From Biagio…I finally harvested seafood and it wasn’t from
the fish market. San Jose and San Francisco are two small, almost connecte
d islands. It’s rare to find an estuary in the Sea of Cortez where there’s abundant clams that have a symbiotic relationship with lobsters. Between Isla San Jose an
d Isla San Francisco I found just that. I’m not sure how lobster eggs get into the clams, but when you open up the clams, you sometimes find a miniat
ure lobster living inside. Gathering clams and finding lobsters in Sa
n Jose was very easy. It took on
ly an afternoon to get enough clams and lobster for a delicious meal of lobster and ceviche.
Also interesting in San Jose are the salt flats. There are long sandy flats just behind the beach where salt is harvested. There is old rusted machinery and abandoned houses here so it has an eerie charm to it. On other islands the salt flats are still in use and harvested. But for some reason, these flats seem to have been abandoned.
Photos: Isla San Carlos and area. Fish lips is the skeleton of the eternally smiling puffer fish.
