Mexican Riviera Cruise Photo-journal, Part I

As I promised: photos. This is a three part series, showing photos of our Mexican Riviera cruise aboard Holland America's Oosterdam. Part I shows us sailing away, a day at sea, and our day in Cabo San Lucas.

It was dark, rainy, and cold by the time we sailed out of of San Diego bay. This picture shows us on our balcony, all bundled up.

The next day was sunny and clear. We had an aft balcony, that overlooked the ship's wake.

Our balcony, where we spent much of our time on sea days, was quite large compared to the other balconies on the ship, because it was aft. There was also the constant "whooosh" of the water going by.

This picture shows Julie on the tender boat in Cabo San Lucas, the ship in the background.

Our ship, the Oosterdam, from the tender.

In Cabo, we took a glass bottom boat out to "land's end," the very tip of the Baja. This picture show Julie and I, along with our friends.

The water was shallow at parts of land's end. We could see the bottom through the glass, along with colorful fish. Our boat captain attracted the fish by throwing tortillas over the edge.

Near land's end, you could look through the rocks through a keyhole.

This picture shows all of us near the famous arch in Cabo.