Day 5 - 9/22

Spray - Water or other liquid moving in a mass of dispersed droplets, as from a wave.

September 22, 2009

Since Lane & I don't snorkel, we decided to take a tour of the island of Cozumel. The tour took us from the west side of the island, where the ship docked, around to the east side of the island and back. So this is the Carribbean Sea. There were lovely white sand beaches, but it was mostly very rocky. The western side is the tourist side and that's where all the good beaches and resorts are. Since the eastern side is more rocky, it is very undeveloped. Our tour bus did find a nice beach area to stop for a little while.




The crystal clear waters of the Carribbean.

We also went on a tour of a museum-ish place called Discover Mexico. We watched a short video about Mexico, and then toured some gardens where they had little miniatures of the significant buildings in Mexico, including ruins, government buildings and cathedrals. The gardens were gorgeous, very tropical and jungle-y.

This is just one of the miniatures. There are more on Facebook in my Cruise 2009 photo album. We also got to go to a Tequila factory and participate in a tasting, but since we don't go for that sort of thing, we just wandered around.

Generally speaking, I didn't love Cozumel. It is really a place for beach goers and people who want to snorkel or scuba dive. The shopping area was too much like Tijuana or Ensenada. I don't know that I'm that interested in going back. There was one funny thing about the shopping. We all had tags on our shirts that said "Alex" (our tour guide's name) so we wouldn't get lost (hello kindergarten!). He told us as we were headed to the shopping area that merchants would tell us "Hey, Alex is my brother" so we would buy from them. He said he had no brothers, sisters, neighbors, etc that sold anything downtown, so just ignore that. Sure enough, several merchants shouted out to us, "Hey, Alex is my brother!" "Hey, Alex is my neighbor!" We got a bunch of tshirts downtown, and went back to the ship.