Good Swimming Beaches in Los Cabos
The sun is always shining, perfect day for the beach. What??? The currents are too treacherous? Welcome to the tip of the Baja where the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortes collide. Not to worry, there are some excellent beaches, they are just a little tricky to find.
The first two I’m going to tell you about are on corridor between San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas. They are not really marked well, but the first one is called Playa Santa Maraia and is between kilometer marker 12 and 13. I’m going to go ahead and assume you know it is on the ocean side. Sheltered from the currents, this is a beautiful beach for swimming and snorkeling.
The second beach is Playa Chilenos. There is a gravel parking lot with no real trail markings between kilometer markers 14 and 15. Again, beautiful once you find it.
The third beach is called Playa Cerritos. It is on the road north out of cabo san lucas (hwy 19) around kilometer 65. They just don’t seem to mark beaches around here !! This one is a surfing beach with a very strong current, but not as dangerous as the beaches at many of the resorts. After going down the wrong two track once, you will find the parking lot and here in the middle of no where with a bar called Cerritos Beach Club !!with a big Harley sitting in the middle between the plasma TV and the pool table. There is even wireless and they will loan you a laptop !!! I read somewhere there is even live jazz on Sundays!!
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We picked an ATV tour at random. Not even sure how we found them. It was a winner. The folks at Carisuva have good equipment, are knowledgable about the desert and do a great tour. We explored the desert, blasted up and down dunes and generally had a great time.
At one point our guide said he saw a couple manta rays jumping out of the water. I thought he had been hitting the tequila too hard , but we saw the same thing on a kayak trip a couple of days later !! (stay tuned for that post)
They also do less fun rhino vehicles and horses, which we almost did instead. We had a rental car, so we drove there, it is on the coast road north of Cabo San Lucas. There are a couple of them close together,so be careful which one. Get directions from the Ranch.
One disclaimer, we were there in the off season and there were only 3 of us on tour. It might be a little less exciting if there was a big parade of ATV’s. The website is Rancho Carisuva Website
Three Jameson's on their ATV tour