The road less travelled

Having spent five days in Cabo San Lucas it was time to get away from all the tourists and head for the beaches on the south east coast. We left highway 1 and the tarmac road just outside of San Jose del Cabo and found the rutted, dirt coastal road. Mark wanted to try out his offroad driving skills and this certainly put them to the test.

 (Mark making sure there was a way through)

We camped for a couple of nights on the beach at Cabo Pulmo national park, and had it (almost) to ourselves on the Friday.

Mark cooking breakfast

Of course the peace and tranquillity didn't last as a large group of friends from the mainland arrived in the early hours of Saturday morning (they missed the turn and drove on for another few hours), played their music at high volume all day and then treated everyone else to a tequila-fuelled karaoke late into the night (reminiscent of a few nights out with my mates :-) ) Add to that the other families and day-trippers that came to enjoy the beach and snorkelling, meant we had to share with them. We had fun watching the pelicans feed - circling overhead, spotting their prey then diving at speed into the shallows. We had visions of their long beaks getting stuck in the sand, but no, they were much cleverer than that. Later on we sat out under the starry skies watching the shooting stars and it was magical.

We've now been in La Paz since Sunday evening for carnival (see other posts) and went snorkelling with whales sharks yesterday afternoon. Such beautiful creatures and something we've wanted to do for many, many years 

 (Photos courtesy of On Board Baja).

Tomorrow night (Thursday) we make the 13 hour ferry crossing to Mazatlan on the mainland.