Day 2 of Le Soleal’s unplanned stay in port in Seward, Alaska. The vast majority of the passengers are taking chartered catamarans to see the Holgate Glacier, which was our planned ship itinerary yesterday. Other […]
Today’s plan is an “unplanned” landing at Chuginadak Island, part of the strangely named Islands of Four Mountains archipelago. It is meant to be a sea day en route to Unalaska Island, but our captain […]
L’Austral arrives back in Darwin around 7 am, with the first group of passengers from the Kimberley expedition due to disembark at 8:30 am. All continuing passengers (about 25 people) must be back on board […]
The four islands of the Lacepede Islands lie off the coast of Western Australia, about 120km north of Broome. We are still en route to the Lacepede Islands this morning when Captain Marchesseau announces […]
Darwin is home for the next 2 and a bit days as I wait to board L’Austral for the expedition around the Kimberley coast and Indonesia, and Corroboree Billabong is my first destination in the […]
There are a number of wildlife centres on the Garden Route between Plettenberg Bay and Port Elizabeth, South Africa. On the way to Port Elizabeth, I have time to visit two of them – Tenikwa […]
