Our
last port of call for this cruise. Our
plan was to meet Bill and Elaine after breakfast and go ashore. We had breakfast in the dining room and then
met the Cavagnaro’s on deck 5.
We
went ashore without any plans other than finding a nearby geocache that I hadn’t
found when we were here on a cruise a couple of years ago. We read the hint and a few previous logs and
followed the GPS to the area. The cache
was hidden in Bougainville bushes. The
clue was that it was in the middle of the bushes. We looked behind leaves and branches, being
careful of the thorns. We looked for a
while and a vendor from a nearby shop came and pointed out the area of the
bushes the cache was hidden in and indicated the approximate size of the
container. We looked more and didn’t
find it. The vendor came back and found
the container for us. It was a couple of
feet from where he had first indicated.
That isn’t surprising because many cachers don’t always but the
containers back exactly where they found them.
Over a period of time they migrate and often end up a good distance from
where the owner placed them. |
| The symbol of Puerto Vallarta |
We
walked back to where the taxi’s and tour vehicles were and engaged a driver
with a van to take us on a short tour of the area. Puerto Vallarta is a large city. The driver first took us to a famous church in the older section of
town. The church tower is topped by a
replica of the Queen of Spain’s
crown. From there we walked down to the
waterfront Malecon. This area has remodeled
since we were here in the 90’s. Like La
Paz they have put in statuary along the walk.
Puerto Vallarta has eliminated cars along most of the Malecon. We took a few pictures, including a statue
that is the location of a virtual cache.
After about 20 minutes we met our driver back near a seahorse statue
that is the symbol or logo of Puerto Vallarta. |
| Along the Malecon |
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| Steep, nah! |
The
driver showed us some old residential areas with narrow cobblestone streets
. We stopped for shopping at a silver
shop and a shop that sold tablecloths.
Puerto Vallarta was originally settled as a shipping point for silver
mined in the nearby mountains. We then
drove by a house that was bought by Richard Burton for Elizabeth Taylor in the
50’s while they were filming Night of the Iguana. We toured a very exclusive area in the hills south
of town that had great views. Returning
to the ship we drove through shopping areas frequented mostly by locals.
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| Liz Taylor's house on the left with a bridge to Richard Burton's house |
We
got back to the ship at about 2:30. We
went to the Lido deck and had hotdogs around the pool. It was hot and the time we finished we were
very hot and returned to our room to cool off. We met Ron and Bobbette and the
Cavagnaro’s at the Wheelhouse and visited until time to clean up for
dinner. Bobbette and Ron didn’t come to
dinner as Bobbette wasn’t feeling well.
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| The site of a virtual cache |
After
dinner we went to the Princess Theater for a comedy show by Al Katz. After that we went back to our room. Gerri read for a while and fell to
sleep. I was up for a while longer
before calling it a night.
Tomorrow
is the first day at sea returning to Los Angeles and is a formal night.
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