Cabo p.s.

After leaving the downtown marina, we anchored out in Bahia de San Lucas opposite the resorts lining the huge crescent beach. This was the other side of Cabo, literally and figuratively, and it was a water circus. Jet skis! Glass bottom boats! Water taxis! More jet skis!! Chartered party boats! Sailing tours! More jet skis!!! The few anchored cruising boats were bouncing in combined wakes + ocean swell all day long, but it was definitely entertaining.

We wanted to visit the impressive rock formations at Land's End--the very tip of the Baja peninsula--and so did lots of other tourists. The famous beach near the end of the narrow cape (called Lover's Beach on the protected bay side and Divorce Beach on the exposed ocean side) was so crowded with people and water taxis that we could barely land the dinghy, and there was no way to snorkel safely among all the glass bottom boats. We ended up just having a picnic at the "beach zoo", admiring the scenery, then jumping in the water back aboard Second Wind.

Beach zoo & cruise ship

By morning two more cruise ships had anchored in the bay, and the frenzy was likely to be nonstop. Cabo wasn't our kind of place, but we genuinely enjoyed watching the circus!

Hotels on the beach at Cabo San Lucas