We arrived in Cabo San Lucas on April 6. It was our earliest time into a port, our shortest time within a port, and we had to tender in. We decided not to necessarily set an alarm, but we wanted to head out as quickly as possible. When I had gone to bed the night before, I discovered that my phone wouldn't charge because it detected water. When I woke up the next morning, it still wouldn't charge, and it wouldn't even give me the water detection error either. I started to panic a bit. I plugged my iPad into the charging cable to test if it was working, and it didn't, so I thought maybe I just ruined the charging cable and my phone was fine. Either way, I headed into Cabo completely phone-less, which meant I was camera-less as well. For a photographer and family historian, this didn't set well with me, but what could I do? I took Brian's phone for part of the day so I could take a few pictures, like this one with the pool towel animals.
I really wanted to take a water taxi out to Lover's Beach and play on the beach there for a few hours. I had purchased these dry bags from Amazon to protect our stuff solely with this mission in mind. Michael was really excited about jumping out of a boat and walking to shore with his special bag--"We're going to storm the beach!" he said. When we got ashore, however, we were accosted with vendors trying to get us to book a tour with them, and we discovered that Lover's Beach was closed for the next three days. I was so disappointed! With our plans yanked out from under us, we stood in front of that lady, trying to decided what to do. I still wanted to take a boat out to see the Cabo Arch and Land's End, and while we were standing there in indecision, the lady trying to get us to book her tour talked herself down from $40 a person to $15 a person. We decided to go ahead and accept her $15 per person offer.
She led us to another dock, and we waited for our boat to come get us. Before long, we donned life jackets and we were off.
They called this a "Glass Bottom Boat" tour, but really it should have been called a "Glass window on the bottom boat tour" as there was only a small part of the boat's bottom that was glass. Still, we could see some cool fish, and we booked for lower than I almost booked online.
Here we are in front of Pelican Beach, apparently a great place for snorkeling. Our guide stopped here and gave us each a piece of bread to toss into the water for the fish. It helped us see them more in the window.
Lovers' Beach! Through those two rocks and lies Divorce Beach, which is on the Pacific Ocean. Lover's Beach is on the calmer Sea of Cortez.
Here's the Pirate Cave. Or just a hole within the rocks.
Where the Pacific meets the Sea of Cortez. Or nearly.
Here we are in front of the famous "El Arco" or The Arch or The Cabo Arch. We're in the Sea of Cortez; on the other side is the Pacific Ocean.
I tried to find names to all of these rock formations, and I think these ones are "The Friars", so named by John Steinbeck because he thought they looked like monks.
See the Sea Lions?
Here are Mom and Michael by Pelican Rock.
We swung over into the Pacific and got to see everything from the other side. I think this is actually the Pirate's Cave, rumored to have treasure inside, but it is too dangerous to go get.
The view of the arch from the Pacific side.
Here's Scooby Doo rock. From the other side, it looks even more like Scooby Doo.
Here's Mom and Michael in front of Lovers' Beach.
Here's our ship in the bay.
After we took our picture in the front of the boat by the arch, Gabe elected to stay up there with this guy from the other family that came with us. I think they were from Bountiful.
After we got back to land, we went over to look at this sea lion that was hanging out. We watched a kid feed him a fish.
I wanted to see if I could buy a new iPhone charging cable, so we wandered towards some of the shops to try to find one. While I was looking, a lady plopped a lizard onto my head, and before I knew it, I had one on my shoulder as well, and then I told her to put on on Gabe.
We checked out a few of the shops by the marina. Gabe and I got hats, Mom and Rachel got purses, Michael got nothing because he didn't have any money, Brian got a t-shirt, and I got a hoodie.
I was able to find a charging cable (yay!), and then we walked to the closest beach to the port. It was beautiful! Once again, we rented three chairs, but we also got an umbrella this time.
Mom got in the water this time. It was so lovely.
We swam and played for about an hour.
And then we walked back to the port to catch our tender. We really didn't want to be left here we knew we shouldn't miss our ship back home, so we gave ourselves plenty of time to tender back. We were also hungry. We grabbed a quick selfie on the dock
and then caught our tender back to the ship. Cabo was really efficient with their tendering. They used lots of smaller boats so nobody really had to wait very long before setting out.
We got lunch first thing, and then, ice cream. We were all super sandy from the beach, and wet, and it was a bit chillier than the previous days.
After eating and waiting for Brian to come back from his errand, mom, Rachel, Gabe and I decided to go to our rooms. I was quite anxious to shower because I was so cold. When we got to the elevators, Brian popped out of one. He wanted to go down the waterslides, so I ditched my plans in order to join him, making sure that my mom was good hanging with Gabe and Rachel for a bit. I was super cold (I know, I'm a broken record here) and a little grumpy about having to stand in the long line to go down the slide. I was worried about my phone and not the best company. In the midst of my discomfort, a whale started jumping in the water near the ship. It was magic! He put on a little show for us. He had a buddy join him, but she was a little more shy. Brian and I watched the whale keep jumping and jumping until we couldn't see him anymore. It made an already great day better, and I was no longer irritated about being cold in a windy line, and mostly let my worries over my phone go. Finally, we got to go down the slide. It was fun, but I wish I didn't get dizzy so easily these days.
Rachel and Gabe took showers right away, and I was trying to be patient waiting for my turn in the shower. I was cold! I was anxious to see if my phone would charge, so I went to the room to check the new cable, but I had no luck. I asked housekeeping if there was a way to get some rice to put my phone in and then learned I needed to order room service. It was really cool that they just brought one up without charging me, but it meant that I needed to stay in the room while everyone else went down to eat, and I didn't dare take a shower in case they showed up while I was in there. I just waited in our very well air-conditioned room until they arrived. I was also sad that I didn't have access to any of my books or a way to communicate with anyone. Brian took pity on my and paid for 24 hours of internet so that I could download the kindle app and a few books onto my iPad. I didn't know we could pay for internet for only one day. I felt better, but I was still cold and worried about my phone. When the rice arrived, I stuffed my phone inside and headed to go eat something.
We were all really sad to pull away from Cabo. We could have spent a few more hours there. Or days. It was just so beautiful, and we only got to see right around the port.
I don't remember what we did the rest of the night. I know I finally took a shower after the slide. I think this was the night we introduced Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza to Brian? We gathered in an empty table in the buffet area and played for a bit. It was fun. Michael ditched us for friends. I think Rachel, Brian, Mom and I hit up the comedy club while Gabe was in Camp Ocean. I happily read my book on my iPad when I was going to bed.
Best
Gabe: Beach, getting to go in the water
Rachel: The amazing water in the clear ocean
Michael: The boat tour, but it was still boring
Devri: Cabo, all of it. The beach, the boat ride. The whale jumping while in line for the slide back in the ship. The tender was the most efficient we've ever seen.
Brian: The beach in Cabo and the boat tour in Cabo.
Leta: Cabo, all of it. The woman who gave us the boat tour talking herself down in price.
Worst
Gabe:
Rachel: Not going to lover's beach
Michael: The beach because of chafing
Devri: Not being able to go to lover's beach (it was closed for spring break), and not being able to charge my phone (but now I'm setup on the iPad to read my book)
Brian: Leaving Cabo so quickly.
Leta: Leaving Cabo
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