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Stop the World I Want to Get Off
As published in When Australia’s Baby Boomers want to get away from it all, they head to Byron Bay. But they don’t leave their hard-earned integrity, status and comforts behind. Words and pictures by Roderick Eime. Additional photography courtesy the Byron at Byron. “No one lives for the moment anymore,” laments Lyn Parché, manager of […]
Vanuatu’s New Adventure Cruise With Coral Princess
Vanuatu’s 83 islands range from lush forests to active volcanoes to palm-fringed beaches and are home to a thriving local culture that maintains ties to sorcery and mythology. Coral Princess has just released a schedule of five-night adventure cruises that explore the lesser-known wonders of the tiny South Pacific nation. Cruising aboard Coral Princess’s luxury […]
A Pukka Rose
Article from: In the skyrocketing cruise market, there’s still room for good old fashioned charm. Roderick Eime lied about his age for a glimpse of retro-cruising, British style. The small crowd watches on with palpable anticipation. Ted stares purposefully toward the small pile of rope rings arrayed on deck and takes his shot. His red […]
There’s a Bear in There
Story and photographs by Roderick Eime Beyond the well trafficked sea lanes and cruise ship haunts of Alaska’s Inside Passage lies the true Alaska. Still a wild frontier where, if you stroll in the woods, you take a cut lunch and a .303! “Walk loudly, sing songs, whatever,” says the pimply young ranger at Anan’s […]
Rediscovering Aotearoa
Rediscovering AotearoaBay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand New Zealand’s idyllic Bay of Islands is one of the world’s most attractive aquatic playgrounds. How do I know? Well, I’m just back from five nights aboard Coral Princess Cruises’s Oceanic Discoverer where she has completed her short season in the Northland region of New Zealand. The […]
Hong Kong – The Great Chinese Melting Pot
The vibrant and bustling seaport of Hong Kong has enjoyed a prominent part in the grand opera of Asia. Roderick Eime travelled to Hong Kong for a whirlwind tour of the sights, sounds and smells of the former British colony and discovered a bright and brassy city with a long and colourful history
In Shackleton’s Footsteps – One reader follows Shackleton to remotest South Georgia
In Shackleton’s Footsteps – One reader follows Shackleton to remotest South Georgia
Kiriwina Encounter
We heard the pounding of the drums over the buzz of the outboard motor as the tiny Zodiac deposited us on the beach at Kiriwina Island. Clearly something was afoot.
