A black-tipped shark, some five feet long, circled the ship as we gathered on deck for lifeboat drill. “Don’t worry, he’s had lunch,” joked one of the officers on Celebrity Cruises‘ Xperience, my floating home for the week. The shark certainly wasn’t interested in a large green turtle that popped its head out of the water, or the snaking form of a marine iguana swimming for shore. I, on the
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A small-ship expedition on Silver Explorer is the perfect way to explore the smaller ports along the coastlines of northern California, Washington State and Oregon.
1. There are some places you can only reach by ship Antarctica, for example, or the Chilean fjords. Other places are simply best explored by small ship, like Australia’s wild Kimberley Coast, or Raja Ampat in Indonesia. On a small ship, you can get to otherwise inaccessible places and drop anchor in beautiful bays without another ship or human in sight. There’s no hassle of setting up camp every night
Bottlenosed dolphins were riding our bow wave at dawn. The sun was still below the horizon and the mountains of the distant Baja peninsula were etched in salmon pink. The light and the water were a soft grey as we gathered on deck to watch the shadowy figures, chasing us, surfing in front of us, arching gracefully out of the water, calling to one another.
