This anchorage is wonderful and worth multiple visits. Being in the middle of a volcanic crater with stunning relief and still green vegetation and where even when the wind is howling the water stays flat will always bring me back here.  Sailing here in 20 kts of wind was a bit of challenge because it was right on the nose.  Though I thought of reefing several times, serious lethargy prevented that from happening.  The perversity of nature had us encounter the only other sailboat (with sails up) in a COLREG situation where he was on a starboard tack and we on a port tack at the same time that when trying to sail behind him to avoid a collision, the wind gusted and weatherhelm made it impossible to steer downwind.  Good fortune prevailed and though we were able to see the whites of the skippers eyes we didn’t hit the boat!

Once at anchor all was good even though there were 11 other boats around us, all of which left on the next day.  Maybe because it actually rained!  Apparently Cabo san Lucas received an inch of rain – a substantial portion of the 5 inches that falls there annually.  It didn’t rain much in Caleta Partida – just enough to keep us in the cabin for an hour or so.

Sailing back to La Paz was not a happy event because Phase I of this adventure would be drawing to a close in only a few days time.  It was hard to look forward to putting the boat to sleep for a couple of months.