Cruising

The Great White Continent (2005)

So this time it’s off to Planet Penguin. Having committed to this in a moment of weakness, by the time we’d stopped off at Auckland via...

Costa Rica-Panama Canal-Ecuador

From Havana, it was an overnight sail around the north-west tip of Cuba and south headed for the Panama Canal. We stopped off at Cayman...

The Fairweather Range and Lituya Bay

A highlight of Alaska, Glacier Bay is good tourist stuff, but, as usual, I managed to get utterly sidetracked by a nearby attraction –...

The Galapagos

After checking into the Quito Swissotel, I met up with Lynne and Ed at the bar at 6pm, with much laughter all round. Their friends Morris...

A Christmas Serendipity

Having departed Oman, we spent a couple of days delightfully at sea, and at leisure. Lazy breakfasts to start, a bit of sport baiting the...

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

Arriving at Dubai airport at 3am is not as easy as it should be. Having walked a country mile to board an up-escalator, one then strolls...

Alaska

Having sailed out of San Francisco Bay on a warm summer’s evening, by the time we reached open water, the fog bank had engulfed any view...