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    Worldwide Adventures by Boat and Ship
    Worldwide Adventures by Boat and Ship
    Worldwide Adventures by Boat and Ship
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    Worldwide Adventures by Boat and Ship

    By Jim Hendrickson

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    This new book describes many adventurous trips that the author has taken by boat or ship to many countries and regions of the world. It is divided by specific areas such an the Arctic, Europe, Oceania, and the United States.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJim Hendrickson
    Release dateFeb 10, 2023
    ISBN9798215559673
    Worldwide Adventures by Boat and Ship
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    Jim Hendrickson

    Jim Hendrickson is a retired Professor of Spanish and English as a Second Language. He speaks English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese. He has taught elementary school, high school, adult education, community college, college, and university in seven states. He worked as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Bolivia and Chile, and a Language Consultant for the United States Peace Corps in Belize.  Jim has received many teaching and publishing awards including the Distinguished Faculty Award at Lansing Community College in Michigan, the Stephen A. Freeman Award for authoring the best article on teaching techniques to have appeared in a professional journal in 1980, and an award for writing the best article published in The Modern Language Journal in 1978. Jim has traveled in over 150 countries and is an avid long-distance tour bicyclist. He has cycled extensively in the United States, as well as in Europe, Africa, Australia, and on various islands in Oceania. He has presented over 500 travelogues in many schools, churches, libraries, museums, senior and community centers, city auditoriums, as well as on radio and television shows, and has been featured in numerous American and international newspapers. Jim has published more than 60 foreign language textbooks including The Spice of Life (Harcourt), Our Global Village (Harcourt), Poco a poco (Heinle & Heinle), Intercambios (Heinle & Heinle), Nuevas dimensiones (Heinle & Heinle), and Nuevas alturas (Heinle & Heinle). One of his best-selling books, Poco a poco, has been reconfigured into a best-selling book, Plazas: Lugar de Encuentros (Heinle & Heinle). He is also the author of another best seller: Spanish Grammar Flipper (Christopher Lee). Jim has also published articles on psycholinguistics in Foreign Language Annals, TESOL Quarterly, The Modern Language Journal, The Canadian Modern Language Review, and Hispania. Jim has published the following thirteen travel ebooks about his adventures and misadventures: Like a Leaf on a River, North to Alaska!, Vagabond on a Bicycle, Travel is my Passion, Shalom, Israel!, RVing to the Land of the Midnight Sun, Heaven on Earth, Around the World in Thin Slices, South Pacific Odyssey, My Endless Pursuit of Travel, Baja Adventure!, Strange Tales of Jefferson County, and Footloose in Southern South America.

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      Book preview

      Worldwide Adventures by Boat and Ship - Jim Hendrickson

      WORLDWIDE ADVENTURES

      BY BOAT AND SHIP

      Europe, Arctic, North America,

      Oceania, Australia, and Antarctica

      Jim Hendrickson

      Copyright © 2023  

      All rights reserved

      Distributed by Draft2Digital

      E-books by Jim Hendrickson

      LIKE A LEAF ON A RIVER (Travels of a Young Man)

      THE RESTLESS GLOBETROTTER (Germany, Greece, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Cook Islands, and Marquesas Islands)

      NORTH TO ALASKA! (Montana to Alaska by Bicycle)

      SHALOM, ISRAEL! (Washington State to Israel by Bicycle)

      VAGABOND ON A BICYCLE (100,000 Miles and 100 Cultures on a Bike)

      TRAVEL IS MY PASSION (Memoirs of a World Traveler)

      RVing TO THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN (Washington State to Alaska)

      AROUND THE WORLD IN THIN SLICES (From Asia Through the Northwest Passage)

      SOUTH PACIFIC ODYSSEY (Marquesas and Mariana Islands, South Australia, American Samoa, Samoa, and Indonesia)

      HEAVEN ON EARTH (Travels of a Restless Soul)

      MY ENDLESS PURSUIT OF TRAVEL (Western, Northern, and Central Canada, Minnesota, Colorado, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, and Kosovo)

