This is our last day aboard, we disembark tomorrow in Seattle and begin our drive home to Florida. We will be busy packing. We should be home May 16. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
Today, we stop in Vancouver Canada, our final port of call on this trip. We have no plan other than to walk around the downtown area.
Today, we stop in Victoria Canada. We have no plan other than to walk around the downtown area.
Today we set our clocks to Pacific Time as we make our way at sea to Canada Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
We have been cruising for 4 months now. Today we visit Ketchikan Alaska. We have nothing planned but to walk around the cute town area. We have been here 2 times in the last 2 years so we will enjoy a slow day in port.
Today we are booked a 3 hour wildlife boat tour. Hopefully we will see some whales!
Today we visit Juneau Alaska and have a float plan booked with Wings Airways to fly over 5 Glaciers and then lunch at a native lodge before flying back to town. Should be lots of fun!
Today we visit Skagway and have a Jeep rented for a self guided vis GPS drive to the Yukon in Canada.
Today we have another day of “scenic cruising” at Glacier Bay in Alaska.
See all of our photos of Hubbard Glacier. Here are a couple of cool videos of the glacier calving. Today we visit Hubbard Glacier in the afternoon for “scenic cruising”.
See all the pictures from Whittier Alaska. Today we had our first port of call in 9 days in Whittier Alaska. Andi and Tom drove down from Anchorage to visit and go on our excursion with us. We had a great time. Ken organized a tour of 22 for a Glacier and Wildlife tour from […]
We have 8 sea day to rest after 12 ports in 16 days. We cross the international Date Line going East so we will experience April 23 for two days in a row, recovering the day we lost going west in February. But we are loosing an hour a day each day for 7 days […]
See all the cherry blossom pictures from Hakodate Japan. This is our ninth and last port of nine in Japan. Today is all about Cherry Blossoms. We are 2 days before the peak. We took a cab to Goryokaku Fort. Wow! Oh, more snow covered mountains. Enjoy!
See all of our Aomori photos. This is our eighth port of nine in Japan. Today, we explored the town of Aomori. We started with walking to the big Tourist center, triangle building next to the port. Today was the Aomori marathon so lots of people and entertainment were about. There was snow on the […]
See all of our photos of Miyako Japan. This is our seventh port of nine in Japan. Our plan today was to take a taxi to Jodogahama Beach and Miyako Jodogahama Boat Cruise (Umineko Maru). But it was a nasty overcast day when we got up so we just hung out in the port area. […]
We have 1 sea day to rest before our final 3 port days in Japan. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
This is our sixth port of nine in Japan. Today we went to Disney! It is about an hour’s drive from the port in Yokohama to Disney and we decided to save time and spend money and took a cab. Just easier and quicker. We did get to see Mt. Fuji from the car so […]
This is our fifth port of nine in Japan. Our plan was to be our own – Taxi to Nihondaira Plateau (Nihondaira Yume Terrace, Nihondaira Ropeway , Kunozan Toshogu Shrine) & Shizuoka Sengen Shrine. But since it was a very cloudy day and we couldn’t see Mt. Fuji, we decided to just hang around the […]
We have 1 sea day to rest after 5 straight port days as we sail to Shimizu Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all of our photos from our day at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. This is our fourth port of nine in Japan. Our plan was to take the train to Kyoto but at the last minute we decided to visit Universal Studios Japan. What a great day. Our ship was docked directly across the […]
See all of our photos from Kochi Japan. This is our third port of nine in Japan. We grabbed a cab outside of the port and headed to Kochi Castle. Our plan today is to visit the castle, the Sunday Market, and the Hirome Market, another huge, multi block covered set of streets that are […]
See all of our photos from Kagoshima. This is our second port of nine in Japan. Our plan is to be our own – Taxis to Sengan-en Garden, Tenmonkan Shopping Arcade, and back to the ship. While there was a ship shuttle from the port to downtown Kagoshima, it cost $25 per person and didn’t […]
See all our photos of Yatsushiro Japan. This is our first port of 9 in Japan. Our plan was to be our own and take the train to Kumamoto and explore. But we once again woke up to a rainy day so we ended up just exploring the very cute port area of Yatsushiro. There […]
