When you’re in the hunt for the world’s finest marine wilderness encounters, you want a ship-based platform for exploring. And that’s the place our companion Lindblad Expeditions is available in.
Focused solely on small-ship expedition cruising since 1979, Lindblad will get you closest to wild nature at sea, with excellent naturalist guides and exploratory modes, from kayaks and snorkeling to distant underwater cameras. And the good information is, there’s last-minute area accessible on a number of expeditions early in 2023!
Imagine your self in Antarctica…this winter! There’s nonetheless room on choose departures of Journey to Antarctica: The White Continent aboard the 148-passenger National Geographic Explorer. It’s the austral summer season, and also you’ll take in near-24-hour daylight as you cruise amongst colossal icebergs and share the pristine polar wilderness with seals, orcas, whales and big penguin colonies—that is the season to observe fuzzy hatchlings rising up.
In the world’s final nice wilderness, the solitude is damaged solely by its teeming wildlife. Hear the cacophony as you stroll amongst hundreds of penguins, watch seals solar on drifting icebergs and whales leap off the bow.
Lindblad has been taking explorers to Antarctica for greater than 50 years. No one has extra expertise. You’ll journey with prime consultants together with polar naturalists, zoologists, marine biologists, undersea specialists and National Geographic photographers.
Travelers mountaineering in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica.
Prefer your winter voyage in hotter climes? Explore Costa Rica & the Panama Canal from the National Geographic Quest. Go ashore to find rain forest wildlife in distant nationwide parks, in search of sloths, white-faced capuchins, scarlet macaws, toucans, blue morpho butterflies, and way more. As you transit the Panama Canal, cease en route at Barro Colorado Nature Monument to discover with guides from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Lindblad friends in Zodiacs with an grownup California Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) in Magdalena Bay close to Puerto Lopez Mateos on the Pacific aspect of the Baja Peninsula, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Each winter hundreds of California grey whales migrate from the Bering and Chuckchi seas to breed and calf within the heat water lagoons of Baja. This is the furthest south of the three main such lagoons.
If you’re captivated with marine life, you’ll be without end spoiled for whale watching once you be part of Lindblad Among the Great Whales, a Baja expedition aboard the National Geographic Venture that takes place in January and February. Giant grey whales spend the winter within the heat lagoons of Mexico, birthing and nurturing their younger earlier than migrating north to Alaska later within the spring. Curious, playful, and pleasant, they usually method our Zodiacs for close-up views and mutual curiosity.
There’s no place on the planet with extra prolific and different whale sightings than Baja. On this whale-focused expedition you might come inside an arm’s size of a 30-ton grey whale—certainly one among life’s best thrills! On excursions by Zodiac, kayak and on foot, discover mangroves, comb pristine seashores coated with tiny shells, and wander coastal dunes. Plus, we’ll enterprise into the Sea of Cortez on this unusual journey that offers us a uncommon probability to seek for even greater whales—blue whales, the most important creature ever to reside on Earth!
It’s a uncommon alternative to have the ability to ebook a Lindblad journey this near departure. Choose the winter journey that animates you, and stay up for a peerless nature immersion.
