10 Night Cruise on the Radiance of the Seas Part VI

Our next stop, was Zihuatanejo/Ixtapa Mexico. Actually, Ixtapa is about 2 miles North of where we were.


The ship had to tender us in at this location as it's a kind of small bay/inlet but the trip from ship to shore was around 8 minutes, so we were very close.

We knew ahead of time that this was going to be our beach day, so we decided to go to Los Gato beach, on the other side of the bay. So, as soon as our tender docked, we got on another small boat to go across the bay. 
This area had a bit more vegetation than the others we'd visited, and the homes were a bit nicer.


You can see at right, how far we were from our cruise ship. The beach itself was soft sand, and gentle waves as we were in a gorgeous little cove.

As we walked up the beach, a local man came to us and asked if we were going to spend the day, then led us to his place up the beach, with comfortable chairs, umbrellas and tables with tablecloths on them which was surprising considering you're at the beach. When we asked him how much for the chairs, he said no charge, just tip well when we drink or eat. Sounded like a deal so we sat down.
We were literally 10 feet from the water, it was about 88 degrees out, and we were all very relaxed.


We all watched as fishermen would occasionally come in and bring freshly caught fish to the various places like ours. 

Lunch was something that'll be hard to describe, but I'll try. 
I had beef fajitas, Mike had a dish of small soft taco's, but his wife Jeralynn had the special of the day. They cut a pineapple in half top to bottom, hollowed it out, put in some of the fresh fish, shrimp, mango, papaya and pineapple chunks and baked it with a tiny bit of local cheese on top. Words won't do it justice.

Now, I don't know if you see it, but the thing with the  flowers sticking out of it is actually Jeralynn's drink! It's a pina colada made inside a hollowed out pineapple! The flowers were breathtakingly beautiful, and the drink was great.
At right is a better picture of her lunch, and the drink, don't forget to click on any picture to 'embiggen'.


The food and drink were outstanding, and the prices were so inexpensive.. it's embarrassing.  By far, this was one of the best stops yet on the trip.


One last picture, to show you the beauty of this place: