June 25, 2015, Thursday, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

From our balcony as we anchored in Cabo.

Another view of Cabo

We went on the Clear bottom kayak and snorkel tour which started at noon.  I spent the morning watching the shores of Mexico as we sailed by, and catching up on blogs.

I turned in our tour tickets and got #3 bus passes.  Doug and Kathy Hull were doing kayaks as well but their number was #1.  A nice lady beside me said she had #3 and they were going on the camel ride.  Luckily she told me or we would have gone for a camel ride in bathing suits and snorkel gear.

Luckily one of our fellow passengers took this photo of the famous arch.  Our kayaks went near, but not through it.  We were one of many tours viewing this landmark.

We had to sign a waiver before leaving the pier.  Kathy warned us that anyone over 70 was not allowed to go, so we became 69 years old.  At the beach, there were two rows of tandem kayaks, all yellow!  I didn't take my camera so I have no photos.  We had an easy 1/2 hour paddle before we took a little break at the future site for our snorkeling.  But we headed on towards the point, which is also where the famous arch is located.  It is in a little bay and the waters there were surging from the surf and currents.  No one went through the arch, nor were we allowed to do that.  I wouldn't begin to try, even if I were really 69.  We headed back to the big rock with buoys around it where we tied up all the kayaks to the ropes and slipped off our boats to snorkel.  The fish were all right next to the big rock.  Kids were jumping off the top of it all the time, but on the other side.  there were really big plate sized silver fish with beautiful yellow fins and tails in schools.  Then we saw several other different fish.  I saw a very large trumpet fish, a parrot fish, a humuhumunukunukuapuapa and a beautiful purple fish with green spots in a row down the middle.  the coral was sort of purple and fan shaped.  It was hard to believe that there were so many fish at such a popular place to swim and snorkel.  We even saw scuba divers below us.

When we returned, we just went right to the ship and the spa and thallasotherapy pool.  I was beat.

We came back to shore about 5:00pm looking for a virgin marguarita and nachos with real avocado.  Senor Frogs bar, whose sign only said "Frogs" due to the first part falling off in the hurricane last year, closed up!  So we stopped at another bar where Karen and her daughter were having drinks.  We had our wish.

Nachos

Virgin margueritas in my new yellow hat

Emil Zapata and I, wearing my new yellow scarf and hat.

Senor David wearing a very heavy, hard, Mexican hat

Tom and Deanna Jones enjoying life, as usual.

As we walked down the beach by the tour operators looking for business, one of them said we looked like tourists!  Many of our fellow passengers went on the tequila tasting tour.  Some of them came back very late at 8:00pm on our tender.  It was a very roudy crowd.  It turns out the four David was having fun with were the Platters who were coming onboard for their shows.  There were tour boats playing party music all over the harbor, most of them fairly crowded and you could tell they had also been tequila tasting. Tom Jones told another story about how he and a buddy went to the officer's club and they weren't 21, but they were served tequila and decided to drink as much as they could until one of them couldn't.  He said he could not stand the smell of tequila for 5 years afterwards.

Pelicans on the pier.  Another guest told her husband to look at the penguins

Sunset from the tender

Cabo was hit by a hurricane about a year ago.  There was a lot of damage, mostly in the San Jose Cabo area, further South.  Everyone who had been here more than 15 years ago, like us, remarked at how built up it was, but also clean and presentable.  We all wished to come back someday.  All day long we saw parasailers, jetboats, swimmers and snorklers, glass bottom boat tours, regular boat tours, deep sea fishing boats with marlin flags flying, and ships with sails like pirate ships, like the one above, and just plain party boats.

We went directly to trivia.  It was a four way tie for first place!  David went to hear Vladimir play the piano, the entertainment for this evening.  I said it would be much nicer to fall asleep listening to Vlad play piano than reading in our room.  David will get on a bus and fall asleep.  He will fall asleep in any venue where someone is speaking.  He will guaranteed fall asleep at a movie or concert.  He will fall asleep only half the time if it is loud music playing and the performer asks for audience participation.  Now I know why so many of our shows ask us to clap or sing along.  They want to keep us awake.

News from the world.  The Dow Jones is below 18,000 again due to a failed Greek debt deal.  One Euro =$1.12.  The Boston marathon bomber was sentenced and said he was sorry for the attack.  Patient awarded $500,000.00 for being mocked.  France demands answers on US spying.  It is all so useless to worry about when on a world cruise.  We have more important things, such as whether or not to go to the art class or napkin folding tomorroww at 10:00am.  No doubt it will be art because it is zen doodling.  This looks like fun - no worries about being a great artist.  You just have to draw any old line and then another and make lots of connecting lines or doodles in an amongst the other lines.  Yeah.