I don’t know what it is about mixing the sun and water that always creates such beauty, but I’m really glad it does. This beautiful sunrise was taken at our beach resort in Cancun, Mexico last Thursday.
Two weeks ago tomorrow, my husband and I started on a fun adventure. We signed up for a mystery tour. We were told average temperatures (80-90) and we were told to pack an umbrella and a swimming suit. We were also told to bring our passports. That was it. Two weeks before departure, we were told to meet at the Southwest Airlines check in at the airport at 4:45am (no, that’s not a typo). We went to the checkin counter, gave them our bags, and got our boarding passes for Cancun, Mexico. Whoot whoot! A very nice surprise. We spent the week driving individual speed boats, visiting Mayan ruins, driving through the jungle on ATVs, zip lining (a personal favorite), snorkeling, playing in the water, and taking boats across the beautiful Caribbean Sea to small islands to have lunches on private beaches and do more water-based things. I would highly recommend going on this company’s next mystery tour, but the couple who runs the travel agency are in their late 70s and are retiring. This was their last hurrah, and we are so glad that we caught their final fling.
IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO (OR TWO OR THREE) THAT FEATURES THE SUN AND WATER TOGETHER.
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What an interesting way to take a vacation. Lovely photo to boot!
Thanks, Dawn! We had such a great time, I’d trust our guides to take us to Oklahoma and find fun and interesting things to see and do. 🙂
What an adventure! Beautiful capture of the sunrise.
Thanks!
Kudos to you! That’s one adventure! And I love your sunrise photo – although I prefer holidaying on a west coast (I can sleep longer).
🙂 We were a little sad for no sunset pictures, but these mornings really made up for that lack. Also the clear, blue waters of the Caribbean sea and the wonderful snorkeling… 😉
I’m sure you enjoyed every minute!
A sunset is always gorgeous, especially at the coaast line:)
My “sun and water” – sun is seen by the shadows on the bridge, and in the reflection o one of the ponds in the beautiful Huntington Library Gardens in Pasadena, CA.
https://wp.me/p9EWyp-1jO
Thanks for hosting.
What a fabulous holiday Jenn 🙂
We had a great time. 🙂
Wonderful photo and fantastic adventure tour – what a great experience!
It was great! Thanks!
Wow! What an adventure and how brave of you!!
We’ve known the couple running the tour for several years. They’ve been trying to get us to go with them for a long time. They’re retiring, so it was this year or never.
What fun! I’m glad it was somewhere you like
Many of the people on the tour had been on their mystery tours before. I asked if they were always fun, and everyone said yes, even when you weren’t too excited about a destination, the couple running the tours always found fun and interesting places to go and things to do. Even in Kansas (as we were told by several people). 🙂
Here’s mine. Love your choice ! https://dailymusing57.com/2019/10/10/a-photo-a-week-challenge-sun-water/
Your trip certainly sounds like a surprise of epic proportions, Nancy 🙂
It was. We had a great time. 🙂
Wow, what an adventure! I find your photo very dramatic!
Thanks! We had a great time.
Here’s my contribution to the challenge. With Lake Huron on one side of us and Colpoy’s Bay on the other side I had rather a lot of options:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2019/10/11/a-photo-a-week-challenge-sun-water/
Here is my contribution: http://www.giftsmart.com/sunset-over-water/
I love the idea of a mystery tour … what a fantastic concept. Never been to Mexico … but everybody I know that been there is raving about it. Stunning image.
We had a great time. The agency that planned our trip is closing. This was their last hurrah. They have been doing these trips for 25 years, and they are ready to retire. 🙂
Hi Nancy, such a gorgeous sunrise.
Here is my entry for this week. Enjoy!
What a brave vacationer you are!! Maybe you should take up that baton!!
Here’s mine (including a true story I wrote!)
I’d heard of “mystery tour” before but always within a region – they were bus tours. This sounds like a lot of fun! I hope others are running such trips! Love the photo!
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Beautifful photo 🙂
Here we go to the beach to watch the sun set. It is a fascinating sight.
What a wonderful adventure and a gorgeous photo! Here’s my link-https://acacophonouslife.com/2019/10/14/a-photo-a-week-challenge-sun-water/
A mystery vacation! Wow – I am impressed at your sense of adventure. And a sunset included 🙂
Lovely photo and sounds like a fun adventure. I’ve added a winter sun shot, taken in Copenhagen, on a bright but cold December morning.
Cheers, Amy
I love you photo. wonderful morning atmosphere.