“The Bay of the Dead” is a useful staging post either on the way north to La Paz or on the way south back to Cabo San Lucas or as a jumping off point into the Sea of Cortez heading toward the mainland ports of Mazatlan or Puerto Vallerta. Our intent is stop for a couple of nights on our way to Isla Isabella on the way to PV and to pop over to La Ventana – more on that later.

Despite the name, Los Muertos is beautiful anchorage, well protected from the prevailing NW winds with soft white sands, with the choice of a restaurant (“1535”) at one end and the El Cardon resort at the other. Also sharing the bay is a bevy of local fisherman who drive their trucks down to launch their pangas early in the morning.

Aphrodite in Los Muertos.

View toward El Cardon Resort.

Panga fisherman’s trucks on Los Muertos beach.