With a morning on board, I got in both trivia and bingo. OK but no prize on trivia and one number from winning bingo. So once again, no rewards. The afternoon tour of Cozumel started with a lot of tension. We realized that we were docked at some distance from the meeting point and would need to take a taxi. To get off the pier involved navigating a huge shopping complex with aggressive vendors and little by way of direction. Eventually we found a taxi queue and got to the other shopping centre, but couldn’t find the meeting spot. A very helpful guy from another company walked us to where we needed to be. There we met Fresia, a lovely young local woman, who was out guide for the day.
We were supposed to ride around in some kind of dune buggy (we saw lots of them), but hers wasn’t working, so she drove us in a Mustang convertible. The third person who was supposed to join us had cancelled, so it was a personal tour.
First stop, snorkelling off the beach. Not as interesting as Grand Cayman, but it was nice to float in the warm water and see fish and reef growth.
Then we drove to the other, less sheltered side of the island – the surf was quite something-- and stopped at St. Martin Beach for quesadillas and margaritas. Giant margaritas!
We told Fresia that we didn’t need any shopping or tequila stops, so she drove us around other parts of the island and then back to the pier where our ship was.
Since we knew about the shopping centre it was a quicker transit back. After a bit of rest, we dressed and went to dinner, where we shared a table with 5 other people. There was lots of talk and laughter and we were a bit late getting to the show in the theatre. It was very good, but mostly a repetition of the one we saw early in the cruise.
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