Espiritu Santo and Isla Partida are two islands (barely separated) outside of La Paz. There are several popular anchorages on both islas, there are also a dozen or more small coves with room for a few boats or just one. Our plan was to hit Bahia San Gabriel (popular) for a day so we could hike across the island to Bonanza but as we approached the bay the SSW wind was pushing a good sized swell into the place so we rolled on until we came to Ensenada de Gallino (not popular). Turquoise water, white sandy beach at the head of the cove and surrounded by red rock cliffs - very pretty. The hike to the top of the cliff was a black diamond for sure - steep on sandstone - but worth it (will post photos when we've got internet). From the razorback ridge you look into two beautiful bays. In the morning we hoisted the hook and headed back to San Gabriel to do this cross island hike which I figured would take about 30 to 45 minutes. San Gabriel is a very shallow bay - 500 to 600 yards off the beach it's only 2 feet deep, perfect for our 400 pound dinghy since we prefer getting into shallow water, dropping two anchors and wading ashore over trying to roll the thing up a sandy beach on its wheels. So we drop the anchors and start our "short" hike which turns out to be almost 6 miles round trip!! It's a fairly flat hike but it's hot hot hot and there are a ton of stickers however seeing Bonanza from the shore was very cool! As we reach the top of the sandy berm surrounding Bahia San Gabriel on our return 1 ½ HOURS LATER, we discover the flipping tide has gone out - way out. Now as the tide recedes in a shallow bay the distance to deep water become quite far (duh)! Thus our exceptionally heavy dinghy is approximately 400 yards (roughly ¼ mile) from the water. It is sitting on pretty white sand and the water ahead is beautiful, nevertheless it's 9 hours until high water�.... Our hopes of dragging the thing across the sand are quickly dashed as it doesn't even budge as KT and I put all we have into it! So we remove the motor (110 pounds), fuel tank (25 pounds), both anchors (10 pound) plus a few other items. Doing so allows us to move the thing about 10 feet at a time (did I mention it's hotter than crap and the tide is STILL GOING OUT!!). Finally, after 90 minutes of Crossfit -like work we reach the deeper water but our pile of crap, including the motor, are 400+ yards back. Another 60 minutes or so of KT and I carrying the motor et al and we're set to go. Our short cross island walk turned into 4 plus hours of an exhausting Charlie Foxtrot - cold Pacifico in hand, we move to El Cardoncito, a small "V" shaped cove with enough room for 1 boat!