April 11, 2025
DEVIL'S ISLAND, FRENCH GUIANA - Don't know that this port counts - we never got off the ship - just a sail by!
I feel like I saw this Island ! We watch the 2.5 hour movie Papillon from 1973 with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman the night before ( it was 2.5 hours I will never get back - not a real action thriller and ending fizzled out, like there budget got removed! It was a true story - so gave us good insight to prison there. Sadly the water was too choppy for our rented tenders to safely board passengers. They tried several times all morning, will no luck. So we had to simply sail by. A big disappointment for a lot of us who had watched the movie in anticipation.
There are actually 3 islands here called the Salvation Islands of French Guiana. Devil's Island is the one in the back behind the other two.
HONOLULU, on O'AHU ISLAND, HAWAII - Our first port in the USA!!
8 SEA DAY CROSSING TO HAWAII - 5/24 to 6/1/25
Cabo is known as a party town - I was here years ago with the girls iand remember the lively bar & restaurant scene in and around the marina. There appears to be even more, from what I recall! This was a tender port for us and we only had about 6 hours in Port. It was a gorgeous sunny day and I had planned to Uber out to the colonial, artsy town of San Jose del Cabo with a friend, but she was feeling very under the weather. So after a quick jaunt along the marina - she went back to the ship and I walked some more looking for a plan B. I ran into another friend and we decided the best way to say farewell to Mexico and use up our pesos was to drink Margaritas! So off we went and found a nice second floor deck, to oversee the marina and enjoy the scenery.