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| Los Arcos |
Before retiring last night I set an alarm for 5:30
AM. Gerri wanted to get a sunrise
picture. She got up with the alarm and went
on to the balcony. Unfortunately the
ships direction of travel put the sunrise ahead of us and the pictures weren’t
what she had hoped for.
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| Sunday Sunrise |
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| The end of Baja California |
We went to sleep for a while longer after the sunrise
photo session. When we looked out again
we could see the rugged coast line of Baja California, but had no idea exactly
where we were. We ordered our coffee and
breakfast.
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| Rounding the end of land |
At about 11 the end of land
at the tip of Baja California came into view.
We could see the resorts and homes on the Pacific Ocean side of
Cabo.
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| The Grand Princess |
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| A panorama from our mooring |
As we sailed into the bay we got a
good view of Cabo’s signature “Los Arcos.”
There we two other cruise ships already in port. The Grand Princess was there along with an
SOB (Some Other Brand.) Since this port
requires tenders, our ship moored outside the other two. That left a long distance for the tenders to
take us ashore.
We
waited to go to the tender queue up area, knowing that passengers with shore
excursions would be taken ashore first.
We left our cabin at 2:30 to go ashore.
On the way to the elevator we met people that were taking food to family
members already in the tender line. When
we got to the Piazza the line for tender tickets was outside the waiting area
and around the Piazza. The scuttle butt
was that the wait was about 3 hours.
This wait was attributed to the distance to the dock, and the heavy
traffic in the harbor making a lot of waves.
Since our only plan was to have dinner at Solomon’s Landing, we weren’t
in a hurry to get ashore.
We
spent some time in the Wheelhouse Lounge.
Before checking the tender line again, I went to the customer service
desk and exchanged Gerri’s cruse card.
Her card had become de-magnetized.
After getting some things from the room she met me at the tender check
in area. When we went to check in we
were told that Elite passengers board directly, bypassing the ticket system. DOH, another perk we had forgotten about.
The
sea was quite choppy when we boarded the tender. It took some assistance to get me and other
passengers on safely. The ride to the
dock wasn’t too bad but it was about 20 minutes. Of course it was calmer at the dock and
exiting the tender was easier. The walk to Solomon’s was longer than I remembered.
The restaurant was busy but we got a table with a fair view of the foot traffic
along the marina walk. Our first order
of business was to order guacamole and chips.
A waiter prepared the guacamole at our table and served it with chips
and pico de gallo. Gerri had been
looking forward to fish tacos, but they were not on the menu. Our waiter explained that they only served
fish tacos at lunch. Gerri convinced him
to ask the chef to make them just for her.
She asked for the tacos with hard shells and that the fish be grilled. As a backup she ordered a chili relleno. I ordered a combination plate with some of
everything. The fish tacos came with
soft tortillas and the fish was breaded.
The waiter insisted in taking the tacos off our bill, even though Gerri
tried to decline that gesture.
By
the time we finished eating it was dark.
In spite of my record of not finding many caches at night, we decided to
try to find the nearest one. It was .4
miles away and had been last found on the 3rd. The cache was off the main street and we were
surprised at how little foot traffic there was, considering there were 3 cruise
ships in the harbor. We found what was
described on the cache page, but had no luck finding the cache. The walk back seemed longer. Well it was further by the distance to the
tender dock.
The
queue for the tender was very long. We
took advantage of our Elite status to cut the line and board the tender without
waiting. The trip back to the ship wasn’t
as rough as the trip in. Both the other
ships had already left the harbor. We
were back on the ship at about 8:40. At
9:15 we went to the Explorer Lounge to watch the Liars Club.
We
called it a night at about 11 PM. I read
until about midnight.
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