Puerto Alcatraz

In the afternoon when the wind had dropped out we headed ashore to explore. The town is another fishing village, and is a little bigger than Puerto Magdalena. We pulled the dinghy ashore between the Pangas, a cautious head up for an explore.

We are always cautious in town like this because of dogs. This was unnecessary, the people were super friendly. The people were mostly elderly, but they directed us to their 2 little stores which are basically rooms in peoples houses. We were able to get some long life milk, eggs and limes. We are certainly getting better at asking for things and working out the price. Whilst we probably have worse vocabulary than a 4 year old, the locals certainly seem to appreciate our effort.

We did have a conversation with an elderly fisherman who was very proud of his town. We really regret our inability to converse and it is something we will improve.

Along the shorefront there were ruins of what must have been old canneries. We gathered that the seafood now was taken to San Carlos for processing. There were also a lot of sea shells piled around the ruins, obviously part of the bounty that keeps the town alive collected from Clam Bay.

So we gather someone was either very hungry or these are cans left from the cannery process.

We also found the super cool steal boat on the land just behind the ruins.