Doug's Photos

Our fourth day at sea since we left Vava'u, Tonga. Tomorrow we reach Aitutaki Atoll, Cook Islands and, hopefully, use a tender boat t...

Today we did a Holland America excursion, probably our most disappointing one so far. It wasn't off to a good start. We made it ashore...

We'd booked an excursion through the cruise line but canceled it when some friends we'd met on the ship asked us to come along on...

Today we had tenders again, but since we were on a cruise line tour, we didn't have to worry about tender tickets. Our tour was Trad...

Although the stop was in Lautoka Fiji, we did an all day excursion to Tivua Island, one of our favorite stops. It was about a 45 minute b...

Dravuni Island was one of our smallest stops. Being so small we of course had to take a tender to shore. Once ashore we were able to walk...

Today we arrived at the port in Suva Fiji. There wasn't much of a welcoming party. The town was actually an easy walk from the port b...

Without a booked excursion we had planned to play it by ear after first exploring the town of Apia a bit on foot. However the weather tu...

We arrived in Pago Pago to a small but enthusiastic group greeters performing native dances and calls. By the way - we learned that the a...

Two more days at sea until we reach Pago Pago American Samoa, but this morning there was a beautiful sunrise! Sunri...

Today we were supposed to stop at Tabuaeran Kiribati, aka Fanning Island. For some reason the people who were to provide customs clearanc...

We had a very very busy day on our second day in Oahu! First we woke up at 4:30 am so we could take Lyft to the airport to pick up a ren...

We docked early, around 6:30 am, but we weren't in a hurry to get anywhere today. We've been to Oahu a number of times and tomorr...

We started the day with the best helicopter ride ever! Only downside was having the doors on and as a result reflections in the pictures....

Originally our cruise had been scheduled to stop in Lahaina Maui. Unfortunately due to the horrendous fire they had, that stop was cance...

After five days at sea we were reaching the big island of Hawaii! I, of course, was up bright and early to catch the sunrise. ...

First day of our 51 day cruise in the South Pacific! Up bright and early for an 8:35 am flight from SFO to San Diego. Which meant we had...