The Rocky Side of Isla San Francisco

March 2, 2023
Our anchorage turned out to be very well protected from the strong winds. Being anchored fairly close to the beach we had almost no fetch, which meant almost no wave action, but also the shape of the land sent the strongest of the wind elsewhere, and we only saw just up to 25 knots and that was only for a short period.  It was a lovely place to ride out the strong winds. 
With such light winds in the anchorage we were easily able to launch our tender and go ashore to enjoy the days. 
Walking across the low-lying part of the land we got to the other side of the island where the full force of the wind was hitting, and we enjoyed a stormy beach walk. 
The colours of the rocks were quite interesting, some were very red, while others were very green, and some rocks were a mix of many coloured rocks. 
It was quite pretty. 
Walking along the mainly rocky shoreline we saw the dead skeletons of some very pretty Rock crabs. 
We didn’t get to see any that were living, perhaps the tide was too high at the time, but they sure were pretty.   
We also saw many fish skeletons and some of pelicans as well. 
One of the fish skeletons that we saw was one that we had never seen before, and it was quite unusual.  Unfortunately I did not take a picture of it, but it had a tiny mouth with large lips at the end of a long, skinny snout, with the eye back from the snout.  When we looked it up in our fish book we were easily able to identify it down to one of two types of fish, a Chinese Trumpetfish or Reef Cornetfish.  It was quite a curious looking skeleton and perhaps one day we will see some that are alive while we are snorkelling.



 

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  1. Carol PApril 14, 2023 at 12:07 PM

    Beautiful seclusion.

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  2. Jan BellamyApril 14, 2023 at 4:14 PM

    Great photos and I don't know if you had the whole area to yourselves but it was amazing to see no other people. As Carol P says, Beautiful seclusion!

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