Punta Santa Rosa


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Breakfast tacos with eggs donated by 'The Girls'
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Beautiful basalt cliffs and green water south of Punta Santa Rosa
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More campable beaches south of Punta Santa Rosa
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Kate DesLauriers in front of low bluffs
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Don Fleming in front of low bluffs
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Dead whale in front of panga fishing camp
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There is supposed to be a lagoon here, we found simply scrub
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Herb Howe watches the kayaks on a break stop
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Kate DesLauriers collects shells ground and polished into rocks
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Approaching Punta Santa Teresa
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The foundations of the ore processing buildings viewed from the water
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The aroyo with a road back to civilazation from the mining town
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Another rock with an osprey nest
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Beaches with arroyos, we could camp on any of these
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Kate DesLauriers watching me enter a cave
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A smaller group could camp in these caves
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Beautiful reef just under the surface near a point
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Doug Hamilton paddling south from Punta Pilares
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Everyone landed for a break
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Rounding several low points
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Doug Hamilton rock gardening close to shore, as usual
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Red bluffy shore north of Punta Santa Rosa
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Foundation of a house or a corral north of Punta Santa Rosa
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Landed for a lunch break north of Punta Santa Rosa
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Doug Hamilton paddling south to Punta Santa Rosa
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The tip of Punta Santa Rosa
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Setting up camp on Punta Santa Rosa
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Our camp on Punta Santa Rosa viewed from above
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Pelicans off Punta Santa Rosa
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Reefs off Punta Santa Rosa
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Dolphin backbone at Punta Santa Rosa
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The full moon rises at our camp at Punta Santa Rosa
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The intrepid kayaker paddling to Punta Santa Rosa
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The intrepid kayaker rock gardening near Punta Santa Rosa
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Slurry pipe that deposited cones of sand
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Baseball cap with California logo in English
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This cistern dates the mining town at 1943
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More mining town house foundations where the road goes inland
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Andrea Wolf and Herbe Howe heading back to camp from the mining town
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Foundations of the ore processing buildings
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The foundation of the Superintendent's House
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Doug Hamilton took the high road home
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Doug Hamilton repairing his broken kayak rudder
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Gravel beach on north side of Punta Pilares
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Palapa with furnature in fish camp on north side of Punta Pilares
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Pile of rocks on the north side of Punta Pilares
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Sandy beach on north side of Punta Pilares on a calm day
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End of box arroyo above Punta Pilares
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Our camp at Punta Pilares viewed from above
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