaches on the Sea of Cortez for the first time a surprising number of years ago. We checked one account against another and tried to put them in the set- ting of information from century-old journals of explorers and scientists who first visited this region that long ago looking for pearls and gold (they found neither) or to study the people, the wildlife, the land and the ocean. The Club is here, of course, because of its members. Its mem- bers are here because Kino Bay is such a great place. The climate, the fishing and other recreation, the scenery, the friendly local people, the area's interesting historyall contribute to the hold Kino Bay has on Us. Furthermore, Club Deportivo, with its multi-national member- ship and its community activities, is now a recognized and creditable part of Kino Bay life. -The Authors