After boarding the ship, Princess added a new excursion. A “Thriller” boat ride. We’ve done this in Aruba and Grand Cayman, but this one was a little different. The boat was made for rivers, not the open ocean. Captain Bill took eight of us (a couple from Oregon who’d gone repelling from trees the day before, Richard our colorful character and his wife from Seattle, a rattlesnake aficionado from Los Alamos, New Mexico and his son who lives in Seattle, and us) up a local salt-water river. We rode the waves, did spins (lost my visor on one) and nose-dives - sudden stops which cause the boat to be damn near consumed with water. As the ad said - “you will get wet”
The river excursion was more of a nature ride. We went threw the mangrove trees, saw egrets, blue herons, osprey, frigates, pelicans and lots of rusted out old boats. On the way back, Bill cruised over by Pelican Island where our local guide Cristobal threw out fish for the will pelicans and frigates. Frigates are the black sea gulls I mentioned in yesterday’s blog entry. The pelican would almost come take them out of his hand.
Then Bill picked up a photographer friend, brought us all mini Pacificos and took us on an extra ride around Mazatlan’s lighthouse, some of the grottos in the rocks and out into the Pacific where we saw sea lions both on rocks and in the water, and found out why the boat wasn‘t made for open sea - bumpy. This was all so his friend could take pictures, but we benefited as well. Then it was back to the ship for a nap before dinner and a sauna for Lark.
Other than that, Mazatlan is a port city with all that goes with that. Hyundai anyone?
Dinner in the Santa Fe Dining Room - very loud, rude lady with a voice that would peel paint was “visiting” 2 tables over. We couldn’t even hear our waiter. He was cool. When I said all I could hear was her, he just talked louder. You’d think she’d get the message, but no….clueless. Other the other side of us was a couple from Vancouver, BC who looked like Larry Poaster (my former Director) and Barbara Bush. Very nice and have sailed 13 times.
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