These are pics from the morning of December 23th as we came around Cabo San Lucas. We had left Santa Maria on December 21st & knew we were in for our last two overnights on the ocean. Since our last overnight was spent in nasty seas I had some trepidation about this trip but was much happier to be getting closer to our destination. When my last night watch was over on the 24th I went down below to sleep & awoke to the sun & San Lucas cape. These are pics of the eastern side of the cape with all of the hotels & homes. We had decided not to enter Cabo because of the extremely high cost (over $100.00 a night to use a mooring ball for one night) & head to Puerto Los Cabos instead. Many of the hotels/homes on the shore were painted bright colors like lime, yellow & rose. We did see quite a few buildings that appeared abandoned, some with sand washed into the first floor, probably the result of the 2003 hurricane. We also commented to each other that there weren't any people on the beaches of the hotels. Hard to tell if they were closed or people were not vacationing because of the economy. We arrived in Puerto Los Cabos (about 20 miles north of Cabo San Lucas) at about 10 am on the 23rd of December expecting to stay through Christmas but that was not to be. Once we finally were able to get on line we found that the weather was not going to cooperate & we had to leave Puerto Los Cabos ahead of big winds to get to La Paz or spend the next week in Puerto Los Cabos marina. The marina is man made & is quite large catering to very expensive yachts. It is not complete yet (the hand drawings of the completed project look pretty classy) with temporary buildings for just about everything. They did have their landscaping almost complete & I have never seen so many varieties of cacti. If they ever complete the project it will be a $200.00 per night marina. So, we left Puerto Los Cabos on December 25th at 5 am & were on our way to La Paz, finally! 
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