      BAJA ADVENTURE! (San Diego to San Lucas)

      STRANGE TALES OF JEFFERSON COUNTY (Stories from a World Traveler at Home)

      FOOTLOOSE IN SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and the Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas)

      WANDERLUST IS IN MY BLOOD (Sardinia, Corsica, Malta, Sicily, Germany, Ukraine, Republic of Georgia, and Armenia)

      COWBOYS, INDIANS, AND ME (Montana, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and North Dakota)

      ISLAND-HOPPING IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC (Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, and Samoa)

      WORLDWIDE ADVENTURES BY BOAT & SHIP (Europe, Arctic, North

      America, Oceania, Australia, and Antarctica)  

      RVing AROUND FABULOUS FLORIDA (From Tip to Toe)

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      PREFACE

      EUROPE

      Cruising the Dalmatian Coast

      A Love(ly) Cruise in Russia

      Odd Man Out at Sea

      ARCTIC

      Bound for Spitsbergen!

      In Search of Polar Bears

      Wildlife, Icebergs, and History

      Visiting Greenland’s West Coast

      Into the Northwest Passage

      Adventures in the High Arctic

      Island-Hopping in the Arctic

      The Remote Nunavut Territory

      NORTH AMERICA

      Whale Watching in Baja

      A Whale of a Day!

      The Aquarium of the World

      OCEANIA

      Marquesas Islands Aboard Aranui 2

      Arrival at Nuku Hiva

      Welcome Aboard Aranui 5!

      A Day at Sea

      Arrival in the Marquesas

      Ua Pou

      Hiva Oa

      Fatu Hiva

      Tahuata

      Ua Huka

      Return to Nuku Hiva and Pou

      Another Day at Sea

      Rangiroa

      Society Islands: Bora Bora

      AUSTRALIA

      Murray River Cruise

      ANTARCTICA

      Voyage to Antarctica

      About the author

      PREFACE

      Over the past sixty years of traveling the world, I have visited over 150 countries and all seven continents. During that long period, one of my favorite modes of travel has been by boat and ship. What is the difference between those two types of vessels? After researching the answer to that question, I learned that it depends on whom you ask. When discussing the difference between a ship and a boat, the first thing that comes to mind is their size. Traditionally, people considered ships as large vessels, whereas boats are comparatively much smaller. A sea-going friend once told me: A ship can carry a boat, but a boat cannot carry a ship.

      Technically, vessels that weigh at least 500 tons are categorized as ships, which are mainly constructed to transport cargo and passengers across oceans, high seas, and other large bodies of water. These include ocean liners, oil tankers, cargo ships, container ships, battleships, and aircraft carriers. In contrast, boats operate mainly in smaller, more restricted waters than ships, and are used for recreational purposes, fishing, and transporting fewer people than ships do.

      Boats include ferries, canoes, kayaks, sailboats, yachts, windjammers, motorboats, ski boats, speed boats, fishing boats, houseboats, barges, tug boats, deck boats, lifeboats, pontoons, rowboats, dinghies, tenders, zodiacs, rafts, catamarans, cuddy boats, trawlers, ferries, center console boats, bass boats, bay boats, bowerbird boats, utility boats, and submarines. Moreover, boats are simple vessels with less complicated equipment than ships, which use heavy machinery and have complex navigational systems, often operated by professionally-trained engineers and navigators. Finally, a boat is usually powered by one or more motors, by sails, or by human force.

      This book contains thirty chapters in which I describe some of my most adventurous trips by boat and ship in various parts of the world. Those nautically-themed chapters, which are excerpted from some of my travel books, are arranged here according to six geographical areas and can be read in any order of your choosing. Bon voyage!

