From the lighthouse it's a short walk to the Yacht Club, where the port shelters both working fishing boats and a well-maintained marina. Sea lions typically rest on the quayside rocks here, unperturbed by the foot traffic. The Mirador Punta de Salinas, a few minutes further along the Rambla General Artigas, marks the absolute southern tip of Uruguay — a spit of land where the two bodies of water meet at close range and the scale of the Río de la Plata finally makes sense. Its name comes from 19th-century salt extraction operations run here by a German merchant named Luis Bumester. The anchor of the HMS Ajax, one of the three British cruisers that fought the German pocket battleship Graf Spee in the Battle of the Río de la Plata in December 1939, is displayed near this point.