Boat tours on Banderas Bay,
from someone who grew up on it.
Lucio Martínez was born and raised in Puerto Vallarta and has spent his life on Banderas Bay. Lucid Adventures is how he shares it — small trips, real local knowledge, and the Vallarta most visitors never see.
Puerto Vallarta, the way a local knows it.
Lucid Adventures is Lucio Martínez's Puerto Vallarta — the one he grew up in. His family put down roots here almost seventy years ago, so the bay isn't a destination to him; it's home. He's twenty-three, and he's spent all of it on the water — chasing waves and a love of the sea that started when he was a kid.
Lucio is a waterman first. He freedives, surfs, spearfishes, wakesurfs, snorkels, and hikes the trails above the coves — the same experiences Lucid runs today are the ones he does on his own days off.
Working in tours, he found what he loves most: showing people places they’d never find on their own. So he started Lucid Adventures to share the Vallarta he knows — not the postcard version, but the one the locals live. This year he put his own boat in the water for it: a lancha he named La Fiera.
That's the whole idea. When you go out with Lucid, you see Banderas Bay the way Lucio does: as someone who has known it his entire life.
One of Mexico’s great bays — warm, sheltered, and full of life.
Sheltered by the Sierra Madre, Banderas Bay stays calm and warm most of the year — with protected reefs to snorkel and humpback whales every winter.
Humpback whales migrate into the bay to calve and mate every winter.
Los Arcos and Islas Marietas are protected areas — we visit them with care.
We cast off from Marina Vallarta, La Cruz de Huanacaxtle and Los Muertos.
Snorkel, freedive, fish, surf, hike — or build your own day on the water.
Ready to explore? See our tours.
Pick a published itinerary or tell us what kind of day you want and we'll build it from scratch. Either way, you ride with someone who knows the bay by heart.