Cabo San Lucas to Puerto Los Cabos (Nov. 12, 2011)

We left Cabo San Lucas at 9:00AM on Sunday with the intention of cruising to Bahia Los Frailes but soon realized we left too late to make our destination while it was still light. We decided to stop at the new marina at Puerto Los Cabos at 12:30PM. Last April, on our exploratory trip to the Baja, we drove past this marina on our way to the airport but didn’t have time to look it over. As we guide our sailboat past the jetties at the mouth of the entrance, a Mexican Navy boat passed us as it headed into the marina at high speed. It was a modern military style patrol boat and not the usual modified fishing boat or panga. Alex told me not to turn too close, he thought it was really cool.

We counted 9 sailboats in the marina, 7 flew the Baja Ha Ha pennant from their spreaders, including s/v Deep Playa and Maura’s Dream. Deep Playa is from J-dock at Shilshole Bay Marina in Seattle and are friends of Aaron and Nichole (s/v Bella Star). We had to stop at the fuel dock while the harbor master assigned us a slip. A very large yacht was tied up ahead of us: it had a helicopter on the upper deck and some kind of speed boat sticking out of the stern and a twenty foot fishing boat with 3-outboard engines tied up to its side. It’s amazing that people have that much money to spend on their toys. We were assigned a space on the end of L-dock in the heart of the marina. Another sailboat was already tied up but there was there was plenty of room for us too.

Construction was not finished on the marina: the road was unpaved around half the marina; the bath houses were not built, temporary trailers were used for bathrooms and showers. The landscaping that was completed was beautiful and displayed art work of a famous female Mexican artist of the early twentieth century, but I’m sorry to say I don’t remember her name. There was a bar that served tacos and nachos next to the office and a store that sold dolphin souvenirs. Some of the piers were arranged to hold penned in dolphins, and a company was charging tourists to swim with the dolphins. We thought that was horrible for the dolphins and were very sad to see that practiced here. Cindy and I had a few beers after checking in while Alex worked on his homework.

That evening I made cheese burgers and beans for supper and we went to bed early so we could get an early start the next morning. In the morning Cindy noticed that the mega yacht with the helicopter had already left.