![\"Alaska-bear\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alaska-bear.jpg\")
<\/a>As close to a grizzly <\/span>as we've ever been — or ever want to be — in Alaska.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nToday at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>American Queen more popular than ever<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Royal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas<\/a> Animals make for great photo subjects everywhere — how many "cute" pictures do you get in your in-box? They're especially photogenic, it seems, when you're in a foreign country, having disembarked from a cruise ship. Below is a sample of the creatures big and small, lovable and not, that we have encountered… As close to… Continue reading A Picture's Worth A Thousand Animals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,31,15],"tags":[137,912,72,35,395,26,27,33],"class_list":["post-22862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-navigator-of-the-seas","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>On cruises, sea gulls are everywhere…after all, we're the ones invading their environments. These ones happened to be off the starboard side of the ship, in Cabo San Lucas.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>Nobody goes to Costa Rica without seeing a menacing crocodile (is that an oxymoron) — this fellow was entertainment (?) on a shore excursion in Puntarenas.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>Butterflies aren't always free, are they? This one was accessible at a farm outside Belize City, and you don't know what you've missed if you've never seen a Belizean butterfly.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>Roatan, Honduras, is one of the places where you can swim with the dolphins and we did, for the first time. We have dozens of (purchased) pictures to show for it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>Eagles are irresitible for photographers, no matter how many times they've been shot (photographically) and you almost always find them at the top of a tree…even naked ones like this.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n\t7 nights<\/span>
\n\tJanuary 25, 2015<\/span>
\n\tGalveston<\/a> (return): <\/span>Roatan<\/a>, <\/span>Belize<\/a>, <\/span>Cozumel<\/a>
\n\tInside: $349<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $49<\/strong>
\n\twww.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"