Blog

Here's the map of our course fron Papeete to Honiara. Those that left the ship were flown to Sidney on a charter plane. Those that rmbarked were flown up from Sidney. Sunset as we leave Soloman Islands April 26, 2025 Honiara was the city we were docked at for a day...

April 22, 2025 Today is a special day for a special friend of mine, Dr. Paul Boring.  When I was a sophomore in high school, Paul (of course he was “Mr. Boring” then) was a first-year teacher.  He was my biology teacher.  I’ve mentioned before that I...

The Easter bunny visited the ship and brought us lots of chocolate. He also hid 100 paper bunnies and eggs for those who wanted to search. Kim got up very early and found a few. The seas are smooth today and it's 83 degrees and sunny. We hope whatever your...

April 19, 2025 Vanua Balavu Island After a day at sea, we came into the Islands of Fiji.  There are over 500 Islands in the group.  We have entered an area called Melanesia.  We will island hop our way over to Papua New Guinea, then down to Darwin, Australia...

Sailing into paridise It's April 16, 2025 Samoa, locally pronounced Saam-ooh-ah. This is the first stop that we have duplicated on last years cruise.  We did the Island tour and Kim complained that she didn't have time to climb to the tomb of Robert Lewis Stevenson.  ...

Tonight, we had dinner with the expedition photographer.  He stated again that we were in an area that almost no one had seen on a cruise ship, including him.  We are going where cruise ships have seldom been.  Even the captain has never been...