Once during a weekend getaway as a child, I took notice of the changing flora around me. While heading to the Sonora Desert Museum and Old Tucson, I paid special attention to all of the differences between the saguaro studded desert floor of the “Valley of the Sun” where I am from, (a.k.a. Phoenix and [...]

The Baltic might not be the first place that comes to mind when considering a luxury yacht charter vacation, but during the short Scandinavian summer, it’s a magical place with warm breezes and almost 24 hours of daylight. Even as far south as Stockholm, summer nights never get completely dark, the sky just takes on [...]

The archipelago around Sulawesi and Borneo has been described as an ecological ‘hot spot’. East of Indonesia Archipelago have much terrain varied, from walls and fringing reef to caverns, big Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas), whitetip, leopard and nurse sharks, schooling barracudas, napoleon wrasses, cuttle fish, spanish mackerel, jacks and batfishes, and ornamentalreef fishes hang out [...]