Cabo San Lucas Panama Canal 11

Wednesday Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

7 am, Safely Anchored in San Lucas Bay.

12 noon E Light breeze, clear skies, very smooth seas

(it didn’t feel like "smooth seas"
when we were trying to step from the ship to the tender),

79 degrees F. 

Up on Deck 6 since 6,

ostensibly to walk, 

                                                    but mainly took pictures of the sunrise

and fishing boats swarming around like flies.

Jerry said they waited for the boom and flare

then took off like Olympic racers.

There is evidently a fishing curfew.

By sheer coincidence,

we got on the same tender as Jerry and Lana Gale.

DeRay commented to the people he was sitting by,

“There are over 1800 people on this ship;

14 tenders holding 140 people each

and my wife, without any planning,

is sitting 6 feet from her brother.”

We didn’t see them again until lunch back on the ship.

We bought vanilla, a scarf

(I went in with a total stranger

because they were 2 for $12 or $7 each.

“Just think, we each saved a whole dollar!”),

little Mexican hats for our Christmas garland

and a little flute like thing for no good reason.

Catch the gold man (Captain Hook) in the background.  A real person--who wanted a tip!

The ship was anchored way out,

necessitating a very long tender ride in.

Tenders are really lifeboats

but they call them tenders so people don’t panic.

When we got back to ship,

DeRay and Ed watched them load the tenders.

Raising the lifeboat.

I watched the last one, being official photographer and all.

Leaving Cabo at 3:30.

Goodbye forever.

(This is the 4^th time this year we’ve been to Cabo.

When we came in January or was it February by now,

we had two days planned in Cabo,

going out to sea during the night

so they could open their casino and shops;

then we had to return after our last day

to drop off someone for a medical emergency;

and this time makes 4!)

I observed the beach with fondness Brent and I walked on.

He made everything more fun.

Daredevil.

San Diego here we come!

Ed’s starting to talk about how good it will feel to get home.

3:24 pm Departing San Lucas Bay bound for San Diego