Our third and final day in Port was in Cabo San Lucas. We booked a 2 hour dolphin encounter to start the day off. We had to ride the ferry from the ship to the shore since it is too shallow for the cruise ship to pull all the way up to the dock.
We met up with our excursion leader and he told us to wait under this canopy until they were ready to go.
Then we walked through the town past all of the people trying to sell us goods and rides for the day to the dolphin enclosure. Honestly, we did a lot of waiting around without even being able to see the dolphins or the pool where we would meet them. We had to remove everything except our swimsuits and a lifejacket. This included jewelry, hairbands, watches, etc. We almost had to leave Ashley behind because she refused to take off her necklace. We decided not to force her to remove her ponytail, too, after it was such a struggle to get her necklace off of her neck. We were finally led up to the pool after all of our belongings were stowed, including our cameras. Yes, this was another excursion with a professional photographer to capture the experience for us (which also included a hefty price tag at the end). The 20 or so people on our excursion were split into 2 groups. We were with a different trainer and dolphin than Brian and Maryn's family. We had 2 ladies added to the group with our family. The encounter was all that we had expected. We had lots of opportunities to touch our dolphin (named Lokai, or something like that). We also each had opportunities to get in the water with the dolphin to dance with him, hug him, and get a kiss from him. We also got to stand on the side of the pool and have him give us each a high five. And we also had a water fight with him, which he won. LOL. It was really cool and we learned a lot about dolphins during the experience. One interesting fact is that dolphins are really soft because they shed their skin like every 2 hours. It must come off in little pieces because I certainly have never seen a dolphin skin floating by in the ocean. We had considered buying this photo package since we passed on the last one until we heard that it would be over $400 to have our pictures. We quickly told them no thank you and moved on. They tried to talk us into just the pictures of the kids for like $350, but we still were not interested. We don't have any photos of the experience (except our memories). We really enjoyed it, though.
After we were done with the dolphins, we walked through the town to a public beach. We had brought some snorkels to try out in the water. The kids did not last very long with their snorkels, though. We overlooked lifejackets, so they couldn't go very far out. The adults tried it out after the kids were done.
The kids played on the beach in the sand.
Most of us were not able to see very much sea life with the snorkels. I swam all the way along the deepest part of the water that we could swim towards the rocks at the side of the beach and I actually saw quite a few different kinds of fish, especially over by the rocks.
After the beach, we walked through town and got some more souvenirs on our way back to the ferry. We also saw a lot of sea life on the shore. They were obviously not scared of people.
That is a huge fish hanging behind Tyler in the picture below.
We took these pictures right before getting on the ferry.
As we were heading out of port a couple of hours later, we were out on the pool deck. We never made it out to the famous arco in Cabo while we were there, so we got a look at it as our cruise ship passed by.
We really enjoyed our cruise and it didn't even get the kids too far behind in school, being out for a week. We really missed having Alyssa there with us. She would have loved all of the beach time, warm weather, adventures, and tagalog speaking (LOL).
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