Baja Junkie

Some grub. Some Tequila.  Mucho Fun!

Happiest Hour 50% off
Appetizers &  Drinks  Monday – Fridayt 3-7 PM
Kitchen open until close
Mon-Wed  11:00 AM- 3:00 AM
Thurs-Sunday  11:00 AM – 4:00 AM
Located on the corner of Morales & Lazarro Cardenas (where The Stop Light Restaurant was)

If you are a diver there are a number of areas in Los Cabos that are popular and provide for great diving experiences.

Cabo Pulmo, is a popular dive spot located on the East Cape and is for beginner divers,(30 ft) and advanced divers (100 ft) as well.  2 hours east of San Jose then 5  minutes by boat is where you will find the only living coral reef in the Sea of Cortez.
Land’s End at the famous arch in Cabo San Lucas is for intermediate – advanced divers (50ft-60ft).  Five  minutes by boat from the Cabo marina and you are swimming with sea lions and moray eels.  A sunken boat can be seen in the Falls.
The Sand Falls diving spot is located in Cabo San Lucas and just a short boat ride from shore.  This spot is for beginnersand advanced divers alike.  Steep sand banks go down sharply into a canyon filled with tropical fish.  The canyon runs from the depths of Cabo San Lucas Bay to within 30 ft of shore, making the Cabo Bay one of the deepest in the world.

Pelican Rock is for beginners at 25 ft – 80 ft and attracts many tropical fish.  Just a 5 minute boat ride from the Cabo Marina and you are swimming among the fish.

Neptune’s Finger, commonly referred to as an upside down Baja Peninsula, is just 5 minutes from the marina.  This spot is for advanced divers and offers a spectacular canyon wall dive.

Gordo Banks is another spot for advanced divers (110ft-120ft) located about an hour boat ride from La Playita.  There is a seamount where you can see Marlin, Skip Jacks, Hammerheads and at times large Manta Rays.

Las Salinas is located about one hour 15 minutes by boat from Cabo San Lucas or one hour by boat from La Playita.  This spot is for beginners (30ft-45 ft).  Las Salinas offers a sunken Japanese fishing boat that attracts a large assortment of fish.

Blow Hole is for beginners to advanced divers (30ft-70ft) and is a 35 minute boat ride from Cabo San Lucas or 10 minutes from Chileno beach.  Rocky valleys present a variety of fish.

Chileno Bay is a 20 ft – 40ft dive and can be reached by tour boat in 35 minutes or by car in 15-20 minutes.  This spot offers sandy and rocky bottom diving with loads of turtles and tropical fish.  Night dives are also available at this site.

El Gavilan is an intermediate to advanced dive site with 70ft- 100 ft dives and about 35 minutes from Cabo San Lucas. This spot offers a rocky ledge leading into a canyon where groupers and larger fish are often sited.

Cabeza de Ballena is for beginners and is about a 25 minute boat ride.  The dive is through large boulders with lots
of fish.

Santa Maria Cave is for beginners and is a 35 minute boat ride or you can dive from the beach which is about 15 – 20 minutes from downtown Cabo.  The entrance to Santa Maria Canyon has a huge variety of fish that will eat right from your hand.

Lobster anyone?  Lorenzillo’s is our first choice!  This charming live lobster house with its nautical theme is a favorite among those who visit Cabo.  A sister restaurant to the original in Cancun, Lorenzillo’s features a fabulous sea-food heavy menu including yellowfin tuna, abalone carpaccio, panfried crab cakes and a variety of lobster dishes.  Lobster is offered more than a dozen ways with seating inside or under the stars on the deck.

 Lorenzillo’s is located  on Blvd. Lazaro Cardenas, Cabo San Lucas Marina and is open daily noon to 11:30 PM.  Major credit cards are accepted.  For reservations call: 105-0212
Lorenzillo’s has been awarded the Star Diamond Award by the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences and the Restaurant Enterprise Merit Award.  Make sure Lorenzillo’s is one of your stops while enjoying your Cabo vacation!

The brand new Cabo San Lucas Cultural Center, on the marina in downtown Cabo, officially opened last month to much fanfare.  The mayor, Mirna Xibille and Governor Narcisco Agundez led in the opening to 600 invited guests.  Governor Agundez had vowed to open the center before his term expired and this was accomplished with just three days to spare!  There is a plaque bearing the governor’s name that was unveiled during the ceremony.  In addition, a huge marlin statue was presented as a gift to the city from Mr. & Mrs. Marco Eherenberg, owners of Pisces Fishing Fleet and Pisces Real Estate.  The cultural center will house international cultural events and is expected to be an important tourist attraction.

We always enjoy reading the Gringo Gazette, one of Cabo’s local English newspapers.  The owner/editor Carrie Duncan is always creative as are the other contributing writers.  Next time you are in Cabo pick up a copy or go online.  Here’s the link:  http://www.gringogazette.tv/

In a recent issue, March 28, I found the following article and thought it would be fun to share.

Who Reads What?
And is anybody reading the Gringo Gazette?

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the U.S.

2.  The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the U.S.

3.  The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the U.S. and who are very good at crossword puzzles.

4.  USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the U.S. but don’t really understand The New York Times.  They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.

5.  The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn’t mind running the U.S., if they could find the time–and if they didn’t have to leave Southern California to do it.

6.  The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a poor job of it.

7.  The New York Daily News is read by people who aren’t too sure who’s running the U.S. and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

8.  The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who is running the U.S. as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

9.  The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but need the baseball scores.

10.  The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure if there is a United States or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for.  There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped, minority, feminist, atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens form any other country or galaxy, provided of course, that they are not Republicans.

11.  The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.

12.  The Gringo Gazette is read by people in Mexico who have recently caught a fish and need something to wrap it in.