Is there diving, SCUBA or snorkeling in and around Los Cabos - La Paz, Mexico?

The SCUBA and diving is good here but it’s very seasonal because of the water temperatures and the water visibility. When it’s good it’s as good as you can get for water visibility and temperature but it’s a short time.  Into September, October, and November, it’s incredible, 100 plus foot visibility, and 85-degree water.

 

It’s a different kind of diving here. You wouldn’t compare it to the Great Barrier Reef...

The SCUBA and diving is good here but it’s very seasonal because of the water temperatures and the water visibility. When it’s good it’s as good as you can get for water visibility and temperature but it’s a short time.  Into September, October, and November, it’s incredible, 100 plus foot visibility, and 85-degree water.

 

It’s a different kind of diving here. You wouldn’t compare it to the Great Barrier Reef or Cozumel with its spectacular reefs, but we do have natural sea life like whale sharks or manta rays. The manta rays will smack the water, and you can hear it, even a hundred yards up the hill.  They seem to do it more at night but you’ll also see them in the daytime. I’ve heard different things that they’re doing it for a reason, but I don’t know. It seems to me that they’re just having fun.

 

 

 

There is so much sea life out here like the giant mantas and the whale sharks and the dolphins.  The whale sharks get up to 60 feet. And if you can go to La Paz, all winter they’re there, and you’re almost guaranteed to be able to dive with them, and there are not many places in the world you can do that. They’re just spectacular creatures.

 

The giant mantas are perhaps 18 feet across.  They’re just spectacular in the water. Just flying like birds. We’ve seen killer whales right out in front of my property here; orcas just 200 feet out. You don’t see them very often but they come around.   We have pilot whales, a lot of species of dolphins. There’s a ton of sea life here. 

 

In June, you’re not going to see the humpbacks or the grays because they migrated in April, but you can see pilot whales and dolphins. They seem to hang around. I don’t know where the whale sharks go. I think they migrate and they giant mantas migrate. It must be something to do with the plankton and the water temperature that’s necessary to produce plankton.

 

You can get a little taste of some spectacular reefs off the island in front of La Ventana and Pulmo (south of Ventana and north-east from Cabo) is most famous for it’s reefs that are the biggest reefs on the west coast of both continents. 

 

The reason for this is that the currents on each side of the continents and coral needs a constant temperature and so you won’t find the reefs over in Todos Santos (on the Pacific side of Baja) or anywhere on that side because the water is too cold. So Cabo Pulmo (which is on the east side of Baja) is sitting in a unique spot where the reefs can form. 

 

There’s a nice reef off the lighthouse in Bahia de los Sueños, which is south-east of us just 30 minutes or so. There’s a nice reef and cove in 30 feet of water. It’s a great snorkeling place.  

 

(SCUBA diving off Ventana Bay Resort, La Ventana, Baja California Sur, Mexico, pictured.)