Day 22 Tuesday 27th January 2015 Whale watching in the Pacific Ocean

This morning we arrived in beautiful Cabo San Lucas between Mexico’s Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean. We went ashore in tenders which felt very exciting as we got to feel the full effect of the waves, but only for about 10 minutes. These are the little lifeboats attached to the cruise ship underneath our balcony, and also on the starboard side.

 Once ashore we spent a sunny morning chatting first of all in person to the two entertainers from the last two nights in the Palladium – singer Peter Howarth (Hollies) and saxophonist Julian Smith (BGT’s runner up to Diversity and Susan Boyle).

Then we tried again with Skype to reach our “bairns” but made do with messenger as the wi-fi was, well, intermittent. For lunch we were off the ship so we had fish tacos with guacamole and salsa in a different restaurant.  Then came a two hour boat trip with refreshments and very satisfactory whale watching, particularly a family of hump backed whales

We got back to our cabin at around 5 after returning in the last tender for the sail away. We have started looking through our pictures short videos from the excursion. Hopefully we will soon find a piece of video that conveys all the joy of seeing these enormous creatures in the flesh! There were lots of sharp intakes of breath and ooooh, ahhhhh-ing going on. Quite emotional really. Very very grateful again today.

So today there were no art, dance or yoga classes and no deck walking on port days, but we now have another imaginary tick on the imaginary bucket list for “Whale watching on the Pacific!”

Tonight’s dinner was also a Mexican themed chilli with rice, beans and more guacamole – fiery hot and exceedingly satisfying. And in the theatre tonight Will Martin (link to a You tube clip) from New Zealand, described as “crossover” which I believe means combines classics and rock/pop vocals and piano.  He was very, very good. The standard of performances in the evenings is high now.

Bye for now.