Here is a description of our route through the Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, and Australia.
Map of Route
Bodies of Water
- Pacific Ocean,
- Coral Sea
- Tasman Sea
- Arafura Sea
Route Detail
- Panama west to Galapagos (not shown on map)
- Galapagos west to Marquesas, French Polynesia (not shown on map)
- Cruise Marquesas
- Marquesas west through Tuamotus to Society Islands (Tahiti, Moorea, Bora Bora)
- Cruise Society Islands
- Bora Bora west to Palmerston Atoll, Cook Islands
- Cook Islands west to Vava’u, Tonga
- Cruise northern Tonga
- Cruise Ha’apai Group of Tonga
- Vava’u south to Tongatapu, Tonga
- Tongatapu, Tonga, south to New Zealand
- Cruise and land-travel New Zealand
- New Zealand north to Lautoka, Fiji
- Cruise western Fiji (Viti Levu, Mamanuca Group, Yasawa Islands)
- Fiji Islands west to Vanuatu
- Cruise Vanuatu
- Vanuatu west to Cairnes, Australia (Great Barrier Reef)
- Cairnes, Australia, south to the Whitsunday Islands, Australia
- Cruise Whitsundays
- Whitsunday Islands south to Hervey Bay (Fraser Island), Australia
- Hervey Bay south to the Gold Coast, via the Great Sandy Strait, Australia
- Southport (Gold Coast) south to Sydney, Australia
- Explore Sydney Harbour and environs; land travel to interior (9 months)
- Sydney north to Fraser Island
- Fraser Island to Cairns
- Cruise Great Barrier Reef
- Lizard Island to Cape York
- Cape York west to Darwin
Photographs from this Route (South Pacific)