Overcast with a light (10 knot) head wind for the crossing to Isla Sur. A few white caps with seas of 2-to-4 feet. Visibility was about 3-to-4 NM, so we were able to see the island before starting the crossing. We camped on the bluff overlooking a picture perfect cove. There were so many seagulls roosting on the island it brought back memories of "The Birds". This cove has several rock islets guarding it, complete with resident sea mammals, and a cave large enough to enter and turn around in. The water is completely clear. I hope the pictures will capture what this place looks like. It's amazing.

We circumnavigated Norte & Sur counter clockwise in 3-to-5 foot seas with little wind. Still overcast with about 3 NM visibility. Norte's coastline is fairly boring, but Sur is very interesting. Many rock gardens, with some decent caves, arches, and tunnels. We were able to enter most of them, but I skipped one short tunnel that was fairly exposed to the southern swell. It had a protrusion hanging down in the middle that I call the "brainalizer". Maybe on a day with lower tide. There were several pocket beaches with many-many-many seals. The seals are very inquisitive and often surrounded us. I suspect they are habituated to being fed by fishermen.

Visibility varied between about 200 meters to a maximum of 1/2 mile. Most of the time visibility was about 1/4 mile. We had a slight straight on tail wind of well under 10 knots, and a rear quartering seas of 3-to-5 feet. We were in the white stuff for virtually the entire crossing back to Punta Banda. We didn't use the GPSs for the crossing, but left them on for back up. Even though we are comfortable navigating solely by compass, we are more comfortable navigating by sight. We were quite pleased to end up within about 200 yards of our planned arrival point. The southern shore of the peninsula on the way to La Bufadora was spectacular. Many coves and rock gardens full of caves, arches, etc. We took it easy because our boats were loaded, but still sampled some of the easy stuff. The blow hole at La Bufadora is well worth the trip. That thing is huge. It wasn't too difficult to get a ride back to our truck at the La Jolla camp ground.