Well, the ‘Northerner’ did not blow itself out. Even though we awoke to a calm day, the wind quickly returned with a sinking Barometer. We hunkered down all day and no boats departed save one that prudently came back after a short foray outside the shelter of the bay. One new boat did arrive in the afternoon, healed over and driven by the wind as it tacked into the shelter of the bay. It was a young solo sailor who had struggled by himself all the way from San Jose Del Cabo in a 27′ Ericson. In the afternoon, a few boats used their dinghy to get to the beach, the first we had seen ashore.

Los Frailes consists of a big rock headland connected to a fine sand beach that curves away to the South. At night we can hear the waves breaking on the headland. The headland has some great dive sites as we see Pangas go by with diver flags often anchoring near the cliff at the very edge of the bay. It is part of the larger national marine park reef system which includes the protected Pulmo coral reef, the only one of its kind on the West Coast of Mexico