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Cruise Weekly Comment: Top End
Cruise Weekly – Comment by Roderick Eime Historically, modern expedition cruising goes back to Lindblad’s Antarctic cruises of the 1960s, while in our region, Coral Princess Cruises founder, Tony Briggs was one of the first to offer extended cruises on the Great Barrier Reef with a converted, Fairmile class, WWII-era submarine chaser in the early […]
Cruise Weekly Comment: Top End
Cruise Weekly – Comment by Roderick Eime Historically, modern expedition cruising goes back to Lindblad’s Antarctic cruises of the 1960s, while in our region, Coral Princess Cruises founder, Tony Briggs was one of the first to offer extended cruises on the Great Barrier Reef with a converted, Fairmile class, WWII-era submarine chaser in the early […]
Leaving a Carbon Footprint
Everywhere you turn lately, it seems, people are talking about climate change, global warming, carbon offsets and lower emissions. Is it just hype and bluster, as some would have us believe, or is it the end of the world as we know it? Roderick Eime looks at the arguments. It would appear that even our […]
NEW SHIP FOR THOSE WITH A QUEST FOR ADVENTURE
A spectacular first year in out-of-the-ordinary, out-of-the-way cruising with their boutique 352-passenger Spirit of Adventure, has prompted her owners to acquire a second ship for high-quality, intimate-style discovery cruising. The slightly larger 450-passenger Quest for Adventure is undergoing a multi-million pound refit before her inaugural cruise from Harwich in the UK to the Baltic on […]
NEW SHIP FOR THOSE WITH A QUEST FOR ADVENTURE
A spectacular first year in out-of-the-ordinary, out-of-the-way cruising with their boutique 352-passenger Spirit of Adventure, has prompted her owners to acquire a second ship for high-quality, intimate-style discovery cruising. The slightly larger 450-passenger Quest for Adventure is undergoing a multi-million pound refit before her inaugural cruise from Harwich in the UK to the Baltic on […]
Google Street View Launches in Australia
Google Australia today announced the launch of Street View for Australia: http://maps.google.com.au/help/maps/streetview/. Street View is a new feature for Google Maps that enables users to view and navigate 360 degree street-level imagery of Australia’s cities, towns, regional and remote areas, in all 8 States and Territories. By clicking on the “Street View” button in Google […]
Google Street View Launches in Australia
Google Australia today announced the launch of Street View for Australia: http://maps.google.com.au/help/maps/streetview/. Street View is a new feature for Google Maps that enables users to view and navigate 360 degree street-level imagery of Australia’s cities, towns, regional and remote areas, in all 8 States and Territories. By clicking on the “Street View” button in Google […]
What’s new in Las Vegas
The good and the bad news from Las Vegas is that even if you have been to the city within the past six months, there is so much new development that you might just need to go back to see it all again. The city is buzzing with such huge amounts of expansion it is […]
What’s new in Las Vegas
The good and the bad news from Las Vegas is that even if you have been to the city within the past six months, there is so much new development that you might just need to go back to see it all again. The city is buzzing with such huge amounts of expansion it is […]
Alaska Travel News
Anchorage is for the birds Anchorage’s Potter Marsh has long attracted eagles, waterfowl, shorebirds, bears, moose and fox. But just last month, the 540-acre site saw a surge of human visitors when the Alaska Department of Fish and Game officially unveiled $3.1 million worth of new improvements, including 1,000 feet of new boardwalks, wildlife viewing […]
