As John Steinbeck wrote in "The Log from the Sea of Cortez" after his March 1941 visit to Cabo San Lucas:
"The great rocks on the end of the Peninsula are almost literary. They are a fitting Land's End, standing against the sea, the end of a thousand miles of peninsula and mountain. Good Hope is this way too, and perhaps we take some of our deep feelings of termination from these things, and they make our symbols. The Friars stood high and protective against an interminable sea."
