Our first official stop once we were underway was the island of Santa Cruz which was only a short jaunt from Baltra. We anchored off the north end of the island at Las Bachus Beach and hopped in the pangas for a trip to shore. Bachas is named after some barges wrecked offshore during WWII. Las Bachus is a wet landing on a white-sand beach backed by a saltwater lagoon. Bachus was a wet landing which meant we got as close as we could to shore and then hopped into the ankle to calf-deep water to walk the rest of the way. Some landings would be wet, others would be dry. A dry landing meant that we could find a natural outcropping of rock to use as a dock and get off with our footwear on.