Geographical Thursday
December 19, 2002
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* Cabo San Lucas Resort *

On my first day in Cabo San Lucas, I drove all around town looking for a way to get to the beach. After several hours I finally found an area that had been leveled and cleared away, as if there had been a resort hotel there. There were, indeed, resorts hotels all along the shore line. This place seemed to be the only place to access the beach without going through one of the existing hotels. I later found out that this was the only public access to the beach. I heard that Mexico has certain laws that are suppose to allow anybody to access the beaches and nobody can keep people off of any particular beach. Unfortunately the home owners and hotels build so strategically that there is almost no way to park near enough and no way to get around their facility to get to the beaches. Even in this one access, some of the hotel officials were continually harassing different people that were trying to use the beach.

I stopped there and went out on the beach. There was a neat cafe right on the beach where I got something to eat and enjoy the resort surroundings.