Sunrise on Wednesday November 2. As the sun rose, a massive number of birds flew over to the rocks islets.

Christi was pleased to report that she was feeling better. The day of rest did the trick! After we finished our morning chores/school, we went snorkeling along the rocks directly behind the boat. It’s always nice when we are close enough to good snorkeling/diving that we can go straight off of Kosmos. The water had cooled down; Christi wound up putting on a shortie wetsuit.

The snorkeling was pretty good. The visibility was good, though not great. There were some nice coral formations. There were a lot of fish, though they tended to be concentrated in a couple of spots. Unfortunately, snorkeling was short lived. Keith got stung by a jellyfish, so we called it quits.

Instead of going straight back to Kosmos, we got in the dinghy and went over to the sandbars between each of the rocks. Keith was grouchy, though, and we couldn’t coax him to play on the shore. We got some pretty photos, though! This is the little sandbar, the one between the two rocks that is due north of Kosmos. Christi took both shots while standing on the sand bar. Eric is on the north side, the selfie Christi took is looking back into the anchorage.

In this shot, you can see the big sand bar at the northeast corner of the bay.

The big sand bar had a small house on it. There was also someone camping near the house. The first photo was looking north. The second photo was looking southeast. The third photo was the view of the Sea of Cortez from the sand bar.

After lunch, we made a trip into the village. This time, we asked the lady at the restaurant where the store was. She directed us to walk down the dirt road right next to her restaurant. The store was small, but had all the essentials.

We continued on the road. There was a church.

There was a sign posted along the road.

The road eventually looped back around to the beach. In the distance, we saw what looked to be a school. We could see a few other buildings in the distance, too. Each of the buildings were spread apart, so the village didn’t feel cohesive… at least from the little we saw. There were several forks in the road that we could have turned off on to do more exploring inland, but with Keith grouchy and Christi still not feeling her best, we didn’t go any further inland.

Back on the beach, we could see there were more buildings at the far southwest corner of the beach, so we hopped in the dinghy and cruised over there to check them out. We knew that there was a second restaurant in town, and we were hoping it was there. One of the buildings looked like was a home, but maybe could have been a restaurant. The other looked like it may only be a covered palapa and not a full building, but it was shadowed, so we weren’t sure. There were several fishing pangas.

We continued on to check out the east side of Bahia Agua Verde, which offers good protection in south winds but no protection from the direction the winds were coming from currently. There is a big rock that offers some protection from the east. For perspective on distance, this photo was taken from the same spot the above photo was taken.

Here’s another view of the cove. This photo was taken close to the rock. The cove goes further back than we would have guessed.

Even though the beach looked inviting, we didn’t stop and explore. There were some cool rock formations along the northwest corner of the anchorage that looked promising for snorkeling.

Here is the sunset.