Our favorite tour that we went on was a whale boat tour with Mimi! We reserved a boat tour in advance, only to find out the morning of that there was a limited number of tender boats to shuttle people from the cruise ship to the shore. We were slotted to leave too late to make our tour. We scrambled and had a nice customer service agent pull some strings to help us get onto an earlier tender. Even with that, we had to run to make it to the tour. We were able to call them, and fortunately they were willing to hold the boat for 10 minutes for us to arrive. It was stressful but so worth it!
Two of our seafarers! You can tell that we were not properly dressed for the excursion. The morning was an absolute scramble.
Look at this visually appealing triangular rock!
Mimi knew a secret...
This is the classic Cabo photo spot. Naturally it was super crowded. Good thing it wasn't our destination...
Our guide took the boat to full throttle out into the open water for about 15 minutes. I thought that we would spend a lot of time floating around looking for the whales, but they took us to the exact spot where a pod of 4 humpback whales was hanging out! We had an amazing tour guide who is working on her PhD in Marine Biology. She kept the whale facts coming, and we didn't go longer than 5 minutes without a whale sighting.
The excitement level was SO HIGH when this whale started slapping the water with its tail! I'm so glad we caught part of this on video. The whale slapped his tail 10 times in a row! Incredible.
The whales were popping up all around us while we chilled on the surface. They come to Cabo to breed during the winter and migrate to colder areas during the summer. They store up a lot of food in the artic in preparation for mating season, so here they aren't diving as deep and long hunting for food. It made for some awesome whale watching!
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