Wednesday – Golf and Relaxing

Barb and Harry were up bright and early (actually – before sunrise) and off the Cabo San Lucas Country Club for a round of golf. We were the first ones on the course, followed by a foursome from Calgary who own a house on the grounds of the Country Club. They told us that when they left home minutes before, the temperature was already 68 degrees F. The course is tough but beautiful, and the sun bright. The longest hole was over 500 yds, and the shortest just 87 yards. There is water on many of the holes, often for the whole length of the fairway. There were lots of bunkers, and both of us spent our time on the beach. We tee’d off just before 7 and finished by just after 10:30. There were lots of birds on the fairways. On the first couple of holes there were a couple of road runners, then on the 5th hole we were surprised with a whole group of Buzzards. Harry wondered if they were waiting for his game to die completely! On the 17th hole – which is very short – we saw a stork, and a couple of pelicans.
Back at Rui Palace – we joined the rest of the crew around the pool deck for a relaxing afternoon. We didn’t even need to leave for lunch as they were making fajitas on the pool deck. Oleg and his daughter Anna took to the skies parasailing. Those on the ground watched as both waived their arms in the air. A couple of others may get up the courage to try out the sport tomorrow. The later part of the afternoon saw several head off to town to enjoy shopping and dinner at a local restaurant.
Thought we would talk about the taxi situation and getting places. You always have the choice of walking anywhere, but with the heat – that is not wise. It is very easy to get a cab and the cost is minimal - $10 to get into town – and all the cabs are 9 passenger vans. The road system is interesting – for example – to get to our golf course yesterday – as the crow flies it is probably 2 KM, and right across the highway from our hotel. However – to get there, you need to go down the driveway for the hotel, through the gate – where lots of laborers gather, then proceed toward the road. At the road – which runs parallel to the highway, you turn Right - east (one way) and proceed to the lights about 2 or 3 KM away. At the light make a U-Turn onto the other parallel one- way road going the opposite direction on the other side of the highway. Then turn right into the Country Club and go another km towards the club house. There is also a Costco and a Wal-Mart which are visible from the back of our hotel – but no one has gone to visit due to the challenge – it is across the highway.
Oh and about the laborers outside the gate. We understand that this is a long-standing conflict between the hotels and the cab drivers. You must leave the hotel via a cab, but are able to return via a tour bus. So when we arrived from the airport – it was by bus, but we will have to leave by cab. This is an effort to keep the hotels from running shuttles and therefore doing the cab drivers out of work.

We will see what tomorrow brings – we anticipate warm, sunny weather!