Exploring Bahia San Carlos

March 13, 2023 
We remained anchored in the area of Bahia San Carlos for two days, which gave us some time to explore the shoreline, the bay, and the town. 
The shoreline was beautiful and it reminded us of somewhere in the Mediterranean with the steep, rocky cliffs and large colourful houses. 
It was fun to putter along the shoreline in Kiki and look at all of the different mansions. 
Some of them had boat garages built into the rock cliff down at water level with large metal doors,
others looked like they were sitting dangerously on an overhang, but all of them were well kept and painted with bright and differing colours which made it all very pretty. 
When we went to check out one of the islands in the bay, we found that it was populated with pelicans that appeared to be preparing to nest. 
We saw pelicans gathering up seaweed in their beaks, others flying with large sticks, and many of them sitting on already-formed mounds of land ashore.  There were also large heron-type birds that appeared to be buildings nests in the Ys formed by the branches of large cacti.  It was very cool to see, and I really wished that I had had my large camera along with us that day so as to be able to get some good pictures.  We kept our distance so as not to disturb them. 
The town itself of Bahia San Carlos seemed nice.  We docked our dinghy at the dinghy dock of the marina and paid for the day.  We were surprised by how much more expensive it was than the use of the dinghy dock in La Paz had been.  Walking through town, and also at the store buying some groceries, we were quite surprised by the fact that everyone seemed to speak very good English.  Even when we spoke Spanish to the staff, we were answered in English.  It was clearly a tourist town. 


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