Cruising off the coast of Peru

Tour buses lined up on the dock

The whole area looked like this

Desert meets the sea

Hundreds of Booby birds on the cliffs

Red sand beach

We do not dock until 2 this afternoon so we have a chance to catch up on everything.  It sure is great having the free laundry service, we just put the bag outside our door in the morning and the laundry comes back in the afternoon.  They iron everything including the underwear and pajamas! 
The first thing we noticed yesterday when we docked was the smell, the whole place stunk of rotten fish and by late afternoon the smell had permeated the entire ship!  I think there is still a bit of the smell on the ship even though we have sailed more than 15 hours.  Yesterday we took a short tour to a natural preserve, pretty stark desert that goes right to the sea, not really what we expected at all.  The whole coastline is nothing but desert.  We did see a lot of different sea birds, but not much else. 
Our team won at trivia even though we had lost one of our members when she left the cruise in Lima, we are searching for a replacement team mate, hopefully a Brit or Aussie to help with those questions! 
After we dock today at 2 we are taking a 7 hour tour to Arequipo (sp?) to see the ice maiden mummy, kind of sorry we chose this tour as it is two and a half hours each way on the bus, luckily we have a sea day tomorrow so we can take it easy for a day.