See all of our photos from Jeju South Korea. Today we ported in Seogwipo Jeju Island South Korea. We had a car and driver hired for the day. Unfortunately is was raining very hard all day. We tried to visit a botanical garden but the rains were too hard. We next drove to Ilchulland botanical […]
We have 1 sea day to as we sail from Taiwan to Jeju Island. We loose another hour. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
Our plan today was to take the train to Taipei, about 40 minutes from the port but it ended up raining all day so we changed plans and just visited the port area and returned to the ship. We grabbed some pictures, such as they are of the area near the port. Tomorrow is a […]
We have 1 sea day to as we sail from Hong Kong to Taiwan. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all of our photos from HK Disneyland here. Today we have tickets to Hong Kong Disneyland. Once again, we are spending the day with our friend Chance Devlin. We pre-arranged an Uber to and from Disney to make things easier. It was about a 25 minute ride from the port the park. We had […]
We have 1 sea day to as we sail from Vietnam to Hong Kong. We set our clocks ahead by 1 hour. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all of our photos from Da Nang and Hoi An. We continued our excursions with our group of 10 in Nha Trang Vietnam. Today we visited two areas from the Chan May port in central Vietnam: Da Nang and Hoi An. It took about an hour to drive to Da Nang where our first […]
Today we spent a few hours of scenic cruising in Halong Bay before turning south towards Da Nang. Halong Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Northeastern Vietnam, is renowned for its thousands of limestone karsts and emerald waters. Unfortunately, it was very smoggy so the pictures were not great. The water was not emerald green […]
See all of the photos from Hanoi. We continue our excursions with our group of 10 in Hanoi Vietnam with a 2.5 hour drive from the port in Halong to Hanoi. Our first stop was a pearl factory where we were shown how they “seed” the oysters as well as what type of pearls come […]
We have 1 sea day to as we sail from Nha Trang to Halong Port for Hanoi in Vietnam Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all of our photos from Nha Trang. We continud our with our group of 10 in Nha Trang Vietnam. We docked in Cam Ranh at a Naval Base. It was about a 30 minute drive from the ship to the gate of the base and another 30 minutes to Nha Trang. Our fist stop […]
See all of our photos of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). Today, we took a group tour with 5 couples. We will be with this group for all of the Vietnam ports of call. After an 1.5 hour ride from the port of Phuy My into Saigon, officially Ho Chi Minh City, we began with […]
We have 1 sea day to recover from Thailand before we arrive in Vietnam Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all of our photos of Bangkok. We are having internet issues. See what we did below and link for all photos above. Will upload inline when we have a better connection. 🙂 Today we have a group tour booked and will spend the night in a hotel in Bangkok so we have two full […]
See all of our photos from Koh Samui Thailand. We had a private drive today to tour Koh Samui. We were taking a circle the island route. Our fist stop was Wat Plai Laem, the largest Buddhist temple complex in Samui and shows Guanyin, the goddess of mercy and compassion. Here you will get an […]
We have 2 sea days before we arrive in Thailand Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
Please see all of our photos from Singapore. Singapore required us to undergo formal immigration and customs procedures so we were asked to disembark in groups. We left the ship around 1030am and after about 30 minutes of walking and getting scanned, photographed, and fingerprinted, we arrived at the taxi stand and were on our […]
We have 1 sea day to recover from Malaysia before we arrive in Singapore. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
Please see all of our photos from Penang Malaysia. We started our day driving through Georgetown and up to the Kek Lok Si Temple with our private guide JooBees. As we drove around, she was pointing out lots of historical sites. We made a quick stop at the house where they were playing Mahjong in […]
Please see all of our photos from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. We started our day with a 1 hour drive from the port in Klang to Kuala Lumpur where we met our guide. After a breakfast and orientation, we began our day of exploration. Our first stop was a traditional Malaysian house, one of the few […]
For the next 3 days, we are sailing from Bali Indonesia to Kalua Lumpur Malaysia. Thankfully, there are no time changes on the near horizon, at least through Singapore. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
