Our favourite restaurant so far is in the corner of this square, which has the bandshell in the middle. The restaurant is called 1697, which is the year the Jesuits landed and built a mission (B likes the name of the local basketball team: Los Misionaros); the mission was the first permanent Spanish settlement in the Californias. The Jesuits named the town after Loreto in Italy, where they'd studied.
Loreto is a small town with one traffic light, and many cobblestone streets.
Today we walked to the marina and watched the pelicans diving for fish. We also enquired, at a few places, about whale watching out past the island - we've had reports of blue and fin whale sightings.
Town square photo by rianap (Flickr Creative Commons)
