Hello from Manzanillo, Mexico!
Hubby stayed onboard (he wasn't about to tackle the very long and hot pier) and I headed out and rolled around the waterfront area on my scooter. This is definitely a port that would have been inaccessible to me without one. Those poor folks with walkers and canes sure were struggling. I stayed within view of the ship because once you get very far away you encounter broken up sidewalks and those are definitely not fun on a scooter. In the waterfront area the cobblestones weren't fun either, and the wheelchair curb cutouts were so steep I had to get off the scooter several times to pull it up and down the ramps. But I still had a good time and was able to see some colorful additions to the area.
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New sculptures line the waterfront (Hubby tells me these were here before?) |
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Just one of the sculptures depicting the horoscope signs |
Otherwise it doesn't seem like all that much has changed since the last couple times we were here.
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Royal Princess today
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The Grand Princess in 2018 |
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Sailfish statue today. The people walking by give you a sense of the size of this thing. |
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Sailfish statue in 2018 Did you know Manzanillo is the sailfish capital of the world? |
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Police presence today |
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Police presence in 2019 |
Did you know Manzanillo is the busiest cargo port in Mexico? Yep, the port handled roughly 2.68 million metric tons of cargo just in 2022. That's a lot of goods!
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Cargo ship watching in 2019. |
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Cargo ship watching today |
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Today's ship traveled the Hong Kong-Taiwan-China-Korea-Mexico route. |
Being today is Sunday lots of locals were out and about, with many taking pictures in front of the ship.
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How lucky am I that this is my home for the week? |
See you tomorrow from Mazatlan!