Isla Tiburon

Tags: Isla Tiburon, Mexico, San Carlos, sailing

Date: June 8, 2025

As we leave Isla San Esteban we see several sea lions sunning themselves in the water. Usually we just see a couple of flippers sticking up of the water:

A little later they came up for air, the left one looking at us as we sail past:

We sailed paset this small island almost covered in a forest of cardon cacti:

We also saw several jumping rays that day. Here the first one comes:

As it's getting ready to splash back in the water a second ray is on its way up:

It was definitely the day spotting animals. This osprey circled to boat several times:

It was getting ready to land in the mast but fortunately it did not succeed. We have had to repair the wind sensor more than once because of bird breaking it by sitting on it.

We anchored off Isla Tiburon (Shark Island) and went for a hike:

The beach was littered with heaps of these shells:

They are of the species Pink-mouth Murex Shell. We have seen and collected them on other beaches but here they were covering the beach in big heaps, there were thousands of them.

Large barrel cactus:

A stone arch:

We were nearing the of spring season and sailed overnight to San Carlos for summer storage of the boat. We saw four of the large shrimp fishing vessels right before sunrise:

We anchored in the bay outside the marina in San Carlos for a scouple of days and got this lovely evening picture of the hills around us: