The Isla San Jose salt mine turned out to be very photogenic. Though referred to as a mine, there’s nothing underground about it. It’s more salt flats, with hundreds of settling ponds dug in grid patterns across the middle of the island. Crumbling concreto buildings, an old truck and crumbling tractor are all that remains of the long since abandoned settlement and salt flats. We spent a few hours hiking over, around and through the salt flats with our friends Scott and Tanya from Kialoa and Bill from Graybeard.
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| Spring is in the air. Flowers are blooming where they can. |
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| Tanya, Scott, Jim, Tricia and Bill with Falcon VII and Kialoa behind |
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| The remains of housing from decades in the past. |
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| This may look like ice but it's all salt, slowly eroding away. |
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Jim hiked up the hill to take this amazing photo of the salt flats to
to give a bit better view of the overall configuration of the ponds |
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| When we returned to the beach a pod of dolphins were racing around the beach. |
Los Gatos was another wonderful place to photograph.
Enjoy the eye candy.
Jim and Tricia Bowen
S/V Falcon VII
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