February 1, 2019 – Lima, Peru
We are docked in an industrial area and are about 20 mins from downtown Lima. Today we have two tours scheduled. We are to see penguins and sea lions out on the Ballestas Islands and then see Lima at Night.
Humboldt penguins live and breed along the Pacific coastlines of Chile and Peru. A current of the same name pushes water up from Antartica. The cold water drops to the bottom of the ocean and pushes nutrients up from the floor. This makes the area ideal for many kinds of fish and sea creatures. It also makes the temperature of the ocean about 60 degrees here in the middle of summer.
We enjoyed watching the Sea Lions and also the boat ride back. We got back to the ship in time for dinner and then went on our next tour, “Lima at Night”. Friday night traffic was awful. People can’t drive here and the police don’t seem to care. Our destination was the center of the old colonial section of Lima. We didn’t get off of the tour bus here and it was difficult to take pictures through the windows. We did see many people out enjoying this area.
Close by was the Magic Water Circuit Park. Below is a video of the show we watched. These fountains sprayed up in a fan like fashion and then a show with music was projected on to them.
Lot’s of families here enjoying a warm Friday night. It is Summer vacation here until March.
We returned back to the ship at about 10:30 pm …