This was a day we’d planned as an “us” day, without a lot of coordination and almost no “touristy” activity. When in Cabo — we go to The Sand Bar.
It was a beautiful day — the only thing I’d have liked was just a bit more breeze.
Here’s the actual cats 🙂
Tenders Ashore
Cabo San Lucas is the first place we had ever tendered ashore, during our 2022 trip on Encore. Since every ship has to tender, the locals have this down to a science.
We use Cabo Shuttle to go back and forth from the tender port to the Sand Bar. We’ve never had anything but a good experience from them…and they upgraded from vans to Suburbans for these trips in the three years since we were here last.
I didn’t know this: Two Carnival Ships do not sport the iconic whale tail funnel
One of them, Carnival Firenze, was in port with us. They arrived while we were having our massages and I first saw them at lunch. The ship funnel sports the Costa Cruise Line livery, which keeps that part of its heritage alive. The Firenze and a sister ship were purchased from Costa and have kept their Italian decor and amenities rather than being refitted to match the rest of the Carnival fleet.
I am glad for the 200MP mode in my phone camera (Galaxy S25 Ultra). I think we were a mile and a half or so line of sight from the deck of the Sand Bar to the ship….
I took a 10x zoom photo at 200MP and then zoomed it in further to find our room. It’s on the left hand side of the circled pair.
Lunch and a little Fan
Back on Board: Dinner at La Cucina
I won’t do a detailed review this time. I, being a creature of habit, got the same dishes as Monday night…and I’m glad I had the Pork Marsala on Monday, because I’d have thoroughly planned the tase of the dish last night. It had what tasted and felt like a layer of sea salt between the pork pieces, and was not a pleasurable entree.
Roxan did pick some different dishes…and we got the desserts we forgot to photo on Monday.
In spite of the taste of the entree, La Cucina has still been the best experience aboard. It’ll show up again in my Cruise Heros post — but a preview: it’s been a struggle to come up with cruise heroes this sailing. Not that there has been anything at all that’s been objectively bad. There have just not been any real “wow” moments, and for that I am sad. A solid “meets expectations,” 3-of-5 scale on the quarterly review, for those who live in the corporate world.
I do have a high-level review of the entertainment from tonight…or you can skip that (I kind of wish we had, except for the very end).
View from Deck 7 aft as we make 20+ knots toward San Diego
