Day trip from Cabo to La Paz for the sea lions

[Illini_Fan]

All - looking for the collective SB wisdom

I plan on doing another Socorro trip in mid-May 2021 and want to do a dive (or two) with the sea lions near La Paz. Handful of questions:

- Is it possible to do this as a long day-trip from a Cabo hotel? If so, any recommended operators?
- If the day-trip approach isn't possible, I could plan on something like the following:

Fly into Cabo - take shuttle or transport to La Paz hotel
Dive with La Paz based shop for sea lions -- any recommendations?
Either spend a 2nd night in La Paz and head to Cabo the next morning (Socorro boat doesn't depart until evening) OR head to Cabo after the dives and spend a night in a Cabo hotel. I'm thinking I'd rather spend two nights in one hotel versus lugging my gear to two spots. Is an evening in La Paz worth the time?
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thanks

Tom

 

[ibj40]

We did this, more or less, when we went to Cabo in November 2017. We were staying locally and diving with Manta. They did a day trip that included transportation up to the La Paz marina, snorkeling with Whale Sharks, and then a one-tanker out at Los Islotes.

It was a long day on a six-pack boat, but weather might have contributed to that, with a pretty hefty North wind.

Coolest part, aside from the diving, was coming back through Todo Santos and stopping at the Hotel California for a beer.

Can't tell you anything about staying in La Paz, but we love wandering around the Cabo marina, plus lots of great places to eat in town.

 

[Illini_Fan]

We did this, more or less, when we went to Cabo in November 2017. We were staying locally and diving with Manta. They did a day trip that included transportation up to the La Paz marina, snorkeling with Whale Sharks, and then a one-tanker out at Los Islotes.
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Thank you -- good to know at least back then it was possible. I don't know if the whale sharks are "in season" in May, but I'll check out their website. I also asked Nautilus (the boat I've used / will be using for Socorro) if they have recommendations.

 

[ibj40]

Thank you -- good to know at least back then it was possible. I don't know if the whale sharks are "in season" in May, but I'll check out their website. I also asked Nautilus (the boat I've used / will be using for Socorro) if they have recommendations.

If you are lucky, maybe you get in a two-tanker at Los Islotes.

We did Whale Sharks off of Isla Mujeres previously, so the one or two Whale Sharks we saw at La Paz was a snoozer.

We could have easily skipped that hour or so, and headed out to dive.