Sailing is a great activity that fit all ages and genders. Combining love for the ocean, relaxing lifestyle and adventures time.

Each person can reach and find his/hers own link to sailing. If you are adrenaline seeker or just want to relax and enjoy quality time at sea. If you wish to learn new skills and share your enthusiasm and passion with others like you… Cabo San Lucas is a great place for you to sail.

Cabo San Lucas is blessed with great sailing conditions. Most of the year enjoying north-north-westerly winds with very little swell.

The large Cabo San Lucas bay allows a perfect combination of good winds (usually blown from land) with no waves at all.

Anchorage is Cabo San Lucas area:

• Cabo San Lucas bay is a relatively shallow and make perfect anchorage for small medium and even large
  

  Cabo San Lucas Bay

  cruiseship for having calm seas, sandy bottom and provides proximity to town.

• Santa Maria bay is a beautiful little cove that offers very good anchorage as well. It is typically busy with boats and snorkelers duringday time. All traffic is usually gone by 2pm leaving a magical placesandy beach with beautiful snorkeling option as well. The bay is open to the south-east and might suffer swells in summer-time when a tropical storm is forming in the south.
• Chileno bay offers perfect anchorage but can suffer from the same south-east swell during summer months. Clear water, corals and fish make this anchorage a very popular spot during day time.
• Palmilla bay – Favorite by local fisherman, Palmilla bay offers good range of anchorage depths with an easyaccess to the beach. The bay large and open and during summer can suffer the same swell.
  

  Santa Maria bay

  

  Palmilla Bay

  

  Chileno Bay

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The Whales are here!!

A lot was said about Cabo San Lucas as a vacation destination. When winter approaches, so does the Humpback and Gary whales. These very welcome visitors migrate every year from their feeding territories at the north, just off Canada costs along US west cost towards Baja California’s warm and safe water.

In Cabo San Lucas, we start observing the first whales in early November, for the next few months more and more whales are coming to mate and give birth. We usually observe whales in small pods of no more then 5 at a time, 2 or 3 individuals together are common site. The official “whale watching season” in Los Cabos starts in December.

From late January, we start seeing calves as well. The graceful way a mother whale is nursing her new born is a life time memory to watch.

Although blue whales, fin and Orca (killer whale) has been spotted in Los Cabos waters, the most common whales here are Gray Whales and the acrobatic Humpback whales.

Humpback whale, may be the most known whales dew to is “surface activity” of Breaching (up to whole body out of the water), flapping with it’s long side-fins or strong hits with it’s tail. This giants can reach over 40 feet long and weight over 20 tons. No imagine it breaching out about 100 feet from you….

The gray whales are more “shy” ones, with no distinctive surface behavior, we can see their warm breath reaching out of the water and their distinctive tail once they are ready to dive again.

Whale watching in Cabo San Lucas is a growing business. In the past, you could just take a boat and go whale watching. This year, after a joint effort from local tour operators and SEMARNAT  (the Mexican officials related to these issues) a serious of courses where given free of charge in order to increase awareness among tourists, boat captains and tour operators in Los Cabos. A special permit regulates the amount of boats that can participate in the activity. As future whale watcher, help us maintain a safe environment to the whales by choosing ONLY companies that got their permits (easily seen for a special flag thy fly high).

Be sure to plan your next vacation to Cabo during winter time, not to miss the opportunity to see nature at it’s best!!

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Love’s Beach – Playa Del Amor

Here at Lover’s beach something interesting is happening. You can actually choose in which body of water you would like to swim in; the ‘Golf of California’ at the Sea of Cortez or the Pacific Ocean.

Overview

Something like that happens only at the bottom of continents like at the southernmost point of Africa at ‘Cape Agulhas’ at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (The Atlantic and the Indian Oceans).

Lover’s Beach is mostly unspoiled and should not be missed; it’s close to Land’s End and accessible by boats. Conveniently, Divorce beach is on the other side just across facing the Pacific side. From the safe side of Del Amor it’s possible to swim in the direction of the marina (west) to snorkel at Pelican’s Rock or just of the beach to right at Neptune’s Finger.

Lover’s Beach by Foot

Unfortunately the access to Love’s Beach is not easy by foot because of forbidding rocks and dangerous cliffs. The recommended way to get here is by a water taxi/glass bottom boat to drop you.  If you choose to walk make sure you wear good sandals and be ready for small adventure (45 minutes walk at least).  The shore of Love’s Beach, facing Cabo’s bay is safe for swimming, you can spend day on the beach and go snorkeling. You don’t need a lot of money with you as there are no venders there (just for the water taxi).  p.s. do take water and food).

Lover’s Cave

At Lover’s Beach you can find an enormous cave. This cave is well knows as Love’s Cave. It’s open from above and about 100ft deep (30m). According to the folkloric story it got its name because it’s well known that when two people walk in three coming out.

The other side of Del Amor is facing the Pacific side, Divorce Beach. Divorce beach is only to enjoy looking at – the current, undertow literally will suck you away.

Lover’s Cave, where two people walking in and three coming out.

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Snorkeling at the Pelican’s Rock

Close to the Cabo San Lucas’ marina entrance, 10 minutes away, about half way to Land’s End located the Pelican’s Rock, a magnificent snorkeling and diving area.

Overview

The Pelican’s Rock is a beautiful habitat to various species of tropical fish; glass bottomed boats tours can be rented from the marina at any given point.

The area is an ideal place for snorkeling and scuba diving. From Lover’s Beach bay facing side, to the west, one can walk towards the marina to Pelican’s Rock snorkeling/diving site. Here the shelf is a great habitat for large schools of tropical fish. Skilled and beginners divers must not miss this marine canyon.

Here, close to Pelican’s Rock, coming off Lover’s Beach, unusual currents conditions around 100ft. (30m.) forming sand falls starting their decent down to 6500ft. (2000m.) fall to the canyon’s bottom.

The Pelican's Rock

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