Once again we awoke to a beautiful harbour, a beautiful day and breakfast. Our excursion for today was a jeep tour with some beach and snorkelling, stopping to see wild salt water crocodiles and some Mayan ruins. A full day. We disembarked and found our excursion group and headed for the jeeps. The setup was a guide in front, one in the rear and 8 jeeps in between. We proceeded to drive through the city (fun) and hit the highway across to the other side of the island. Once there, we headed down a road that paralleled the ocean.
Good morning Mexico. Another new country, although I said I would skip Mexico until it was safer than Iraq, or Afghanistan or at least downtown Winnipeg (joke people..just a joke). Didn’t have much choice though, our giant really expensive taxicab stopped here. We got off the ship and headed for our buses to the excursion. Lori had chosen the “Boat Blast”. A 45 minute bus ride to a beach where we drove speedboats out to a reef and snorkelled. Sounds great on paper, but in reality, not so much. I have driven a boat maybe 5 times, and have never snorkelled, and we were going to do this for basically the first time 2 miles out in the ocean. What could possibly go wrong. We’ll see as we progress. But first, the bus ride.
We got off the ship onto a stunningly beautiful cement pier, jutting out into the bay, put there by the Mexican government to entice cruise ships. Guess they bribed them as well cause it had all the charm of, well, I can’t think of anything, but it wasn’t nice.
Such a Beautiful piece of Concrete
From here we walked to the meeting point and got on our bus. I would have taken some pictures on the bus ride, but it would have looked like home to my Martensville friends. Flat, scrub and lots of rocks. Kind of surprised me as I thought the Yucatan was jungle.
