John and Mary Kormendy: Seabourn Cruise 2025

This web site contains the pictures from our 80-day Seabourn Cruise from Darwin, Australia, west and south to Broome, Australia, then back to Darwin and on via Indonesian New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Santa Cruz Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, including Tahiti, Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, and the Juan Fernandez Islands, ending up in Santiago, Chile.

This is a dummy placeholder web site: Pictures will be added as I have time through the rest of the trip.

The purpose of this web site is to catalog our memories, not to showcase the trip for public readers. So I include pictures that are not very good when they document sightings that are important to us.

Itinerary and Maps

This shows the itinerary of the second part of our cruise, from August 24 in Broome, Australia, until October 30 in San Antonio (near Santiago), Chile. The first part of our cruise from August 13 to August 24 visits the same places from Broome to Darwin but starts in Darwin and does them in reverse order.

This map shows the part of our Seabourn cruise from Broome, Australia to the Solomon Islands. We chose to begin our cruise in Darwin, Australia, and first cruise from Darwin to Broome with all the stops shown here but in reverse order. They are then repeated on the day numbers of our (formally separate, second) cruise from Broome to Chile. The numbers printed in dark red before each destination name are day numbers out of Broome. Printed in bright red are places where we birded during our 2022 July-August trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea -- see this web site for pictures.

This map shows in more detail our destinations during the next part of our cruise, from the Solomon Islands to French Polynesia. Again, red numbers are day numbers starting with 0 in Broome, Australia. It's a wide map: scroll right to see the full panorama.

To see the relative locations of the last stops on our cruise, we need to shrink the above maps by a lot. The resulting shows destinations from West Papua Indonesia and Papua New Guinea all the way to our final docking in San Antonio, the port of Santiago, Chile. This map was made from the "Windy Waves" web site encoding surface temperature. "Windy Waves" is a superb tool to check weather and sea conditions, especially during an ocean cruise but useful also to check (e. g.) temperatures and rainfall on land.

This shows many of our destinations on a relief map of the Pacific Ocean floor published many years ago by National Geographic. Most islands that we visit are the tips of volcanoes, sometimes in isolated burn-throughs of the Earth's crust and sometimes parts of mountain chains of volcanoes. It is remarkable how many times volcanoes have burned through the relatively thin Earth's crust that makes up the ocean floor. This map wonderfully puts our destinations in a global geoplanetary context.

Trip Birds

Island Birds

Pelagic Birds

Our bird pictures from around the world follow standard ecozones approximately but not exactly:

Birds from the USA and Canada:   our house,   Hornsby Bend and greater Austin,   Texas,   California,   Hawaii,   Canada,

Neotropic birds from Central America and the Caribbean:   Honduras,   Costa Rica,   Panama,   Trinidad and Tobago

Neotropic birds from South America:   Ecuador,   Ecuador 2017,   Brazil.

Western palearctic birds:   Europe: Germany, Finland, Norway,   Europe: United Kingdom,   Europe: Spain,   the Canary Islands,   Europe: Lesbos, Greece,   Israel

Eastern palearctic birds:   China

Birds from Africa:   The Gambia,   South Africa

Indo-Malayan birds from   India: North-west (Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand)   India: North-east (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya)   India: Central (Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh)

Birds from   Australia,   New Zealand.

For our 2014 December trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2016 May-June trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2017 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2018 March trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2018 May trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2018 October trip from Munich to Budapest, Hungary see this travelog.

For our 2018 November trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2019 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2019 July trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2021 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For the 2021 August 3 & 4 migration of Purple martins through Austin, see this web site.

For our 2021 December trip to Ecuador, see this web site.

For our 2022 January-February trip to Peru, see this web site.

For our 2022 July/August trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea, see this web site.

For our 2022 September trip to Bolivia, see this web site.

For our 2022 November-December pre-trip to Argentina (before our Antarctic cruise), see this web site.

For our 2022 November-December cruise to Antarctica, see this web site.

For our 2023 January birding in Chile, see this web site.

For our 2023 January-March cruise from Chile to Antarctica and around South America to Miami, FL, see this web site.

For our 2023 March-April birding in south Florida (after the Seabourn cruise), see this web site.

For our 2023 November-December birding to Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands, and South India, see this web site.

For John's 2024 February-March birding in Colombia, see this web site.

For our 2024 May-June cruise from Iceland to Jan Mayen Island to and around the Svalbard Archipelago, see this web site.

For our 2024 June 25-30 stay in Paris, see this web site.

For our 2025 April 21 - May 3 trip to High Island, Texas, see the present web site.

For our 2025 July vacation and birding in Singapore, see this web site.

For our 2025 August birding in north-west Australia, see this web site.

For our 2025 August-October Seabourn cruise from Australia to Chile, see this web site.

For our 2026 January-February trip to New Zealand and 3rd cruise to Antarctica, see this web site.