Cabo San Lucas

Carlos and Megan left today so, early yesterday we drove down to Cabo San Lucas – about a 2-hour drive. Tommy and Dorothy went with us and we had a great day. It’s a busy, commercialized city, with too many vendors hawking their wares and services, but the beaches are gorgeous with white sand and aqua blue water. We decided we prefer our “quaint” little, laid back town of Los Barrilles.

We took a glass bottom boat out to the Arch and the tip of the Baja Peninsula. We thought about renting glass bottom kayaks but the water was “choppy” and it looked like too much work! We saw some beautiful fish, a sea lion colony, some sea caves and Lover’s 

Beach.

Lover's Beach-Sea of Cortez on one side and Pacific Ocean on the other            

King of the mountain!

After that we walked along the main beach in town – mainly, restaurants and hotels and of course, vendors! – to a fun place to have margaritas and guacamole. We will have guacamole withdrawal when we leave Mexico! They usually make it fresh at your table and it is delicious! The “Mango Dock” had several contests while we were there – a beer guzzling competition; couples trying to throw hula hoops over each other and muscle men (and one women!) doing push-ups. A happening place!

Fruit vendors on the beach sell mango's on a stick. They shove a Popsicle stick in the end of a mango, peel it, slice it in petals, from top to bottom to make a “flower,” drizzle it with fresh lime juice and then sprinkle it with chili powder! Megan loves them! I had one too – minus the chili powder garnish! Delicious!

On the way out of town we visited the blown glass factory. Many lovely items but mostly glasses and vases.