Photos of a holiday cruise in the Mexican Riviera. Above is our ship, the Oosterdam, and below the tenders being lowered to take passengers ashore at Cabo San Lucas.
Note the curvature of the earth on the distant horizon.Or is it just the distortion caused by my lousy camera lens?
Water taxis and glass-bottom boats share the marina at Cabo San Lucas with luxury ocean-going yachts from as far away as Seattle and the Cayman Islands.
Three cruise ships showed up almost simultaneously at each of the three ports of call. The other two were the Carnival Elation and the Norwegian Star (above and below). So there were close to six thousand tourists in town on each of the days we were in port. On the hull of the Norwegian Star can be seen the shadow of the twin stacks of our ship, the Oosterdam.
I call this photo "The Mazatlan greeters". The large musician figures on the pier are probably constructed of papier mache over a wire framework. They aren't as ominous as the live Mexican soldier brandishing an assault rifle as he stands in the shade between two of the figures. The guy in the red shirt and shorts on the left is a returning turista.
A powerboat speeds across the quiet waters of Mazatlan bay.
The promenade deck of the "Oosterdam" where I spent a couple of relaxing afternoons on a deck-chair with a good read at hand, even though there wasn't much reading done.
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