21. Mulegé
Mulegé is a small town with approximately 4,000 inhabitants. As the city is located not directly at the sea but a few miles heading inland, good anchoring positions are hard to find. The very shallow riverbed of the river Santa Rosalía allows only dinghies to go up to the city centre. That's why we anchored at the mouth of the river next to the small peninsula with its lighthouse and moved on in the dinghy. The river creates a green landscape with plenty of palm trees.
The river was filled with blue jellyfish which seem to have been driven into the river mouth by the tides. Luckily we didn't recognize them directly after anchoring when we were snorkeling around the boat to check the anchor position and explore the reefs. Otherwise I would perhaps not have jumped so simply into the water.
Barry left the Southernease in Mulegé and took a bus back home, I took Brian to a dentist and played the translator and after some little grocery shopping we left the city again. Sights in and around Mulegé are the Mission Santa Rosalía de Mulegé, cave paintings of the Sierra de Guadalupe and the cities old prison where prisoners could move freely and had to appear only in the evening again before it was converted into a museum.
Officially, Mulegé can call itself Heroica Mulegé. This title is the reward for the residents of Mulegé and the surrounding villages who fled the U.S. Army during the American-Mexican War.
