On Sunday morning (November 27), we made one more run to the grocery store in La Paz. The tide was not as high as it had been yesterday, but it was still high.

After we were done shopping, we had a little time to kill before the car was due back, so we went to Playa Tecolote, a popular beach at the northern tip of the peninsula. Like the rest of the peninsula, the scenery from the dive was mostly vacant land, mostly hilly desert with glimpses of the shoreline, including several estuaries.

The beach itself was lined with restaurants.

Behind the restaurants were lines of vendor stalls, most of which were in mobile structures.

From the beach, we could see the southern end of Espiritu Santo. The channel in between was called Canal de San Lorenzo. When the weather is calm, people can anchor their boats here. But with all the whitecaps in the water, it was no surprise that there were no boats here today.

We headed back to Kosmos to drop off our groceries before going back to la Paz to return the car. Here is the view of Playa Pichilingue from the road. We hadn’t realized that the beach where the campers were was only a sand bar and that there was an estuary behind the campsite.

Two of the crew members from Oceananigans, Mike and Malana, had returned last night, and they joined us for our trek to town. The tide was now relatively low, and getting off the dock was a challenge.

After we returned the car, we all went for a late lunch at a restaurant on the malecon called Buzos. After lunch, Mike and Malana went shopping while we walked over to Marina Cortez to try to meet family the with kids. Here is the sun going down behind the marina, taken from the malecon.

We walked the very long dock only to have a marina employee tell us that they left today. Sigh. We hailed an Uber from the front of Marina Cortez, and were relieved when our ride was eventually picked up. Here are the last bits of daylight under the crescent moon.

Sadly, the light on our dinghy has disappeared, so we had to dinghy back in the dark.