Star Clippers fans! Meet our new Marine Biologist Laura Del Rio Torres. Laura is a native of Spain and is a graduate of universities in both Barcelona and New Jersey. In addition to being a former national champion swimmer and professionally trained dancer, she also is fluent in three languages — Catalan, Spanish and English. [...]

From our last cruise on the Royal Clipper June – July 2011. Fantastic! — Sue Parham

We received our regular update on our adopted dolphin Clipper from The Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute in Italy. Clipper’s been a busy dolphin! From April through June he was seen feeding around the marine fish farm, found in the study area and close to the shoreline. During this period he chose to feed while cooperating [...]

So, now maybe it’s time to start to meditate. When I get up one morning and go up the forward stairs, overlooking the bridge, I listen in silence as the deck hand Remedios rinses the teak sun deck with the green water hose, he sprays every corner and every surface that during the night has [...]

Saturday, March 19, 2011 — Keys Beach It’s huge. North Friar’s in comparison seems to be just the newborn calf close to the adult female of blue whale. When the bus turns for the last time and we start to slowly go down from the hill we have in front of us all the majesty [...]