Puerto Los Gatos

This is the small south beach we were anchored off.  This beach had many interesting shells and if you walked along it towards the outside of the bay, you can find many geods in the rock face.
This is the larger, more central, north beach which led to a very interesting pink rock face with a large sand dune we climbed to get this view point.
The rock face was a crumble of  loose shale rock which we clambered over to reach the top.
Here you can see how the weather has carved the smooth low rocks into unique shapes, it is stunningly beautiful.
Similar smooth pink rocks are on the North side and these are fun to explore, finding interesting shapes formed by the wind and waves.
The view from the top of the smooth pink rocks show the North beach and the pink sand.
These incredible rocks are really quite smooth, even though they appeared to quite jagged in places.
The strange rock formations really do play tricks with the eye sometimes......
The rock face on the south beach is made up of multi layers of different rocks, many of which have natural geods.  We found some with very complete crystals, almost transparent in appearance.
Here is a close up of one of the geods we found, these crystals were not as well formed as some, but it gives a good indication of the kind we were finding..  Once we knew what to look for we also found many on the beach which had been broken free by rock falls.
The many different shapes and patterns formed by the different rocks were fascinating, we could have spent weeks exploring them.
These multi painted crabs were about 8" across and they would always surprise you when you were clambering amongst the rock pools.They could also jump a good three feet and were very fast..

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