Our Trip To Cabo – Day #1

I have gone through all our pictures from our recent trip to Cabo San Lucas. I don’t have nearly as many as I normally take while on vacation, but in my case, this is a good thing. It means I was underwater, doing a lot of diving. :) Unfortunately we have broken way too many underwater cameras, and I do not have a working one at the moment, but I will do my best at describing what I saw underwater and using stock photos. 

Cabo San Lucas is a resort city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur (California South). Rated as one of Mexico’s top tourist destinations, Cabo San Lucas is known for its beaches, scuba diving locations, Balnearios, the sea arch El Arco de Cabo San Lucas, and marine life. Baja is the peninsula that is separated from the main part of Mexico and is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Sea of Cortez to the east.

We go down to Mexico all the time, but usually we are diving in our beloved Cozumel. We decided to try something different this time though and went to Cabo San Lucas instead. Cabo is down at the bottom tip of the peninsula. I definitely took part in the scuba diving. :) I dived (yes, that is really the proper term) most of the days I was there, with 2 days of snorkeling in La Paz, but more on that later. Larry only dived a couple of days. He just doesn’t dive as much as I do any more. Most of our diving this time was in the Sea of Cortez, though we had a couple of dives that were right where the two bodies of water meet. The whole of the Baja Peninsula is where the desert meets the sea, on both sides. Though it is a very deserty region, it was also a very lush desert region.

We traded in one of our timeshares and the Villa del Palmar was home for the week. We had a gorgeous view of the famous sea arch from our room. 

We were also perfectly situated for the nightly shows, as we were right above the stage. Every night’s show was different. We watched them every night we were there, with one exception, when we stayed in La Paz for the night.

Diving in the Sea of Cortez is definitely different than diving in the Caribbean. The water is on average about 10* colder and it is murky. The visibility was only about 40-50 feet at best, but sometimes only about 10-20 feet. We are used to the crystal clear, warm waters of Cozumel, where you can see for easily 100-150 feet out. The marine life is also different, but just as vibrant as it is in Cozumel. I don’t mind diving in the colder water, but Larry is getting to the point that he ONLY wants to dive in the warmer waters. I LIKE the variations. We saw such a great variety of marine life, from sea lions to white tip sharks and hammerhead sharks, eagle rays to mobulas, and oh so much more. I was in an underwater Heaven. 

We saw tons of sea lions. We saw some in Cabo, but most of them we saw on Espiritu Santo, out of La Paz. More on that later though. They are so curious and playful and just come right up to you.

White tip sharks. We see these quite frequently too, diving throughout the Caribbean and Australia. My first shark encounter was a white tip, at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, many moons and many dives ago.

Scalloped hammerhead sharks. I only saw a few, but on the 2 days I missed because we were in La Paz, someone I was diving with all week saw a whole school of them. Go figure. :) Our first hammerhead we saw was in Belize a couple of years ago.

Eagle rays. We see these all the time down in Cozumel. They are so beautiful and graceful. I love the eagle rays. 

Mobulas are a type of ray that are also called devil rays, because they have 2 horns on top of their head. They like to fly above the water as much as they like to swim in the water. I didn’t see many of these beautiful animals, but we did see some.

Most of our diving was around the arch and the rocks.

This is only the beginning of our trip to Cabo/La Paz. So sit back, and enjoy the tour. There is plenty more to come. Have a great day and make everyday great. Stay safe and stay well. ’Til next time.

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I have worked in the restaurant and catering industry for over 35 years. I attended 2 culinary schools in Southern California, and have a degree in culinary arts from the Southern California School of Culinary Arts, as well as a few other degrees in other areas. I love to cook and I love to feed people.

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  3. OMG…. Mi Amiga Jeannie…. you have finally got away to Cabo!!! I can’t wait to go back to Cabo, it’s my love of all places that Dana & I have traveled. I love your illustration on the variety of fishes, the murky water and how you explain how the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez have joined in the water/sand. Our sister had a timeshare at the Villa de Arco where you and Larry are staying, but she passed away in 2009 and her kids decided on something else besides Cabo. When you have a moment when you’re back a home, please give me a call and we can caught up on things. Think of you always when I’m at the Rec Center (and were always expressing how great your aquacise classes) were so meaningful to a lot of the women at Wheat Ridge. Stay safe, enjoy a margarita and…. take a walk over to the Grand Solmar and the Playa Grande where we have our two (suites: Master & Presidential)..
    As always Jeannie, miss ya.. the laughter, your great cooking, and treats you’d bring us girls! (P.S) try visiting Todos Santos…. while your there in Cabo… Tu Amiga, Delores Nicodemus

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  4. Diving is fun. We haven’t done it as much as you have but we’ve done some scuba diving in various places including the Great Barrier Reef. Despite having been to 50 countries and living in Texas I have never been to Mexico. The photos are amazing.

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  11. I’m curious as to how you break your underwater cameras.
    I got one for my recent trip and all went well, but the quality isn’t the best. I didn’t dive but went snorkeling. The water was a bit murky where we went, too. I have no clue what I would have done if I saw a shark…

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    1. Sharks for the most part are more afraid of us. They don’t like us too much. I think because we live at a high, dry altitude, the O-Rings get dried out, and then the opening gets jammed, so when we go to sea level, and try to fix it, it floods. We’ve creatively broken about 4-5 underwater cameras. Some of the less expensive cameras have good quality, but it usually the real expensive ones that take the best shots, understandable. 🙂

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