Anchoring at Bahia de Los Muertos

November 6, 2022  
By the morning of November 6th we had rounded the second corner of the Baja peninsula and were headed up towards the Sea of Cortez.  With the morning sun brightly shining, looking down into the beautiful, blue water was like watching the most spectacular ocean display of the aurora borealis.   
By 12:45 we were anchored in Bahia de Los Muertos, and as we anchored in 25’ of water I watched as the anchor landed on the sandy bottom. 
I then watched as our chain laid out across the sand.  The water was crystal clear and sparkling blue.
After anchoring, our first priority was to go swimming, and we immediately changed into our bathing suits, grabbed our masks and fins, and jumped in.  Wow! 
The water felt like bath water.  We happily swam around pointing everything out to each other. 
The Red Witch's keel, rudder, and swim ladder.
 
The puffer fish, now the second type that we have seen in Mexico, were the cutest. 
They swam around on the ocean floor and seemed to like the areas where our anchor chain was disturbing the sand, but they were also very curious and would swim about half way up towards us with their cute little faces checking us out. 
Bahia de Los Muertos was a beautiful place to relax for the afternoon.  We were in swimming multiple times and then relaxed in the cockpit enjoying our picturesque surroundings.  The mountains were much greener than they had been coming down the outer coast of the Baja, the sandy beaches were just as perfectly white, and the water was a spectacular turquoise.  It definitely felt like the tropics.   
As we relaxed, we repeatedly got quite the feeding-frenzy show.  An area of the water would suddenly erupt with little, maybe 3 or 4” long fish, rocketing themselves out of the water.  It looked as though they were being herded from below, as they would all be jumping in the same direction, fleeing their pursuers.  A couple of times we saw larger fish, maybe 10-12” long jumping behind them, and once, Jason got to see a brightly coloured Mahi Mahi in pursuit of the smaller fish.  As soon as the water would explode with activity the continually circling frigate birds would swoop down and take passes, picking little fish off of the surface.  Most of these little feeding frenzies were short lived, but they happened repeatedly throughout the bay through the afternoon and evening, and even after the sun had set we could hear the commotion in the water. 
 
 

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  1. Jan BellamyDecember 11, 2022 at 1:06 PM

    "sandy beaches were just as perfectly white, and the water was a spectacular turquoise." –Love the description.

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  2. ColleenDecember 11, 2022 at 2:31 PM

    Your description is so beautifully written. I loved snorkelling in my younger years Costa Rica and Hawaii.

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