This review pertains exclusively to the scuttled La Merced, the formerly four-masted wooden schooner that's currently housing a small forest by this little harbor.
We're in the area for a wedding, and kept seeing the La Merced from the road as we'd drive into town. I'd read about it online on various roadside oddity sites and was pretty thrilled to see it in person.
To explain, the La Merced is a big, hulking ship that's just pulled up onto dry land, dirt-filled, and with all these little trees just growing out of it. From afar it looks like an old steel ship, but it's all wood, with nails and portholes and doors still on it.
As we came closer we could see part of the hull collapsed into the water with the big nails just scattered everywhere.
There are signs prohibiting getting closer than the docks.
What little I've been able to find about the ship is that it was built a little before 1920 and was put there in the '70s after falling out of use.
Altogether, it's just fascinating to look at. read more