Cabo San Lucas/Mexico

January 8, 2024 Cabo San Lucas

This time our ship actually anchored as planned and the tenders were used. I wasn't brought ashore until around 12 p.m.

There I looked for a provider of “whale watching” tours and quickly found what I was looking for. For an acceptable price I would be on the boat with a Mexican couple for an hour and a half. The boat even had a window through which you could look into the depths.

We made our way through the throng of boats into the open sea. Shortly afterwards we had our first sighting. Not a whale, but a marlin that made several jumps in the air about one meter high. An impressive sight, unfortunately too fast and unexpected for our cameras.

Then the actual whale watching began. We repeatedly saw the water fountains of whales, once a whale presented us with its tail fin. We didn't get any spectacular shots of the whales, but we did get some spectacular shots of the rocks and the pelicans.

After we returned I took a look at Cabo San Lucas. The city has a large marina and is entirely geared towards tourism. Lots of souvenir shops, bars, restaurants and pharmacies.

At one end of the riverside path I spotted several sea lions. A local asked me if I wanted to feed them and sold me a fish. Two women I knew from the ship agreed to film and photograph the event. So I went down a boat ramp to the sea lions. The largest of them came towards me expectantly, let me scratch him and got his fish and I was inspired by this encounter.

It was now after 2 p.m. and I was hungry. I chose a rustic restaurant and had shrimp cheviche with nachos. During the meal I saw two young men handling iguanas and looking for people who wanted to have their photos taken with the reptiles.

After leaving the restaurant, I found one of the men, had the iguana sit on my shoulder and take photos of us, paid the required fee and continued with the city tour.

Afterwards a tender took me back to the ship.

The concert of the evening was performed by “The Las Vegas Tenors”.