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Guest Stories
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Guest Stories.
Our guests come from everywhere. Some are sailors. Most are not. What they share is that the ocean surprised them — usually in ways they did not expect. These are their accounts.
Coming soon
The first guest stories are being written.
Stories are published throughout the voyage season — field notes, dispatches and accounts from the ocean. Check back, or explore one of the other categories below.
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Other categories.
Six other editorial threads — from crew field notes to wildlife records, expedition reports to guest dispatches.
01· Stories
Journal
Field notes and route reports from our captains and crew — logbook entries from the open ocean.
Read Stories 02· StoriesExpeditions & Discoveries
Dispatches from the expedition voyages — crossing passages, frontier coastlines and rarely-visited waters.
Read Stories 03· StoriesCrew Stories
The people who sail. Captains, deckhands and naturalists write about the ocean they work on every day.
Read Stories 04· StoriesOcean Conservation
Conservation in practice — the reef, the cetaceans, the coastline and the work being done to protect them.
Read Stories 05· StoriesCoastal Culture
Sri Lanka's maritime culture from the inside — harbour life, fishing communities, coastal cuisine and history.
Read Stories 06· StoriesWildlife & Nature
Blue whales, whale sharks, spinner dolphins and the full spectrum of marine and coastal wildlife encountered at sea.
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