Island Scenes Around Loreto

Our days start early at the dive shop. We have been coming to Loreto, and Dolpin Dive, since 2005 and this is (we think!) our sixth time here. Needless to say, we love it! Between the diving, the local divemasters, and the laid back, small-town feel of the town, we will no doubt continue to come back. 

Coronado Island is the closest island and therefore, where the majority of the diving is done. It's also where the sea lions live, always on this one rock outcropping on the east side of the island. It's fun to dive here as they are often playful and come to visit us under water. But above water, they are very stinky so we always hope the wind is going the right direction when we're there. 

I found this photo humorous with the sleepy sea lion being watched over
by the attentive birds.

There are some very cool rock formations.

Can you see the blue footed boobies?

A closer view

The rock in the middle is called Monkey Face Rock (for obvious reasons). The small one on the left, to me, looks like a penguin or a meerkat. 

Happy to be heading to Danzante Island.
It's further away so they usually only go when the water is very, very calm.

Carmen Island is largest of the islands near Loreto. We don't often make it to the far east side but there's lots of interesting things there such as an old salt mine and big horn sheep. Unfortunately, a google search of the sheep produced nothing but articles about hunting them!

This beach on Carmen Island is where we camped while on a kayak trip we went on several years ago.

We found lots of beautiful shells on the beach.

Always on the lookout for something interesting to take photos of.