Archive: Ocean Crossings
A Swim Stop in the Arabian Sea
Julie | August 24, 2009

We received this photo and post from guest Helen McNamara. The “floating hand” and superimposed shark gave us quite the laugh!
Here’s Cruise Director Peter Kissner tempting fate during a swim stop. His signature line is “You are laughing????” heard many times a day. I could not resist using the line here!

Postcards from an Ocean Crossing
Julie | August 19, 2009

Guest Ed Swafford sent in these photos taken during his Athens, Greece, to Goa, India, ocean crossing last fall. Looks like it was a grand adventure!

Port of the Week: Essaouira, Morocco
Julie | August 6, 2009

Royal Clipper makes a maiden call at the port of Essaouira, Morocco, on the 16-night Westbound Crossing from Lisbon, Portugal, to Barbados, departing Oct. 28, 2010.

Portuguese, French and Berber architecture frame the maze-like streets of Essaouira, a western Moroccan city along the Atlantic Ocean. With its long beach, abundant seawater spa treatments and dramatic sunsets, [...]