Balandro Bay Baja

 

There is a place called Balandro Bay.  It is off the beaten path and I bet most of the many visitors to Cabo never come here.  Takes a minute to get there, which entails a very early morning drive in order to be at the front of the line.  They limit visitors each day.

 What is so cool is that the entire bay is so shallow you can walk across without swimming at all.  It is a totally unique place where you can find a lot of isolation.  It was so cool to walk almost an hour out into the water not really knowing if suddenly there would be some deep spots to surprise and swallow me up.  It was warm and a good workout too!  It was very much like exploring a new kind of unknown.  Never had I waded through that much water so shallow.   I walked all the way to another completely isolated pure white sandy beach and sat in the sand and just took in the view.  I listened to the wind, it was blowing and made interesting ripples on the water. The sun would come out of cloud cover without warning and cast amazing light over the bay uncovering its magical color.  There were no birds, no animal sounds.  Just a very quiet space pierced by wind drifts.   I remember thinking how the Creator must love variety, diversity and all towards the end of being just beauty.  

Beauty is it's own excuse for being... Thanks Dad, I see more clearly now what that means.

My instinct to explore made me wonder what else was out there, past the normal view.  I walked around some rocky outcrops walked across another beach and found myself looking at this amazing balancing rock.  I got up close, but loved this pic better, to see it in a larger context, to give it scale and to honestly honor it from a distance vs super close up.  I love that it feels a bit "out of reach".  The notion that it might be some kind of guardian of this whole bay came to me.  A little lone sentinel looking out for this special place.   I loved this place as it was a different kind of cool. A simple but lasting memory.

If you like a quiet type of beach day, where walking doesn't compete with the anticipation of a surf, and walking in the water instead of just the beach interests you, I highly recommend it.