      －Jim Hendrickson

      EUROPE

      INTRODUCTION

      In addition to the voyages described in this section, I have made others in Europe, including the following routes:

      * Amsterdam, Netherlands to Budapest, Hungary

      * Amsterdam, Netherlands to Constanza, Romania

      * Brindisi, Italy to Piraeus, Greece (roundtrip)

      * Calais, France to Dover, England

      * Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan to Turkmenistan)

      * Gibraltar to Tangier, Morocco (roundtrip, twice)

      * Gőteberg, Sweden to Frederikshavn, Demark

      * Lymington, England to Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England (roundtrip, twice)

      * Rhine River Cruise in Germany (twice)

      * Bergen, Norway to Kirkenes, Norway (roundtrip)

      * Skagen, Denmark to Larvik, Norway

      1

      Cruising the Dalmatian Coast

      Ibooked a tour called Dalmatian Island Cruise with Explore Worldwide, a company based in the United Kingdom. Outside the airport terminal in Split, Croatia, I waited 20 minutes for Bus No. 37, which bulged to over capacity with locals and travelers bound for the small town of Trogir. Although the half-hour ride was uncomfortable because I had to stand up all the way with my suitcase and backpack, the trip was worth the ticket of US $2.00. If I had taken a taxi, the cost would have been much higher.

      In Trogir, a historic harbor on the Adriatic coast, I left the motorized sardine can on wheels and entered a town teeming with throngs of visitors from all over the world. Trogir, with a population of approximately 14,000, is one of the best-preserved medieval cities in Europe, now on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

      My first order of business in Trogir was to locate my guesthouse, in which I had reserved a room. However, no one with whom I spoke recognized the name of the street on which my accommodation was located. Finally, I asked an attractive young woman employee in a small clothing store to telephone the guesthouse on my behalf, which she kindly did. Luckily, it was only a few narrow streets away.

      Within a few minutes, Ivana, a tall fortyish blond woman, and owner of the guesthouse came to meet me. I quickly grabbed my suitcase, donned my backpack, and followed her to the centuries-old residence, located down a five-foot-wide street with many twists and turns. In Ivana's home, she led me to my small room, which was adequate for my simple needs: a double bed, a super tiny bathroom with a minimalist shower, a small flatscreen TV, a wall air-conditioner, and WiFi. It was worth the reasonable price of 35 Euros (US $42).

      After a hot shower and snack, I relaxed for an hour, then wandered about Trogir's Old Town, a picturesque place, but overrun with tourists. I doubt that I would ever return there again, particularly during the tourist season because I don't care for hordes of people swarming about me like bees in a honeycomb.

      Feeling a bit hungry, I stopped at a fast food stand and enjoyed a large Croatian beer called Karlovaĉko, along with a huge juicy cheeseburger with the works. I also exchanged some US dollars into Croatian kuna at a local bank. Otherwise, the clerks at the Currency Exchanges in town really rip off visitors by offering them a very low exchange rate, plus an astounding 25% commission! Like all mortals, I suppose crooks must make a living.

      In the late afternoon, I became lost for about an hour in Trogir's intricate, mesmerizing maze of narrow, winding streets filled with gawking, loud-mouthed visitors. Hundreds of restaurants, cafes, and guesthouses lined the streets, clearly making Trogir a tourist haven.

      The following morning, I walked to the harbor and found the Mila Majka, a small wooden boat on which I had booked a one-week cruise along the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia. I asked the captain, a 52-year-old man with a long ponytail, if I could bring aboard the luggage I stored at Ivana's guesthouse. He told me to return later between noon and one o'clock with my small suitcase and backpack. I thanked him, and later I retrieved my luggage from the guesthouse, returned to the boat, and stowed it near the bow.

      After strolling around town for several hours, I returned to the harbor and discovered that the Mila Majka had vanished along with my luggage, passport, and the bulk of my money! I asked several dock workers where the boat had gone, but no one knew. But don't worry, a vendor told me. It will come back. It won't leave without you.

      And she was correct: two hours later, the Mila Majka sailed back to its berth, having simply moved to allow other tour boats to arrive and depart the busy esplanade. What a relief! Lesson learned: carry your passport and money in a secure place on your body, leave them with a trustworthy person, or lock them up in a safety deposit box.

      The Mila Majka has 10 twin-bedded cabins, each with a small wash basin, four tiny heads or bathrooms, plus a dining room, and a spacious sundeck located two decks above the cabins. I went below deck to my cabin, where I met Peter, my British

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