The Baja’s signature landmark offers sightseeing, snorkeling and swimming galore — just watch out for dive-bombing pelicans.
In This Mexico Travel Article You Will Discover
- How To Access Land’s End
- Snorkeling Opportunities
- Survival Guide for Lover’s & Divorce Beaches
Snorkelling gear is available at Land's End for around 50 Pesos per person, per day.
Pelican bomb! Above me, as I snorkel offshore from the aptly named Pelican Beach, a 15-kilogram pelican tucks its wings to its side and drops like an anvil out of the sky.
Sploosh! Arm’s length away, the bird hits the sea bill-first, scooping up hapless sardines in it’s mouth-trap. Tiger eels be damned, it’s pelicans you’ve got to watch out for.
Here at El Arco de Cabo San Lucas (or Land’s End) — the signature landmark of Mexico’s Baja California Sur — action abounds all-around.
My girlfriend, Erin, and I had hired a water taxi from Cabo San Lucas’ marina just a half-hour earlier (for $5 US per person) and slipped our driver and additional 50 Pesos apiece for snorkeling gear. Following an informative boat-tour of the stunning rock formations Land’s End is known for, we now find ourselves bobbing about like marker buoys, dodging boats and weaving through fellow snorkelers as we chase fish around Pelican Rock.
Get up-close and personal with marine life at Pelican Beach.
This area is known for the best scuba diving and snorkeling in the area — Pelican Rock itself is only a few dozen metres offshore; a simple swim (keep your eye out for rogue water taxis), but beyond the rock, the ocean floor drops to an astonishing depth of more than 1,000 metres. This creates a shelf full of sea life for the swimmer or diver to enjoy. Lukewarm water and easy ocean currents allow us to get prune hands without even noticing.
The "Magic Cave." Two go in, three come out (nine months later...).
It’s much different on the west side of Land’s End. Walking south from Pelican Beach, we wind around rock formations, past the “Magic Cave” (it’s magic because two people go in, and three come out… if you know what I mean), across Lover’s Beach — a calm, yellow-sand swimming beach with panoramas of the town of Cabo San Lucas — and towards the turbulent Divorce Beach.
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You’ve gotta make time for it! Get down there
! I agree, Cabo (& the Baja in general) is a very special place. Thanks for reading!
My wife and I spent our Honeymoon in Cabo. From 4-wheeling in the dunes to taking a booze cruise on the Sea of Cortez there is not a beach town we would rather be in (and this is coming from a couple who spent three years in Hawaii). We bought into a little Timeshare down there, yet we have not found the time to get back down there to use it. We have been married for ten years, maybe on our 50th wedding anniversary we will have some time.
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