Continued from yesterday... At around 1400 (2:00 pm) we lifted anchor and headed south. Since we’d mentioned that the cliffs were geologically interesting, we wanted to put in a shot of the cliff that separates the middle cove from the southern cove.

Our destination was Caleta Partida, which was the space between Isla Partida and Isla Espiritu Santo. It was a quick 45-minute ride south. 

In a previous post, we’d mentioned that Isla Partida and Isla Espiritu Santo were so close to that they almost touched. That’s because they were once part of the same volcano; the space that divided them was the volcano’s crater. As we pulled in, the anchorage looked similar to Puerto Don Juan or Puerto Escondido; a large round anchorage surrounded mostly by hills, with a low sand bar on one side. It looked like one island; there was no visible space between the sandbars of the two islands. There was a small cluster of buildings on the sandbar.

Looking north from where we’d anchored

Looking east at the sandbar

The cliff to the right extends all the way across the south end of the anchorage. Looking west to the mouth of the anchorage.

Knowing that it was a caldera, Santorini, Greece (another caldera that we’ve visited in the past) was on our mind. Now that we were thinking about it, the strange rock formations on Isla Partida and Isla Espiritu Santo did remind us of the cliffs of Santorini.

When we pulled in, the family was pulling the kids on their wakeboard with the dinghy. As soon as we dropped anchor, they picked up Keith to join in. Keith had a blast.

After they were done with the wakeboard pulls, the boys came over to play for a while. The parents told us that not long after they’d arrived this morning, the park ranger came by to check their park passes and told them the dog was not allowed on Espiritu Santo, either.

Some people who were apparently employed by the national park came by and offered to take our trash. We’ve never seen that before here in Mexico. We had assumed there was a fee and had not given them our trash since our bag was only half-full. Later, we found out that the trash service was free.

While Christi was watching the sunset, she saw a sea lion.

Here is the 3/4 full moon over the sandbar as the sun was setting.

Sunset