Islas Ballestas


Saturday morning, we rose at our normal 6:30 (compliments of parenting) had a very nice breakfast (included in our nightly rate) and strolled out to the pier for our 8am reservation to ride out to the islands. We lucked out: because we had made the reservations late (ie: the night before) we were on the second boat leaving from the hotel… and only had about a dozen people on our boat, about half capacity. That meant we could move around the boat freely and truly get a great deal from the experience. Additionally, we found that the boats which leave from our hotel pier are quite smaller than the tourist boats that leave from the downtown pier. In other words — it was worth the few extra dollars to use the hotel tour!

There was a morning fog over the bay and ocean front that wrapped all the floating boats in a mysterious stillness.