This is part of a series called Oceania 2025 Another incredible day. Our first stop was Montgomery Reef. At 154 sq. mi. in size, it’s the world’s largest inshore reef, surrounding Montgomery (or Yawajaba) Island. It’s almost like another horizontal waterfall. At low tide, the reef is a panorama of vast lagoons, tiny sandstone islets…
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This is part of a series called Oceania 2025 We arrived in Talbot Bay at about 4:00 am in order to be there at high tide. Why, you say? It’s because today we were here to visit the Horizontal Waterfalls, a natural phenomenon that occurs when seawater rushes through a couple of short and narrow…
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This is part of a series called Oceania 2025 We left Broome to begin our cruise and, after a quiet night at sea, we arrived at the Lacepede Islands Nature Reserve, located about 75 miles north of Broome. There are actually four islands here that are all low-lying atolls of coarse sand and limestone, all…
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This is part of a series called Oceania 2025 Our last stop before starting our cruise was in Broome, WA. The temperature was at least 20 degrees warmer and the humidity also ticked up a bit, but it felt good after feeling cold for the past week! We had been to Broome before (back in…
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This is part of a series called Chile from the Sea To paraphrase an old saying, “Into every trip some rain must fall.” Today we got that, both figuratively and literally. Today we arrived in Valdivia, known as the “Venice of Chile” because of the myriad of rivers that meet there. While traditionally settled by…
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This is part of a series called Chile from the Sea After the relatively calm of the fjords we had been traveling in, we headed out to the Pacific Ocean and things got pretty wild with wind, rain, and big waves. Luckily by morning, things cleared up for our visit to Chiloé Island, a beautiful…
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This is part of a series called Chile from the Sea Today we visited another small community — Caleta (or “Cove”) Tortel. It is located on the Chilean mainland between the Northern and Southern Patagonian Ice Fields. Similar to Puerto Eden, most of the homes are on the water and the main way of getting…
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This is part of a series called Chile from the Sea Today we stopped at Puerto Eden, one of the most isolated inhabited places in Chile. It is on Wellington Island which is largely a national park. This tiny town of 200 people can only be reached by boat — there are no roads, airports,…
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This is part of a series called Chile from the Sea One the the major reasons we stopped in Puerto Natales was to visit Torres del Paine National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and the eighth wonder of the world (as declared in 2013). It’s a huge park of about 700 sq. Miles, so we…
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This is part of a series called Chile from the Sea Today was another sea day, but a wonderful day to gaze at the beautiful Andes mountains that we sailed along, and later in the day through to get to our next stop — Puerto Natales. To get there, however, we had to traverse the…
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