Wildlife & Wilderness

While all of our yacht cruises focus on cruising "off the beaten path," two of our destinations are specifically tailored to take advantage of all that Mother Nature has to offer.

In Southeast Alaska, we travel through the largest national forest in the United States - home to grizzly bears, black bears, mountain goats, bald eagles and wolves. On our way to view Alaska's massive glaciers, we enter some of the world's deepest fjords. In the still of the evening, we watch bears ambling along wild shorelines. And everywhere in the swirling currents below, the world's largest mammals, the great whales, forage in bountiful waters along the sheltered coastline. Our extended time exploring nature's hideaways reveals humpback whales time and time again exploding as a group out of the depths in a feeding phenomenon called "bubblenetting."  You are there - meeting Alaska and its wildlife at eye level.

Just south of California lies an inland sea that is rightfully labeled one of the richest marine environments on the globe. Known as the Gulf of California, Sea of Cortez, or Sea of Cortés and bordered by the arid Baja California Peninsula and Mexican mainland, life in the Sea of Cortés flourishes. Over 3,000 plant species have been identified in the desert, some of which grow nowhere else on earth, and in the sea, over 6,000 animal species have been identified. From the 100-foot-long blue whale to the quiet beauty of bountiful reefs, the Sea of Cortés is, in a word, indescribable.