Snorkel Adventures

While most of the caravan folks headed into Cabo to ride the glass bottom boat or to go parasailing, we had a leisurely morning and then loaded up all of our snorkel gear and took off in the Jeep to discover snorkeling playas (beaches).  As we drove into Cabo yesterday in the RV, we both were checking out the shoreline for places where we could drive down to the beach.  That paid off today.

Our first beach was accessed by a dirt road next to a new development, so we figure within a couple of years, that beach will be on private property.  But today, we were not the only ones interested in this cove.  The water was pretty rough and waves were crashing onto the sand but once you were past the surf, the water appeared calmer and there were some rock outcroppings that might hold some fish.  We donned our booties, masks and snorkels and walked down to the water’s edge to put on our fins.  1st big mistake!  We both got rolled in the surf and dunked before the fins were put on.  We swam out a ways but were afraid of getting too close to the rocks due to the waves and the water was rather murky because of them too.  In we came.  Second big mistake! The beach looked like a good place to sit and remove our fins but it was not.  Again we were rolled in the waves, we sat and were pushed around and the whole time our suits, hair and ears were filling with sand!  Third big mistake! As we walked up to the Jeep, I realized that I had forgotten our beach towels!

 Back to the RV to get the towels.  I had to pee at the RV and when I dropped my drawers, sand fell everywhere!

It was too early to quit so we drove down the road to the next beach access we had seen.  This was a better cove, more protected with steep rock walls into the water.  Lessons learned - we floated in the water to put on our fins, the towels were on the beach and we removed the fins before getting out of the water.  We snorkeled for about 45 minutes and loved looking at all the varieties of fish.  The best was the needle-nosed fish and the large angel fish.  As were were preparing to get get out, a group of snorkeler from a party boat were swimming and feeding the fish.  I had noticed at least two fish following me around begging, now I know why!

I feel sorry for whoever has to clean the showers we used after swimming.  We washed off sand that had stuck to our skin in places I can’t describe on this blog!