World Cruise 2025

Today we docked in Picton, New Zealand. Picton is located on the South Island near the head of the Queen Charlotte Sound. It serves as the major transportation hub between the North and South Islands of New Zealand connecting roads and rails by a series of ferries that traverse the Cook Strait. It is also […]

We arrived at Hawke’s Bays, in the wonderful city of Napier, New Zealand in the early this morning on day 20 of our 116 day world cruise. Once again, we docked an industrial dock so had to take a mandatory shuttle bus into town (about a 10 min drive). Unfortunately, this was a very quick […]

Thursday morning found us at anchor in the amazing Bay of Islands, an area on the east coast of the Far North District of the North Island of New Zealand. This beautiful region boasts no less then 144 islands within the confines of the bay. Because we were anchored in the bay, passengers make their way to shore […]

After 6 days at sea (7 if you count crossing the date line) we docked in Suva, Fiji. The weather was very warm with 90+% humidity. It rained on and off our entire stay. We were last here in November 2023 and had to cut our visit short due to tropical cyclone Mal. We were […]

Today we crossed both the equator and the international date line as we sailed Southwest from Hawaii on our way to Fiji. We completely skipped January 31, 2025 and went from Jan 30 to Feb 1, 2025. The clocks were also set back 1 hour (or is that ahead 23 hours?). As is his tradition […]

We arrived in Nawiliwili Harbor in the early morning on January 27th after an unsettled overnight passage from Oahu. The weather was clear, sunny and cool, a welcome change from yesterday’s rain. After a quick breakfast aboard, we joined Gerne and David for that most amazing of tropical island adventure, an Uber to Costo for […]

After 5 days at sea, we finally arrived at our first stop of this 116-day voyage, Honolulu Hawaii. The sun was still down and it was just starting to rain when the ship docked at Pier 2. The Aloha Tower greeted us with its glow. A double rainbow made an appearance just after breakfast. We […]

The weather today is fairly unsettled with squalls and rolling waves. We are about 3/4 of the way to our first stop, Honolulu. Woke up early to attend 7AM Pilates class followed by the usual Spin class. All of this exercise is slowing down the inevitable weight gain that comes with cruising. We met up […]

Up early to watch the sunrise.

We woke up early this morning to watch the sunrise and ordered room service coffee. Weather was cool and pleasant, and the seas were calm. We love sunrises at sea. Dan attended an early morning Spin class in the gym and then joined Sue on deck for breakfast. We brought our Ukulele’s from home since […]

We boarded the Island Princess today (Jan 20, 2025) to begin our 117 day World Cruise. For this adventure we are joined by our friends David and Gerne from s/v Dreamer. We will post updates and photos as the trip progresses. Photos of our room for this voyage Sailaway Random photos

We’ve recently updated our places visited list (aka our ISO 3166 Country List) and were thrilled to see that as of our last trip, we have checked off 100 unique destinations!! (there are 253 destinations on the list).  We currently have 25 destinations planned in 2025; 10 of them are new, 15 are repeats per […]