Hotel Cantamar Beach Resort and Marina, La Paz Mexico: Cantamar was founded on a familyŽs dream and a passion for diving. Originally only a boatramp and panga, small office, and tank filling station, Hotel Cantamar is now a resort with unparalleled ocean views. This 38 room hotel (36 standard plus 2 suites) is newer construction and solidly built. All rooms have air conditioning, comfy furniture, satellite TV and most have phones. Other amenities include a brand new seaside restaurant with fresh family cooking, a freshwater swimming pool overlooking the ocean, and a swim up bar with large screen TV for your entertainment.
Nearby attractions and activities:
La Paz is Mexico's hot spot for family getaways and weekend escapes offering everything from scuba diving, snorkeling, whale watching, kayaking, deep sea fishing, knee boarding or simply lying on an intertube off one La Paz's dazzling white sand beaches. Adventurous travelers can explore the diverse species of tropical fish and play with sea lions or watch from the luxury of a kayak or guided tour. Either way, a number of Baja's most beautiful islands lie just a short distance offshore in the crystal clear water of the Sea of Cortez, awaiting to be encountered.
Packages:
Diving in La Paz: Encircled by an abundance of marine life, the warm, azure waters surrounding the city of La Paz offer some of the most diverse diving found anywhere on Earth. Everything from wall, cave and wreck diving to relaxing drift diving, the waters off La Paz attract a massive diversity of marine life so much so that Jacques Cousteau referred to the Sea of Cortez as the "aquarium of the world" and La Paz the gateway to this unique ecosystem. There are more than 25 first-class dive spots around the many islands surrounding the bay of La Paz, Espiritu Santo, San JoseŽand Cerralvo. Dive with playful sea lions and schools of colorful fish at Los Islotes or dive amongst plankton blooms and tropical and pelagic fish at a variety of wondrous wall and cave dive sites. The Sea of Cortez has it all! Feeling a little overwhelmed with choices? Let Escape Barefoot customize your next undersea world vacation by pairing you up with the best getaway experience suited to meet your needs.
Key dive sites are:
El Bajo or The Seamount: El Bajo is actually three separate seamounts rising up from the depths. It is possible to visit all three in one dive, but only when the current is not too strong. The most northern seamount is famous for congregating hammerhead sharks, typically found NE of the seamount at a depth of only 40 m. The tops of the seamounts are all around 20m and the middle seamount is covered with large green moray eels. Lots of schooling pelagic fish can be found here and occasional sightings of giant Pacific mantas, marlins, whale sharks and schools of jacks. El Bajo is a 2-3 hour boat ride from La Paz and is subjected to strong currents in late fall and winter, but if the conditions are right youŽll come aboard with a memory to last a lifetime.
Los Islotes or Sea Lion Colony: These islets north of Espiritu Santo Island are home to one of the largest sea lion rookeries in the Sea of Cortez, offering habitat to friendly California sea lions and numerous reef fishes. The sea lions are the highlight of the dive with pups playing with the divers from September to October. Depth is usually around 15 feet but it can drop off over rocky boulders to 60 feet or more. The site is well protected from the wind and is considered an easy to moderate dive.
La Reyna: This is a small rock that has a navigation light on the top of it and a small sea lion colony. All sides drop off to 60 feet with a shipwreck in the sand on the southern side. There are several blue spotted jawfish in the sand by the wreck and seahorses, frogfish and even a sea spider can be found on the reef. Whale sharks and mantas have been spotted here as well.
Swaine Rock: A nursing ground for a variety of fish species such as anchovies and yellowtail, this 3/4 mile length hard coral reef is an easy to moderate dive site with an average depth of 30 feet and the occasional strong current. The reef is home to many marine invertebrates and is made up of granite rock and hard coral.
Salvatierra or The Shipwreck: On the bottom of the San Lorenzo Canal lies a ferry boat measuring approximately 300 feet in length Sunk in 1975, the ferry is covered in soft corals and thousands of mollusks, offering protection to an abundant array of reef fish. This is an easy to moderate dive, averaging 60 feet in depth.
Notes:
Included:
- 3 nights at Club Cantamar Hotel;
- 2 days of two tank boat diving;
- Daily breakfast;
- Lunch on diving days;
- Airport transfers;
- Taxes.
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