To Santa Rosalia

Tags: Bahia Santo Domingo, Mexico, Punta Chivata, Santa Rosalia, sailing

Date: April 30, 2025

Continuing north, we stopped at Bahia Santo Domingo, right at the entrance to Bahia Concepcion. We had been there before and gone for a short hike but this time we decided to go all the way to a beach on the other side. On the way we saw bushes with lovely flowers:

Also, very large cacti:

The trail we were following looks like old, dried-up river beds and apparently they are used as roads:

Finally, we reached to coast:

A red (and dead) crab with a colorful carapace:

This is probably a trap built by a spider. The spider sits down the web funnel and waits for something tasty to crawl along:

It was quite a flat hike but here is the view from the highest point:

These cacti had recently been in bloom but now all the flowers were wilted:

We continued onwards to Punta Chivata, that has the most amazing beach, with heaps of shells:

Félicie spent quite some time the looking for treasures:

At Punta Chivata we also went for a hike across the point to a beach on the other side:

This beach did not have any complete shells but was covered in small rounded smooth rocks and shell pieces:

Onwards again, to the town of Santa Rosalia. Here, Amanda is docked at the diesel dock in the marina. They were out of diesel so we could moor the boat there during our stay in Santa Rosalia.

On the way north Bjarne had spent time sewing a new bimini (the fabric that covers the cockpit, so we can sit in the shade). He also made a new cover for the mainsail that is a lot smaller and more streamlined that the old green one we had previously:

The new mainsail cover completed the transition from green fabric on the edges of the sails as well as on the bimini and mainsail cover to a lighter color that tends to stay cooler under the glare of the sun. Here is the new bimini with new sides seen from the inside:

Every evening a bit before sunset a whole fleet of small fishing boats would launch and zoom out of the harbor to go squid fishing a little way outside town. Squid fishing is done by using light to attract the squid, so the whole bay would be lit up by small lights. Here is one of the fishermen going past: