With an early morning start, we headed out of Concepcion Bay to San Juanico, one of our favorite anchorages. It's about 55 miles of sailing so you start early and arrive late. We got the hook set about 5:00 pm and quickly dropped the kayak over the side to do some clamming.
Chocolate clams are the best! Bill showed Diane how to find them and in short order, Diane was pulling them up right and left while Bill was lucky to find one or two. Diane's the best dive/snorkle partner there is, she doesn't miss much! Needless to say, clams were on the menu for that evening's meal.Early the next morning we went for a run through the hills around San Juanico. This is an out-of-the-way place so there's not much but coyotes, etc. Well sort of. Someone got the notion to build a couple of very nice homes up on a hill overlooking the bay. How they got the supplies to that location amazes me.
From there, we sailed the 30 miles or so to the east side of Isla Carmen.
Most people go to the
west side, which is directly across and only 7 miles away from Loreto. We chose to go to the back side where there's an abandoned salt mining town and a spectacular bay. We had to anchor about 3/4th of a mile out to keep 12' feet below us and take a major dinghy ride to shore. We met the "guard" of the island who gave us permission to explore and run. Very nice.The water was amazingly clear. The sand dollar in this picture is in about
16' of water and the picture doesn't do justice to how clear the water was. We'll go back.
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