{"id":12426,"date":"2013-08-01T03:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/a-cruise-for-people-who-dont-like-cruising-really-true-north-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2013-08-01T03:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T03:36:00","slug":"a-cruise-for-people-who-dont-like-cruising-really-true-north-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/08\/a-cruise-for-people-who-dont-like-cruising-really-true-north-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cruise For People Who Don&#8217;t Like Cruising (Really): True North In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/specials-images.forbes.com\/imageserve\/04QF4DI9to0qX\/0x600.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/specials-images.forbes.com\/imageserve\/04QF4DI9to0qX\/0x600.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"right\">\n<td>image sourced from <a href=\"http:\/\/forbes.com\/\">Forbes.com<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>No one on board Australia\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northstarcruises.com.au\/\">True North<\/a> is ever a \u201ccruise person.\u201d I certainly wasn\u2019t when I set sail, and neither were the two dozen jolly Australians I was with. No one compared stories about past cruises, good or bad. We talked about climbing trips, diving, and other adventures; we were all low-to-the-ground, physically active, looking for freedom, and obsessed, like everyone these days, with the \u201cauthentic.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>My weeklong voyage wended through the gorges of the Kimberley, the wild, rugged coast between Darwin and Broome, in northwestern Australia, one of the world\u2019s last true wildernesses. It\u2019s a place so vast, undeveloped, and scorchingly hot that it\u2019s best explored by sea. These are uncharted waters\u2014literally; at least once during any week he\u2019s on board, Craig Howson, the True North\u2019s gregarious owner, motors a tender down a tributary, wondering aloud what\u2019s down there, then putting on a show by wrestling with a crocodile.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/annabel\/2013\/07\/30\/a-cruise-for-people-who-dont-like-cruising-really-true-north-in-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\">read full story<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image sourced from Forbes.com No one on board Australia\u2019s True North is ever a \u201ccruise person.\u201d I certainly wasn\u2019t when I set sail, and neither were the two dozen jolly Australians I was with. No one compared stories about past cruises, good or bad. We talked about climbing trips, diving, and other adventures; we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[327,328],"class_list":["post-12426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-north-star-cruises","tag-true-north"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}