San Evaristo

San Evaristo is about 50 miles  north of La Paz and is at the southern end of the the Canal de San Jose, it's a protected  anchorage from most wind directions , except the east from which it was blowing with reasonable strength when we arrived there, but the holding was good and besides ourRocna anchor has been infallible.
There is about 20 families a small store or tienda, a school and a water desalinisation plant, the local fisherman are hardworking and it is a beautiful setting with the Sierra Giganta as a back drop.
We met up with an interesting character called Reno and his wife Kathleen, many years ago they had cruised the Pacific on a very small bilge keeled Westerly Centaur, 25ft long. Katheen has been writing a book about their adventures. In the meantime they split time between a stone house that Reno had built near Troy Montana, and their Yorktown 35 sailboat called Star. They haul Star at the Berkovitch yard in La Paz during the summer and spend the entire winter and spring sailing in around San Jose and San Francisco. Reno seems to know all of the locals in the area and spends most of his time helping them out on such projects as trapping goats on Isla San Jose, they hauled 11 of them over in a panga when we were there, collecting firewood, driftwood that blows in with winter storms, there are no worthwhile trees. Hanging arouns in the shade and talking, there seems to be a lot of that going on. He reprovisoins and waters now in San Evaristo then goes out for about six weeks at a time, very low budget and really great guy.
When he heard that we were hauling out at Berkovitch he went back to his boat and came back with a conch shell with the end opened up, I blew it and it had a great loud tone that echoed off the surrounding hills.
Apparently he and his wife collect these shells and hand them out to Berkovitch people, you blow your conch at night and pretty soon someone within earshot will answer. I was really happy to get the conch, unfortunately Liam decided to investigate its bouyant characteristics and the conch once again rests in the tranquil waters of San Evaristo Bay.