Field notes, v1600
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Seib, R. 1985 Bahia de los Angeles to Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico 4 May the hotel restaurant. We night drove to San Ignacio and back. Saw only two Phyllorhynchus, a Chilomeniscus and a DOB Pituophis. The moon came up right away, and it was pretty cold NW of the gulf. Santa Rosalia to Isla San Marcos, Baja California Sur, Mexico 5 May We went to San Lucas and San Bruno to look for a boat. San Bruno is definitely the place: many pangas and also closer. We arranged to meet at 1530. The boat people were to take us out, drop us off, and pick us up at 1100 tomorrow for 4000 pesos (about 16 dollars). Went back to Santa Rosalia to buy ice. No ice was to be found. We did have an excellent fish dinner at a small Loncheria near the highway. Got gasoline and drove out to San Bruno. The boat ride was short: about 10-15 minutes with an Eveready 55 horsepower. We made camp at a rock beach at the mouth of a canyon just left of center of the island on the West side (see figure). The canyon itself stretched East into the island for over a mile of easy walking. During the last hours of daylight Doris photographed and I explored. I caught a surprisingly un-wary Sceloporus magister and observed Callisaurus and Urosaurus to be