The Hook, Isla San Francisco
08 March 2011
The waves/swell started picking up after I went to bed and Jim woke up when I started to get up to check which way it was coming from. He went out to find that our nice anchorage had turned into a lee shore with waves crashing on the cliff behind us. So here we go at 1am hauling anchor and running from Little Double Bight to go to Isla San Francisco 18 miles away.
Once we got out of our hole, the winds picked up bigger and we were able to sail some of the distance to our new anchorage. We had to wait about a half hour for more daylight to go into the hook (as we've never been there and the light on the point is not working and there are a few anchor lights from boats in there). We dropped the hook and after talking to Boomer (another red boat we met in La Cruz last year) had a nap for a few hours.
Boats pulling in all day here. We rowed ashore and did some beach walking all the way out to the light. Jim hit the shell lottery and found a paper nautilus with horns almost fully intact (didn't know what it was until we showed it to someone). Now I need to find one myself!
We walked across the island to the other side, pass the salt pans (which is what the photo is of) and to the rocky beach and hills. A very nice little island.
By the time we get back to the boat and the sun sets, there are 18 boats in the anchorage.