Thursday night

After  a rain storm last night and cloudy brooding skies this morning we took a taxi to the Vallarta yacht club (oh to be really rich and own any of those boats!) and got on our previously purchased tour on a motorized sailboat going to Las Marietas islands for snorkelling and potential whale watching.

A two hour trip to the islands included two large sea turtles but not much else. We snorkled for quite a while on the north side of the island seeing a few fish. After that we did a slow motor around the island looking at birds as these islands are a national park. We stopped at a famous spot called (in Spanish) "lovers beach" where those who really wanted to go to the beach had to jump in the water and swim in, so you know we did it. A TOTALLY unexpected adventure as we swam under a large rock covered entrance and once on the little enclosed beach on the inside we investigated two other tunnels that lead to the ocean which we all went in to explore.WOW.AMAZING!!!

By the time the day was ending and we started our trip home the sky was only partly cloudy and it was beautiful out. We saw a  number of dolphins which was exciting.The captain shut down the motor for quite a while and the crew put up the sails.We enjoyed that sail too.We were back at our hotel just before sunset and tonight being Mexico night we had Mexican food for supper ( Caro LOVING IT). The photos below give an idea of our day. FANTASTIC!