Cabo marina strolling

Day 3  Sunday, February 4, 2018  Cabo San Lucas

Anchored in Cabo's bay, where we arrived at 11 am (an hour early due to an ill man who needed hospital care). Janet had been to Cabo before (time-share exchanges). We had a perfect-weather day. This was the only port of call where we did not schedule an excursion, instead wandering the marina for a few hours and then returning to the ship for the afternoon.

I was in the fitness room as the ship was slowly moving into Cabo Bay. I could see their famous rock arch as we glided by, which I realized later was a highlight tour for hundreds of locals promoting excursions. I was able to get photos as we departed the bay at dusk.

Since we weren't taking an excursion, we waited on board quite a while before tendering in. In this photo, the tenders were coming and going.

Janet is descending the stair into our tender.

 Our ship is anchored in the bay beyond the marina.

Once at the marina, we were besieged by vendors to take excursions. I took this photo to show the far side of the marina where we would soon be walking, and to show the pelicans on the little boat bow. Pelicans were everywhere, perched on boats.

On the far side of the marina, we enjoyed a beer to take in the nice sunny day. I paid in U.S. dollars, and the fellow had to run off somewhere to get change for me. Janet made a joke about him never coming back, but he did!

 And here are what we ordered. The Light was NOT mine!

We saw several sea lions in the marina, and in this photo, there are two of them. Kind of hard to see them among the pelicans, but they're there. A fisherman was tossing fish scraps.

On our way to the time-share where Janet had been, we passed the Baja Brewing Company with this funny statue of the donkey with the beer-bottle lure.

Hep me, hep me!

Janet's playmate was just outside the Fiesta Condos, where she had stayed before. It was behind security gates now, so we couldn't go in to see more of it.

We walked back to our pier via the street nearest the marina, and I loved this little cafe and all its decor.

Another sight on our walk was this display of a tequila factory. This photo and the next one represent the entire "artisanal" (traditional) tequila process: the agave plants are in the foreground, and the crushing wheel is in the center with a pina half on the rim.

 In the back right is the brick cooking oven. Next to it, back center, are the wooden fermentation tanks. A copper line leads from them to the bottom of the steam copper pot still (behind the stone wheel). Then the copper line leaves from the top of the still to the wooden condensation tank in the left of the photo.

In the far back of both of the previous pictures is this stack of barrels to age the finished tequila. You cannot see them too well in the picture, but each barrel has the name of a famous brand. Herradura, Don Julio, Jose Cuervo, 1800 (the brand on board our ship that we drank), and more!

Janet and I took the tender back to the ship and were back on board by 1 pm. We had lunch at O'Sheehan's, we took a hot tub, and then I took a nap.

Here's Janet while we relaxed at the 13th-level Bier Garten bar while the Super Bowl was on the TV. The ship made a big deal about the Super Bowl, but we did not watch much of it. For the record, Philly won its 1st SB, beating New England 41-33.

Beautiful scenery as we departed. There's the arch where so many excursion boats went with tourists. In fact,

...look at all of them there late in the day.

Nothing like a sunset over the Pacific Ocean, as we left Cabo Bay behind. That evening, we enjoyed listening to Hans the piano player, eating dinner in the Aqua Main Dining Room (much faster service than in the Versailles), and watching the comedian in the theater. She had orange hair and we thought she was pretty hilarious (earlier she had been in the elevator with us and looked pretty odd with her hair and clothes).