We departed Bahia Los Angeles
and stopped off at a beach on the northern side of the island which had been
touted as a good place to find shells, which turned out to be a bit false.
Maybe once but as we know if it’s in the guide book everybody knows. Either way
we had a nice walk and a cooling swim before we set off for Los Gatos our next
overnight anchorage. Again the wind was favourable and we sailed up through the
channel between the Baja and the island of San Jose. We went into San Everisto
but it did not look like a place we wanted to stay at – we wanted isolation so
we carried on towards Los Gatos. The winds lightened and we dropped the sails
as our boat speed fell below 2 knots – our new low speed limit for motoring –
as luck would have it the winds picked up once we came out of the channel and
we had 10 knots on the beam and were soon making over 7 knots through the water
in flat waters. Marvelous!
There was one other boat in
the northern anchorage of Los Gatos so we opted for seclusion and took the
southern anchorage and went ashore to explore one of the beaches.
The next day we took George to
another beach and snorkeled on the large reef seeing a good selection of
tropical fish. Later Katya explored on one of the other beaches and came back
very excited having found a number of geodes with crystals inside. Katya and I
spent the next few hours scouring the beach for good examples worthy of taking
back to the boat.
In the late afternoon we were
approached by a local fisherman trying to sell us fish and we ended up buying 4
lobsters from him for the bargain price of $15 or £10 which we cooked on the BBQ with garlic butter and
accompanied with a nice salad. Delicious!
Los Gatos is yet another beautiful
anchorage with impressive geological formations: rich coloured sandstones
highlighted at dawn and dusk, high peaked mountains void of vegetation showing
their striated formations – a geologists dream I would imagine.
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