The first place we visit after leaving San Diego is Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
After we left San Diego in the evening, we have 'sailed' one night, the day
after (called a sea day) and another night.
The
nice bay of Cabo San Lucas, where we arrived
early in the morning. You can see one of the
other ships of Royal Caribbean, the 'Vision of
the Seas', which was doing another cruise but
visited Cabo San Lucas at the same day.
Depending
on the place you visit, the ship is docked
somewhere in the harbour or on a pier, or the
ship is anchoring in the bay, for example when
the harbour is too small or shallow for such a
large ship. In that case 'tenders' will be used,
relatively small boats, which transfer the
cruise ship passengers from the ship to the
shore and back.
Now you can see how big a
cruise ship is.
Every
cruise ship has some special life boats that can
also be used as tender boats. In Cabo San Lucas
the local port authority also provides their own
tender boats, like this one.
These
are life boat tenders from the cruise ship, in
the harbour of Cabo San Lucas.
Cabo
San Lucas is situated on the end of the Baja
California peninsula. There are approximately
40,000 people in Cabo San Lucas.
Most
activities are centered around the harbour.
There are shops and beaches nearby and you can
take small or large boats to go fishing or to do
some sightseeing.
We do a
short excursion: a 1,5 hour boat trip along the
beautiful coast. These are some impressive rock
formations.
Between
several of those rock formations there are some
nice but small beaches.
Sea
lions like to lie on the rocks and watch all the
tourists.
There's
our ship! We've sailed around the large rock
formations and have a view of the cruise ship,
as if it's grounded on the beach.
After
the boat trip excursion we do some shopping and
visit the beach with its golden sand. It gives
us a view of all the water activities, our
cruise ship 'Legend of the Seas' and her sister
ship 'Vision of the Seas'.