Please see all of our Bali photos. We had a private tour today with June Dejone of Bali Escapes along with a driver to see the most we could of the area of the Island of Bali near the port in Denpasar. We started the day at the rice terraces in the hills near Ubud. […]
For the next 3 days, we are sailing from Freemantle to Bali Indonesia. Thankfully, there are no time changes on the near horizon, at least through Singapore. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
Please see all of our Rottnest Island and Freemantle Australia photos. Our plan was to just wander around Freemantle today, but the night before we arrived, we found out about a unique animal called the Quokka that is very rare and mostly found on Rottnest Island just offshore of Freemantle. We teamed up with Chance […]
Today we are sailing from Adelaide to Freemantle Australia. We will be setting our clocks BACK 30 minutes the night we leave, then 1 hour on the evening of Day 1 and another on Day 2. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
Below are just a few of our awesome photos, be sure to see the entire gallery. Today’s port was Adelaide Australia. But instead of exploring Adelaide, we booked a private Koala experience at Cleland Wildlife Park about an hour’s drive from the port. To make things easier, we prebooked Uber’s for both directions and it […]
Today we are sailing from Melbourne to Adelaide Australia. We set the clocks back 30 minutes because of a weird time zone that Adelaide is in. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all of our photos from Melbourne Australia. Today we spent the day with our good friends Tina and Peter. Frist we drove to Healesville Sanctuary, about 1 1/2 hours from the port up into the hills. After a wonderful visit seeing many of Australia’s animals, we did a wine tasting at one of the […]
Please see all of our photos of Wings Wildlife park as this is just a small sample. Today we tour to Wings Wildlife Park and it included a two route countryside drive. The drive was about an hour and set in a beautiful location of the Gunns Plain. We arrived before the cruise busses and […]
Today we are sailing from Sydney to Burnie Tasmania. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all of our photos from our day in Sydney Australia. There are many more than shown below. We docked in Sydney Harbor right downtown and next the famous Sydney Harbor Bridge and just across the water from the UNESCO Sydney Opera House. After going through formal customs and immigration procedures, we spent the day […]
Today we are sailing from New Zealand to Australia. We will be setting our clocks BACK 1 hour each day. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
Today we spent 4 hours cruising through the Milford Sound which is part of Fiordland National Park. A few of the peaks still had snow, even though this was late summer / early fall in New Zealand. There lots of waterfalls and people on sightseeing boats, planes, and helicopters. There were many waterfalls, some large […]
Today we are sailing from New Plymouth to Fiordland National Park New Zealand. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all of our photos of New Plymouth New Zealand. There is not a lot to see in New Plymouth, New Zealand but there is a beautiful park, Pukekura Park. We took the shuttle bus from the port into the city central area and then walked about 15 minutes to the park. Along the way, […]
See our Picton photo gallery for all of the pictures. Today we took a four hour wildlife boat tour in the Queen Charlotte Sound from Picton. We rode aways down the sound and found a pod of Hector’s Dolphins, one of the rarest species in the world with a population of only about 35 and […]
Today we are sailing from Tauranga to Picton New Zealand. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all of our photos of our adventure to Hobbiton Movie Set from Tauranga New Zealand. Today we rented a car so we could visit the Hobbiton Movie Set in Matamata New Zealand. It was about an hour drive from Tauranga. On our way, we stopped at McLaren Falls. There were wild hydrangea flowers everywhere. […]
See all of our photos of Auckland New Zealand. We took a 2 hour walking tour of Auckland. There is not really much to do or see here, its just a big city. After our tour, we found a place to get Ken a haircut and then Karen a manicure. Afterwards, we had a few […]
Today we are sailing from New Caledonia to New Zealand. We will have to set our clocks FORWARD each day while at sea. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
Lifou is another tender port. Just like Dravuni Island, Fiji, our plan is to make this a beach day and maybe see what local tours are offered from the pier. There are supposed to be a few sites withing walking distance from where we come ashore.
