Day 5 Costa Maya, Mexico

Today was a four mile day and not quite as windy. Did a few laps with Tammy and Kim and then it was off to take a shower and head down to breakfast.

On my way to the Red Sail caught another beautiful sunrise.


Today we sat on the port side of the ship and we were glad that we did. Saw this rainbow spanning between two clouds plus we were able to watch the ship pull into Costa Maya.

Costa Maya pier, built just for the cruise ships. Always amazes me how easy the Captain makes it seem to just pull right up to the pier.

Armed guards to keep us safe, not sure from what but they were there.

These were the only buildings we saw for miles in either direction. It was a very nice area for us tourists.

You should see this in the afternoon when we got back from our excursion, wall-to-wall people. I didn't think to get a picture then.

They are just coming out of their dry season, so everything is kind of dried up and brittle but there was no litter anywhere. Such a change from yesterday.

The Home Depot of this little town, Dan would have liked to stopped in just to see what they had.

Gas Station where the gas was $6.00 for whatever their measure was, not sure. But $6.00 seems very high.

This was the same road we were on when we went to Tulum in Cozumel, just much further south.

All the houses had such clean surrounding areas.

And most had a satellite dish.

A couple little stores grouped together.

The little town we visited before the small ruins we saw today.

This is the town of Limones and their Mayan ruins. Couldn't compare with Tulum but still very interesting to see.

Then we were on to the main portion of our tour, a Mayan Homestead or at least that is what I'm calling it.

Francisco our tour guide made a big deal about the purity of the water from the well as has every tour guide we have had so far. I'm still not drinking any water in Mexico that isn't bottled.

This is Don Chucho and he is uncovering our lunch. He was very meticulous moving the palm fronds making sure none of the dirt fell down on the charcoal or the pot with the chicken.


Here is lunch. We had the chicken on homemade corn tortillas with some onions and guacamole and of course some hot sauce that was way to hot for me. Everything was delicious.

Not sure what kind of flower this is but it looked like a type of orchid.

We had some peppers like these that grew in Guam called boonie peppers and they were very hot also.

This is Senora Gloria showing us how she makes the corn tortillas. She was making them and looking all around and watching one of the women from our tour make a mess of her tortilla.


Then Francisco showed us the leaf/frond that Don Chucho was going to make sisal from.

Put it on the leaning sawhorse thing and anchored it.

Then took this triangled shaped log tool and stripped off all the green pulp leaving the sisal fibers.

Francisco showing us the left over fibers.

These are a few of the things that can be made from the fibers.

The seeds in this pod are what were used to season the chicken we had at lunch.

Got back to the ship and who do we find people watching but Mum and Dad on deck 5 just watching everyone come back onboard.

Stopped off to get me a diet coke, my first of the day and I really didn't even miss not having one until now. So I guess just keeping hydrated keeps those caffeine withdrawal symptoms at bay.

Dinner was another fun time tonight. Michael really got into the dancing again.


This is Dad showing us what he looked like when he was a member of the Beatles!

Can't believe the cruise is starting to wind down, we waited so long for it to start and just a day at sea and one more port and we will be heading home.