Coronado Ferry Landing Farmers Market

“The bay is right there and the vendors have been…”

Low afternoon light comes across the water at exactly the hour you happen to be free, catching the bay behind the vendor tables — and that light is the reason people linger here instead of buying their tomatoes and leaving.

The market sets up at First and B on the island every week: certified organic produce, local honey, cut flowers, prepared food from people who hand you a sample before you think to ask. Some of these vendors have been showing up on the same afternoon for years, long enough that the regulars greet them by name and know which stall to hit before it sells out. That is what turns a weekly errand into the thing that makes one day on the island unlike all the others.

It is free, it runs year-round, and it catches you on the way back from the beach or before the boat home.

Take the person you always mean to see more of. Buy them a peach and stay until the light goes.