Cozumel, Mexico, Thursday Jan 20th

In Cozumel, we decided to take a more expensive beach trip than the one in Grand Cayman. They ferried us out to Isla Pasion, a private island with a day resort and a nice beach. There were only 30 or so of us on the beach, the guides were bringing us drinks out into the surf as needed, and they provided a nice lunch. The lady with the camera wanted to take our picture (upper left), so we made her wade out into the surf to do it.

Since this was our fourth stop, we had both gotten a little bit of a sunburn going by now, but not as bad as it appears in these photos.

In this last photo, bottom right, you can see Pepe standing just in front of the little hut. Pepe is a deer. He was found orphaned on the main island of Cozumel, and brought over to Isla Pasion where he was raised by the people working there. He's quite tame around people. Only problem is, he's reached his adulthood, and no one has brought over a female deer for him. Poor thing.

After returning to town, we did some more shopping. The shopkeepers in Cozumel are very aggressive. Every shop had a hawker out front doing everything they could to talk you into coming inside. After we got tired of that, we stopped at a genuine Mexican restaurant for a light dinner before returning to the ship. On the pier, your could see the sunset over the water so we finished up with these last two pictures.