Isla Danzante 

(Honeymoon Cove)

This is the view of the island as we sailed past, the jagged wilderness is really stunning.
This was the tiny north bight anchorage, just big enough for our boat, stern anchored.  We could clearly see the reef on each side of the boat and the clear water highlighted the many multi-coloured fish which swam around the boat.
We didn't have to worry about the distance to row ashore here, we could have just as easily swam ashore to our private little beach.
No wonder they nicknamed this cove 'Honeymoon Cove" it really is quite idyllic.
We simply could not take enough pictures of our very favourite anchorage of the whole of the baja.
This view shows you the whole cove, with our north bight anchorage in the foreground, the middle bight just in view in the top left corner and the south anchorage where you can see another yacht anchored by another small beach.  The other two coves further to the south also provide anchorage for one boat each.
These little fellows which I refer to as 'zebra' fish always hung around the boat for bread crumbs. This picture was taken from our cockpit looking down.
These flowering cacti rise to about twenty feet or more and can cover a whole hillside.
These bright red flowers grew on the side of the rockface and reminded me of geraniums because they were a similar shape and size.
The snorkeling here was great and we saw many many different varieties of starfish of all different colours and designs, they were some of the brightest ones I'd ever seen so we couldn't resist lifting them out the water for a quick photograph before we return them to their homes.
Whilst we were walking the beach around the north tip of the island we stumbled across this nest in plain sight on a rock on the beach.  It was a seagull nest and there were many nesting on this island.
This colourful lizard was a very brave fellow, he sat there for a long time whilst we took photos of him.

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