This was our shortest port of call. We were in Cabo San Lucas from about 9am until 2pm. We took a water taxi and toured the famous arch in Cabo, Pelican beach, Lovers beach, and we saw the sea lion colony. The water taxi had a glass bottom so we fed the fish and watched them swim under the boat. We had the boat drop us off at a less crowed beach, but we had to get off the boat in the crashing surf. It seemed really dangerous (again, no safety legislation in Mexico), but that's how everyone was doing it.
The beach was really steep so the water stayed pretty low, but during the afternoon a giant swell came up and started sucking bags and people back into the ocean. Our beach toys got swept up by the wave and our bags. Tara ran and grabbed the bags while I held Kaitlyn and Britney. Megan saw the beach toys and ran after them. I didn't notice that until Ashley started screaming and point in Megan's direction. Megan was on her belly kicking while the wave sucked her into the ocean. Tara was oblivious to all of this while she saved the bags. I could let go off Brit and Kaitlyn because the water was still too high and they would have been swept up. Tara was too far away, so I had to wait a few second before letting go of the little ones. I man saw all this happen and ran down to get Megan. He got there first, but I reached her, grabbed her arm, and then the wave took us all out and churned us. I got some footing and pulled her up and we got out of there. It was pretty scary. Megan knows how to swim, but not in the surf or crashing waves. At the same time a lady got sucked in and tumbled. On lookers had to pull her limp body out of the waves. She looked dead, but was fine a few minutes later. Not too many people swam after the rouge wave took everyone out. Although this wasn't a tidal wave, I can see how the tsunami would have sucked hard. We survived Cabo San Lucas! Someone should be making those t-shirts with that slogan on them.
The family standing on the "beach of death"
The famous Cabo arch
The Sea Lion colony
2 comments:
That was scary just reading about it. Glad that all turned out well.
I don't think we'll be cruising with you guys too many "rare" occurences! Glad to hear you made it off the beach of death without casualties.
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