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Opey
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Best Beaches in Mexico (Baja included!)
Here is a picture of the most visited beaches in Mexico.
From Baja there are 3 different locations recommended, two from Cabo San Lucas and One from La Paz.
[Edited on 5-5-2014 by Opey]
[Edited on 5-9-2014 by Opey]
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BajaBlanca
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Love the ones we have been to!
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Zicatela is the BEST beach in Mex. just don't turn your back on the ocean!
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chippy
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Thatīs funny Playa de la ropa making the list. Zihuas bay is the most polluted in all of Mexico.
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Perhaps the greatest beach location in the world is right there at Playa Norte on Isla Mujeres. Once called The Avalon Reef Hotel, it is under new
ownership and is now called The Mia Reef Hotel. Incredible location. My regret is that when the changed ownership, they made it an all-inclusive.
However, a simple ten minute walk from the hotel finds you on the mains drag, which is pedestrian only and has dozens of restaurants of all types,
from Cuban to Thai and everything in between. It's a party every night on the main drag.
Personally, the only reason we go to Cancun is to stay on Isla Mujeres.
What is also convenient is that you can get a rental car from virtually any agency on the mainland, to use to tour all of Yucatan, and they have very
affordable valet parking at the ferry terminal. You do not need a car on Isla.
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David K
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The laughing icon at the bottom of this new Nomad's post has me wondering what Opey is trying to convey? Are the best beaches always in a city as the
map shows? That would make me laugh too!
Here is my pick for best beach (north and south)...
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ehall
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The best beach is the one you need a good 4 wheel drive to get to and you get there and no one else is around for miles.
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I gotta agree with the map, to me anyway, the caribbean beaches of cancun are hard to beat!
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by ehall
The best beach is the one you need a good 4 wheel drive to get to and you get there and no one else is around for miles. |
Often true... and the feeling of security when there is that 4WD limiter is nice... Banditos don't off road to commit crime... they choose easy prey
on a highway! Alfonsina's is now behind a security gate!
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Why is it that some people think there are Banditos at every turn when there is easy access. I haven't found that to be the case, in fact the
shadiest looking characters were usually in the middle of nowhere. Am I just lucky, or have others found these on-road banditos?
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Bajahowodd
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
The laughing icon at the bottom of this new Nomad's post has me wondering what Opey is trying to convey? Are the best beaches always in a city as the
map shows? That would make me laugh too!
Here is my pick for best beach (north and south)...
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Best beach for a sand crab maybe. Your beach appears to be quite barren. Maybe you ought to take your wife to some places outside the North American
continent. You would probably be amazed at the bevy of gorgeous beaches all around the world.
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I have been to 9 out of 11 (including David K's) of them. 
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David K
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But you see howodd, that is excatly the way we like the beach... all sand, warm water, no people except for family, friends and Nomads. I can't drive
to Bora Bora and set up a sun canopy there for a 3 day weekend... but I can in any Northern Baja beach.
Different beaches have different charms and to each his own...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by ehall
The best beach is the one you need a good 4 wheel drive to get to and you get there and no one else is around for miles. |
Wrong. A much better one is one you have to take a boat to.
Step it up bro.
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JZ
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
But you see howodd, that is excatly the way we like the beach... all sand, warm water, no people except for family, friends and Nomads. I can't drive
to Bora Bora and set up a sun canopy there for a 3 day weekend... but I can in any Northern Baja beach.
Different beaches have different charms and to each his own... |
I think the beaches around and south of San Felipe are pretty ugly. To barren as howodd mentions. Too exposed to the wind. The better beaches have
more mountains and/or in bays.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JZ
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
But you see howodd, that is excatly the way we like the beach... all sand, warm water, no people except for family, friends and Nomads. I can't drive
to Bora Bora and set up a sun canopy there for a 3 day weekend... but I can in any Northern Baja beach.
Different beaches have different charms and to each his own... |
I think the beaches around and south of San Felipe are pretty ugly. To barren as howodd mentions. Too exposed to the wind. The better beaches have
more mountains and/or in bays.
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For sure I have been blown off Shell Island more than once, but to have a beach as nice with mountains next to would either require a boat to get to
or is just a bit far for a a trip of less than a week.
Baja has many choices!
I think the beach at Guadalupe (Remedios) Bay may be just such a perfect beach? BajaNomad (Doug) camps there and posted some really nice photos of it.
Gonzaga Bay was a great beach, and near Punta Final you have a mountain behind it.
Bahia Concepcion has some real neat tropical beaches... but highway noise and crowds of people can affect your tranquility there.
Punta San Francisquito has a great beach... but wind can hit you there... same st San Rafael (Pancho's) beach... Las Animas, etc.
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ehall
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JZ
| Quote: | Originally posted by ehall
The best beach is the one you need a good 4 wheel drive to get to and you get there and no one else is around for miles. |
Wrong. A much better one is one you have to take a boat to.
Step it up bro. |
Oh ya, you are definitely correct on that. I just don't have a boat.
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My choice, only available to boats, or to walk to, is the tiny beach at the far southeast end of BOLA with a yacht wreck on it, picture recently
posted on this NOMADS board. (Trip photos--Gonzaga to BOLA)
Brilliant white granitic sand, fairly steep incline into the water for excellent swimming, very clear warm water but no waves, and seldom any wind,
backed by very close rugged big mountains, and we have always (so far) had it all to ourselves. Caught a lot of Sierra off that beach, too.
Also, between BOLA and Animas Bay are several excellent southeast facing beaches/coves, but you cannot drive to any of them.
Barry
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This one on the Pacific side....all yours for surfing, sunbathing au natural, or just relaxing without a crowd. A crowd here is...3.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
My choice, only available to boats, or to walk to, is the tiny beach at the far southeast end of BOLA with a yacht wreck on it, picture recently
posted on this NOMADS board. (Trip photos--Gonzaga to BOLA)
Brilliant white granitic sand, fairly steep incline into the water for excellent swimming, very clear warm water but no waves, and seldom any wind,
backed by very close rugged big mountains, and we have always (so far) had it all to ourselves. Caught a lot of Sierra off that beach, too.
Also, between BOLA and Animas Bay are several excellent southeast facing beaches/coves, but you cannot drive to any of them.
Barry
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