We arrived the day before our dive trip in San Jose, Mexico, and took an ATV tour that day. The next day we went to La Paz before boarding our diving boat to go snorkel with whale sharks.

Before the ATV tour, I walked around downtown San Jose a bit. Apparently, there were some drug lord issues not long before we came, so the police was in force, patrolling the main tourist areas:

We were in a nice hotel next to town square:

I then had 1.5h to walk around town square and the so called art presinct (which was not to Aspen level let's just say):

I had a quick local lunch, including dried grasshoppers

We then took our tour to the dunes north of Cabo San Lucas for ATV'ing

they had a small aviary with friendly small birds

it wasn't cheap, but they had the nicest ATVs I had seen so far

we had a big ass ATV, even though it was indeed not cheap

we eventually made it to the beach

and we got so lucky, some baby turtles just hatched

we watched them and helped the few that got lost

go turtles, go...

then back on the tour

sunset was a miss, sadly

After the ATV tour, we met with Arturo and had a nice dinner in a good restaurant he picked:

The next morning, we left early for La Paz to get on a small boat and snorkel with Whale Sharks:

On the way back, we stopped at the famous hotel California:

We then finally arrived back to San Jose and boarded our diving boat for the Socorro Islands for the 9 day diving trip.