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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
We woke up reasonably late this morning, took care of a bit of business involving the in-room safe, and headed out to the breakfast buffet. Suitably sated we repaired to the room to change into more appropriate clothing and went for a walk on the beach. The tide was coming in and the waves were
This is a “good news/bad news” thing. Because we only recently retuned from Christmas in Oklahoma there wasn’t really a need to clean house for the dog sitter. That was the good news. The bad news is that we were booked on the 6:00 AM flight to Seattle. Which means that the alarm was set
After a leisurly fairwell to Francesco’s Full English Breakfast We said good by to our friends at the Alhambra and toddled off to the tube stop. An hour later we were deposited at Hethrow where we did the airport thing. We had allowed ourselves 3 1/2 hours for that process so when it took less
Today was Tower of London day. We tubed over, picked up our “skip the line” tickets. (Of course, at that hour there was no line, but, hey. And made the recommended bee-line to the Crown Jewels These are the real jewels so they take guarding them very seriously. They also take a dim view of