** WELCOME TO CABO SAN LUCAS **
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, located at the southern-most tip of the Baja Peninsula, is an anchor port for all cruise ships traveling to the Mexican Riviera. The arched passageway at this southern tip, called Los Arcos, separates the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez. The water in the Sea of Cortez is too shallow for cruise ships to pull up to an actual port, therefore, all cruise passengers must be tendered in to the Cabo San Lucas Port from their ships offshore, anchored location. Although the tender boats are tiny in comparison, they still transported nearly 100 people with each trip to and from the port. Even though the tender process took a little bit of time, it was still fun.
Being that we had two days in Cabo, we decided to go shopping on the first day. It was fun teaching the girls how to barter with the salespeople in the shops. As soon as we would walk into the area where all of the shops were located, the salespeople would say, "Whatever you want today, it's almost free for you". The girls were thinking that was pretty cool until they asked the price for a necklace, and the salesman replied, "40 dollars"! Brack turned to me in surprise, and exclaimed, "I thought it was almost free? That's more than we pay at home". We ended up passing on quite a few cute necklaces, until we finally got the price we wanted to pay.
On our second day in Cabo we went on a glass-bottom tour boat. Our tour guide took us all around the Sea of Cortez, showing us some cool rock formations, and telling us a little about the different beaches and caves. We stopped in an area full of colorful fish. He fed the fish bread so that they would swim up to the surface for better viewing. At times, there were divers creating bubbles in the water beneath our boat, so the best views of the fish were often to the side, rather than through the glass floor of our boat.
At the conclusion of the 30 minute boat tour, our guide dropped us off at Pelican Beach, to hang out in the sun, relax on the beach, and swim in the water. While there, the four of us went snorkeling. It was so much fun! We saw hundreds, if not thousands, of fish.....of all colors, shapes, and sizes. They were beautiful! While we were snorkeling, we came upon a couple of girls who had fish food. They were feeding the fish right by us. The fish were swimming through our legs and all around us........IT WAS AWESOME!!!!
(This was our tour guide, filling the boat with gas before we went out on our tour)
This is called Pelican Rock. People are often seen jumping from this rock.
Lover's Beach
This rock formation resembles Michael Jackson's nose
This one is a Sea Horse
This is a cave on Lover's Beach. It is said that 2 people go in, and 3 come out.
This rock looks like the back of Scooby Doo's neck and head.
The Sea of Cortez side of Los Arcos.
This is the Pacific Ocean side of Los Arcos. Our guide suggested that it resembles a dinosaur drinking water.
This is called Divorce Beach. Unlike the calm waters of Lover's Beach, this water is much more turbulent.
View of our cruise ship from Pelican Beach.