Port Vila is located on the island of Efate in Vanuatu. We were woken up at 6am by the ship’s captain with an announcement that we were unable to make port due to high winds and seas. So we have another sea day as we sail onwards to New Caledonia.
Today we are sailing from Fiji to Vanuatu. We are setting our clocks back yet another hour, but remain 1 day ahead of North America. So our clocks are 8 hours behind but our calendar is 1 day ahead. This is getting confusing. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all of our photos from Druvuni Island Fiji. Dravuni Island is a tender port. It was so very hot here today. Our guide in Suva has an uncle that was the village chief here and were were invited to lunch but he never showed up so we just took a few pictures and returned […]
See all of our photos from Suva Fiji Today booked private tour to explore the area surrounding Suva, Fiji. We started our day visiting a local village for an authentic lunch, although it was a bit early, some authentic Fiji dances including a fire dance, and a kava ceremony. Next we drove across the island […]
Today we are sailing from Samoa to Fiji, continuing west of the International Date Line, one day ahead of North America. We also set the clocks back 1 hour. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all of our photos for Apia, Samoa. Yes, we are a day ahead of our friends in North America as we crossed the international date line yesterday and just skipped Feb 11, 2026. We will get an extra day (or the same day 2x) when returning from Japan to Alaska in a couple of […]
***Update**** Please help me out. If you see broken links or missing pictures, or such, please let me know. I just went back and fixed about 10 posts with broken picture links. So if you saw a post with broken links, go back and take another look. Thanks Tons!! Ken For the next 3 days […]
See all our photos from Tahiti. Our last day in French Polynesia on the Island of Tahiti. We once again had a car rented for the day and drove the ring road. Tahiti was much, much busier than the previous islands we had visited, including Hawaii, especially on the east side of the island. Our day […]
See all our photos from Mo’orea. Mo’orea is a tender port and unfortunately, there is very little available where the ship docks. As we didn’t have an excursion planned, we decided the best views were from the ship anchored in ‘ÅŒpÅ«nohu Bay and just enjoy the quiet ship.
See all our photos from Raiatea. We rented a Toyota Hilux truck for the day and drove around the island. Our first stop was a pearl farm. Karen bought a pearl bracelet for about $60. It is very unique, all the pearls are differently shaped, some have colored stripes and others have small pearls growing from the […]
For the next 5 days we will be at sea as we transit from the Hawaiian Islands to the islands of French Polynesia. Fortunately, we will not be changing time zones for awhile. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all our photos from Kona. We rented a really cool “buggy” for today. It was built on the chassis of a 1970 VW Bug. We drove south on the scenic road about an hour, at times climbing to over 2000 feet above sea level until we turned down the hill to visit the Pu’uhonua […]
See all our photos from Maui. Today we rented a Toyota Camaray Hybrid for an another Shaka Tour around the Western Coastline of Maui. We started our tour with our timed entrance to IO Valley, close to the Port. This is a scared valley to the Hawaiians. We then started our drive around the Western […]
See all our photos from Kauai. Today we rented a Honda Odyssey for an awesome adventure to Waimea Canyon, the Grand Canyon of the Pacific, as well as the Na Pali coast overlook. Unfortunately, we found that the main road up to Waimea Canyon was closed to construction for about 9 miles so we had […]
See all our photos from Honolulu. Today we have rented a Honda Pilot from Turo and are talking a self-guided road trip around this tropical paradise. We have purchased a tour that is on our phone and connected with GPS to both guide us and describe what we are seeing and where to go next. […]
For the next 5 days we were at sea as we transit from the West Coast of North America to the Hawaiian Islands. Today was cold and cloudy. So we spent the day shopping, playing trivia, and just relaxing. Maybe a few minutes in the casino. During this transit we didn’t do much but did […]
