Done with work

In the last week I saw quite a few Blue Whales, and I think they might be having a last hurrah before they depart, to wherever they go.  Or maybe not?

At Punta Salinas there were these two cute oystercatchers looking at each other

We went to the north side of Isla San Jose and it was neat going to a place I had not been before

There were cliffs of shells and sand

and quite a few dolphins

And a hammerhead shark swam by

Here's a gray thrasher

And some palm leaves in the oasis at agua verde

A Brant's cormorant with breeding plumage on

and an oystercatcher catching an urchin.  Urchincatcher?

I also saw a rattlesnake.  We don't often see these around because its too cold for them I think, but this one was out early.

And I found a crab on a mangrove.  There is a special mangrove crab, but I'd never heard of it before this one.  

I finished work on saturday and then hopped onto Aquila and took off this morning from La Paz.  I got to outside the harbor and anchored and cleaned the bottom really good then sailed around to Isla Cerralvo, where I am now.  Tomorrow I hope to get to Cabo Frailes, to look for whales.  

My plan is to go to San Benedicto on my way back to Vallarta, so that's about 350 miles out of the way.  But I like the place.