After spending a week in Bahia Concepcion at Playa Santispac and Playa el Coyote, we needed to continue migrating south to San Juanico. We were starting to approach a deadline when we needed to get our guest, Brenden’s Dad Scott, to Loreto to fly out and back to the States.
We left Bahia Concepcion in the morning and were escorted out of the bay by a pod of really large dolphins! We hadn’t a breath of wind, so we motored several hours to get around Punta Pulpita and down into San Juanico.
We’d been to the San Juanico area before, last year when we anchored in the northern anchorage called La Ramada.
We picked a spot in the main anchorage and dropped our hook in about 20 feet of water. Tired from the long day of travel, we didn’t go ashore until the next day.
In the morning, we caught a beautiful sunrise!
San Juanico Tide Pools
By late morning, we dropped the dinghy and went ashore to explore the tidepools around the giant rock. This rock is an island at high tide but attached to the beach at low tide. We spent hours checking out the pools full of critters as we circumnavigated the rock.
San Juanico South Beach aka Rocky Beach
On our second full day in San Juanico, we took the dinghy to the southern beach to explore. This beach is very rocky with very little sandy area. There were great shells to be found among the rocks, and I found an amazing tiny geode!
Walking to The Farm at San Juanico
Last year, Brenden and the kids, along with several other boats’ worth of people, walked up the road to visit the famous Farm. I didn’t go with them that day because I had to work, so I wanted to make sure to go this time we were there. We were also hoping for some fresh veggies, but had no idea if the farm would be open or have anything to sell.
On our way to the farm, Kali spotted a horn toad in the road! I’d never seen one before in real life – just in the movie, Old Yeller! He was just like that and I told the kids how the little boy in Old Yeller used to stuff them in his pockets and carry them around. They’re so stoic and docile, the one we found let us pick him up, after Scott assured us that he used to pick them up and play with them all the time as a kid. Honestly, the horn toad was one of the highlights of my day walking to the farm…
Soon after re-releasing the horn toad to do as he pleased, we reached the farm! They weren’t ‘open’ and had nothing to sell as far as produce, but the caretaker, Manuel, welcomed us to sit in the shade of the palapa and chatted with us for a while. He didn’t speak english, and with our broken Spanish, we stumbled through a conversation – but it was so cool to just sit and talk with somebody and really try to have a conversation!
He remembered Brenden and the kids from last year! He remarked how big Evan had gotten. Wow, so cool that he remembered them.
He also asked us if we fish from the boat and we told him that we’d caught some snapper in the bay the previous night. We asked about Mahi Mahi, as we havne’t had a single bite this year on our trolling hand lines, and he said they’ll be here later. He told a story about catching 12 Mahi in 20 minutes one day last year. Wow!
That was our last day in San Juanico and the next day we left to head down to Isla Coronado to show Scott the next cool spot!
Thanks for reading! ~Rachel