Isla San Jose

We enjoyed a quite and beautiful morning waiting for the wind to come up.  We didn’t have to wait very long.  Soon a sweet, light braze filled in from the north.

Once the boat was secured for sailing we hove anchor and quietly ghosted out the harbor in just 4 kts  of wind.  Soon that grew to winds in the mid teens toughing 20 kts at times.  We put one reef in our main sail and tacked our way up the San Jose Channel alternating our view from the Sierrade la Glganta mountains on the Baja side and the rugged hills and coast of San Jose Island on the other.    



Finally making our way to Mangle Solo anchorage at the north end of San Jose, 26 nm and 4 1/2 hours after out start.  We were both grateful for the pleasure of a beautiful day of sailing in perfect conditions.  



We anchored in 29’ of water just 100 yds off the beach near a rustic a fishing shack.  

Bev made us a late lunch that tasted all the better as we were both pretty hungry at that point.  Once the boat was secured and were were fed we SUPed to shore to take a walk and look around.  The fishing shack was interesting.  



It was tidy in it’s own way with evidence of the last pot of coffee made in the crude, wood fired stove.  

I couldn’t tell if this skeleton was just find brought home for decoration or something left over from a past meal.  Either way it’s beautiful like the rest of this place. 

I found a deer antler out it the desert behind the shack that I brought back to Malo for decoration.  It made me wonder how something like a dear could survive in such a dry place.  There must be water somewhere out there.  Water aside, bones do seem to be a pretty good representation of timeless quality this place and the dryness… 

I’m still blown away by the desert being right next to the sea.  



We walked the beach before SUPing back to Malo.  On the way back to Malo we swung by another cruising boat and met the crew who had been sailing Sea for many years.   Nice couple!