The timing is tight: A Northern is coming on 31st, the next real stop is STA ROSALIA more than 90 miles away and tempting Isla SAN PEDRO MARTYR is almost on the way. To keep a slight chance to make a stop before the blow, unic solution is to start the engines early from Kino Bay. Thanks to the speed of ALCYONE, That ll work and we ll manage to arrive before the dark to SANTA ROSALIA, after the dinghy tour of SAN PEDRO. Mistake was to stay too closed to the coast downwind; with a compression effect, the northern accelerate close to the Virgens cape, and we finished 1h before the dark this downwind party with a 7k speed only with a little part of jib...and the lazzybag alone as mainsail...

S PEDRO not far after early motoring from KINO...

...We feel very small with these cliffs returning echo of sea lions barking

...Immediatly the teenagers come to see us...

...no food to expect...they just come to watch...

...show up n play very closed to Helena...water is clear , anchor in 10m  sandbottom is visible.

Still calm, let's ride the dinghy to go around...

In fact, SAN PEDRO MARTYR is a guano factory...

...Access to top is reserved to cliff hangers...

...and numerous birds, safely breeding...and cooking the guano...

The young sea lions are even more excited by the dinghy...

...They follow me all around the island...

There is a small place to land in the south...

...unfortunaly very busy too and ...to go where ?

...how to climb? This place seems to be for long an heaven for sea birds...

Anyway there are some traces of humans...

...the guano was exploited once...how the managed to do it ?

...even by calm weather, its a real challenge...

...10h00, the Northern arrive...

...it's time to leave this sanctuary...

...one reef is enough to leave the island...

...ALCYONE loves that n sail smoothly at 10k+...

...Helena insist, even with this cold water...

...but now, near cabo virgenes, it's gusting more than 35k...

...perfect for 3rd reef but we are tired, we drop everything as early enough ...

to arrive daylight with a bit of jib behind the S ROSALIA breakwater