Isla Carmen and Canyon

Isla Carmen is one of the largest islands in the Sea of Cortez, lying just off of Loreto. We left Puerto Escondido after LoretoFest and headed a couple hours out to Puerto Ballandra on Isla Carmen, a beautiful anchorage with a narrow entrance that opens up into a large bay with a crescent white sand beach.  In the first photo Linda is standing just behind the beach with the Canyon behind her.  An interesting array of flora and fauna. The round cave was just one that looked to be ideal for a mountain lion (we did see the skin and bones remants of a recent kill by some predator).  Besides the cacuts, there are unusal trees with white bark (I could not identify them) woodpeckers and interesting desert flowers.  You can hike about 4 miles across the island thru the canyon to the
 other side of the bay.  We got too hot and ran low on water so we came back and jumped in the drink.