On Sunday, one of Karen’s crowns fell out so we changed plans and instead of going to the Queen Mary, we had a dentist appointment. We also used the opportunity to do some shopping. We had some Amazon orders delivered to an Amazon Lock Box location which happened to be inside a Ross Dress for […]
Our second day at sea as we travel between Puerto Vallarta and Los Angeles. We had a nice “last night dinner” with our friends who were leaving in Los Angeles. Dinner included the “parade” of waiters, servers, and chefs in the dining room Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
Today we were still recovering from our ailments so we just spent the day relaxing. We did dress for the 3rd formal night. Because of the time change, the national championship was at dinner time so we watched it on our phones during dinner lol. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
Unfortunatly, we didn’t get of the ship today as Ken wasn’t feeling well. We spent all day in the cabin. Therefore, our plan below will have to wait for another trip. See below for the “Plan”. Today we were going to take a self guided walk through this lovely seaside resort town. And also stroll […]
Today is a relaxing sea day as we travel between Huatulco and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We spent a few hours doing laundry for the first time on the cruise. There are laundry rooms on every floor but ours so we used the machines on deck 5. There are 4 large washers, 4 large dryers and […]
See all our photos from Huatulco. Once a haven for pirates and weary sailors traveling from the Far East, today Huatulco (pronounced wah-tool-co) is located on the Pacific Coast in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It’s has 22 miles of jagged coastline, pristine beaches and spectacular crystal-clear waters. Today we charted a private boat chartered to visit […]
See all our photos from the Puerto Chiapas. Puerto Chiapas (Tapachula), Mexico is located on the Pacific coast of Mexico, in the state of Chiapas. It is situated on the Gulf of Tehuantepec, near the border with Guatemala. Our original plan was to just hang out near the port but we were invited by friends on the […]
We had smooth sailing during our day at sea as we cruise between Puntarenas, Costa Rica and Puerto Chiapas, Mexico. Ken spent the day sitting on the deck in the wonderful weather, enjoying the view and working on this blog and photos. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all our photos from Puntarenas. Today we scheduled a tour with Greenway Tours. We will be taking a 60 minute “Jungle Cruise” on the Tarcoles River famous for its large American Crocodiles. Besides crocodiles, we saw tons of aquatic birds. But first, we had to trek down a long, long pier to find our guide and […]
Another relaxing sea day as we leave Panama behind and head to Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Tonight is Formal Night on the Coral Princess. We had our pictures taken in several locations on the ship. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all our photos from the Panama City. We planned on visiting 3 different areas of Panama City. The Miraflores Locks Visitor Center, Panama Viejo which are the original Panama City which are now ruins, and finally Old Town Panama City. We decided to skip the locks visitor center since we had just sailed through the canal […]
See all our photos from the Panama Canal Crossing Transiting the Panama Canal involves a fascinating journey through a series of locks that raise and lower vessels between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, utilizing a system of artificial lakes and channels. The process, whether a full transit from ocean to ocean or a partial transit, offers unique […]
Today is our last day before we transit to the Pacific for the duration of the cruise. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
See all our photos from Cartagena, Columbia. Cartagena is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Considered by many as one of the world’s most beautiful, fascinating and magical cities, Cartagena was founded by Spanish conquerors as a main port to bring Europeans and their goods into South America, and transport gold, silver and all sorts of […]
Lets finish unpacking and getting settled in, our first port of call is tomorrow in Cartagena, Columbia. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
Today we will be exploring our new home for the next 4 1/2 months. Click here for the current location of the Coral Princess
The day is finally here as we board our ship for our 131 day epic journey.
