Sunday, April 11, 2010

Caleta Partida – March 30 – April 1, 2010

Our first stop in the Sea was at an island called Espiritu Santo and the location was Caleta Partida. It is a beautiful cove with crystal clear water. The entire island is a nature preserve.


We were there for the full moon which I was able to capture.
We went ashore after spending a night with almost no swell. We tried to find the trailhead – which was clearly marked but there did not appear to be any “clear” trail. We met some other hikers who had tried for over two hours to find a trail with no luck. So instead we just had fun chasing the fiddler crabs back into their holes. We also took our dinghy through a narrow islet that separates the north and south sides of the island. At one point they were connected but one side of the volcanic crater that created this island collaped in creating this opening between the two parts of the island.  Traveling through this inlet is very sporty as it was close to low tide and with the four of us in our dinghy there was not much between us and the sand. We spent two nights here before heading north to Isla San Francisco – The HOOK.
Sabbatical at anchor

Ryan on shore looking for crabs

Ah, the trailhead

Okay, where does it start?

One of the locals
A fiddler crab
A fiddler crab up close

A big piece of driftwood
Kelly heading back to the dinghy which you can see in the upper left of the picture.  All of the bumps you see on the shore behind her in the lower left corner are fiddler crabs that have come back out after she passed.

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