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Another attraction for members of the wet set is being able to investigate shipwrecks on the ocean bottom — well over 100 vessels are known to have sunk hereabouts since the days of the Spanish galleons.
The big prize was gold, particularly in South America, so for a while Madrid regarded the Caribbean chain as “islands of Peru” where the galleons could stop for fresh water.
In 1579 England’s Francis Drake, during the round-the-world trip that earned him his knighthood, took a break from harrying Spanish treasure galleons and stopped for repairs at Point Reyes (Drake’s Bay, just north of San Francisco).
During colonial days the bay was visited by both Spanish galleons and pirate ships looking for shelter, repairs, or supplies.
Here, the Oriental spices, and silks and exotic cargoes from faraway ports were unloaded from the republic’s ancient galleons.