The day started rather calmly. Spencer barely beat me up (I got up at 9:00) and I found S and Mommy hangin out on the back deck relaxing in the morning sun. We’ll, M was relaxing. S was poking things with a stick. Shortly thereafter M left S telling me stories while she ducked out […]
The day started out kind-of slowly. Our flight wasn’t till after noon so we spent a somewhat normal morning – a combination of playing, packing, remembering “one last thing” and such. Eventually Glenda arrived and we loaded everything into the van. She drove us to the airport (Thanks Glenda!!!) and we checked in at the
The Marshall-Binghams arrived yesterday evening – driving from Oklahoma. Though it was quite late, Jesse still had the energy to totally humiliate Papa at the air-hockey table. Today was spent making final trip preparations, attending to last minute details of real life, and enjoying not being cooped up in a car. Among the baggage arriving
We were rudely awakened this morning by the alarm clock telling us it was near time to have our suitcases out in the hall so they could be loaded onto the bus while we were at breakfast. Breakfast was a rather hurried affair – though it needn’t have been, but there you go. We said
What an interesting day! We were scheduled for the 11:00 whale shark run. UnCruise uses a private vendor for these excursions. Shortly after breakfast the expedition leader (JP) announced that over night in Mexico, the rules had changed. Vendors were limited to 10 guests per run. We were scheduled for almost twice that per boat.
Today we returned to Espiritu Santo (the boat usually moves at night so at dawn you are in your new location for the day). You may remember Day 3 when we awoke to witness the call of the sea lion at dawn. Today we experienced those sea lions close up. Breakfast today was early as
We woke up this morning in the beautiful half-moon bay at the small island of San Francisco. The day’s activities included a guided nature walk in the morning and snorkeling in the afternoon. The nature walk was led by Jenny. She covered the whole range of topics – skeletal identification of beach finds, plants, geology,
We woke up this morning anchored off Isla Carmen. This morning after breakfast we went our separate ways. Cheryl had a massage at 8:45 and I joined a dozen other passengers at 9:00 for a guided snorkeling expedition. Our guide was Jenny from Boise (and biology major from College of Idaho). We donned our wetsuits
During the night the boat moved on to the island of Agua Verde. Today turned out to be bird day. Following breakfast we hung out until our appointed time for our skiff ride. We joined 9 other passengers in one of the ship’s skiffs along with a guide (Mike on the mic) and a driver
We were up at the crack of dawn – literally. We were out on deck in time to catch the sunrise over Isla Espiritu Santo to our starboard (right) and colonies of sea lions and various birds to our port (left). We spent a few (translation: “lots of”) minutes enjoying/photographing both before heading down to