Tuesday 27th January- Cabo San Lucas

We arrived just after 0730 and moored off the city and over the next hour the tenders were ferrying the tour passengers over to the wharf to join their tours.

We on the other hand had a late breakfast and decided to wait until about 10.00 before we made a move to go and get a tender which was quite easy as we could jump the queue. We arrived in the Port area and their lots of American here on holiday by the sound of the accents and clearly some were getting ready  to have a few beers and watch some games which were listed fort all to see. In one place there was a choice of at least five games with many TV’s all around the room. We continued our walk along and around the very large port area being accosted every few minutes with people selling silver bracelets, hats and Cuban cigars.

In the main shopping centre there was an amazing amount of Chemists selling what we know as in Uk as restricted drugs including antibiotics and Viagra. It was now getting very warm and so we found a quiet little bar come restaurant where we were the only customers and could use their Wifi without any problems just to pick up email. We had tried earlier in another location but so many boat passengers using the system had slowed it right down to an unusable status.

We stayed in this little bar as Trip advisor had given it a clean account and although the menu was small the food was very good. It was rather hot to having a large meal which we had originally intended was not going to be possible.

By 2.30 the sun was beating down and were about 1.5 miles from where we get the tender and with so many passengers going to use this service we decided to go back early and so by 3.30 we were back on board and just in time to hear a live commentary of the last 15 minutes of the Chelsea vs Liverpool game which thank heavens CFC won by aggregate 2-1

The rest of the afternoon we took it easy and will go to the buffet for dinner tonight.

On the way out of the harbour we saw a number of whales tossing their tails and blowing great spouts on spray in to the air. It was a little too dark fort an effective photo so did not bother but watched them through the binoculars.

Didn't fancy any of the shows and so went back to the cabin to watch a film called ‘The Hurt Locker’ which is an excellent film portraying an American soldiers life in Iraq, whether it’s a true reflection of events only others can tell.

Now we have two sea days ahead before reaching San Francisco and I think for us it will feel like the end of a school year when they open the gates!