Baja Mexico Cruise, Day 2

Day 2: Santa Catalina Island

One of the best things about the group we traveled with was that all of us were punctual. Can I tell you how nice that was? Not having to wait on anyone, setting a time and having everyone show up? I am pretty anal when it comes to time, so this was a happy little detail. 

Our first port was Santa Catalina Island off the coast of LA. At first I kind of stuck up my nose at going to this port because I thought Blake and I had already been here before. Apparently not, because as I saw the scenery, nothing looked familiar. I was getting Catalina Island confused with Coronado Island that is off the coast of San Diego (where Blake and I went almost 10 years ago). So we were happy that we were going someplace new after all. And much to our surprise, this ended up being the funnest day--and we took a ton of pictures.

First, Catalina doesn't have a dock big enough to accommodate a cruise ship, so we had to anchor in the ocean and have these tender boats ferry us back and forth. We saw tons of dolphins and seals doing this--it was awesome.

on the tender boats--it was a little chilly at 7:30am

Watching seals in the harbor

dolphins

pelicans

 Since the only access to the island is by boat, there is only one gas station on the island and gas is over $6.00 a gallon. To compensate for this, all the locals drive golf carts around the island. We even saw a FedEx golf cart. We found a golf cart rental place, got a map of the island and off we went on our adventures.

While taking pictures at this spot, I dropped our camera case down this rocky ledge and into the ocean. I would have just called it a loss, but Blake scurried down and was determined to save it.

Morgan, Colby, Blake, and Blake

Melanie, Liz, Courtney, Sylvia

We saw a small, about 3 ft long, shark swimming along the coast

There were tons of beautiful overlooks that we stopped at to take pictures

our sweet rides

We stopped at a place that was called a "botanical garden", but really it ended up being just a bunch of cacti

my skirt is wet from Blake's dip in the ocean

 Because the botanical garden turned out to be kind of a bust, we took silly pictures instead

 Then, we continued on our drive around the island.

Our last stop was to the beach

We headed back to the ship for a meal

Blake and his two ice cream cones

 Then we played on the waterslide

 A seal that swam right by the boat:

Dinner that night: lobster and prime rib

 After dinner we decided to do some Karaoke and had a blast. Blake got hit on by some cougars

 On even got a little fresh and went for a butt grab

Blake dancing with older lady friends

The boys doing their thing

The girls' turn

Blake as Johnny Cash

The whole night was really fun and I don't think I have ever laughed so hard in my life!

Good Night!