We had an amazing day at St Martin’s, on the French side, which included swimming lots, eating amazing food and some people did shopping in the boutiques. We we’re all set to sail through the Drake Passage by the US and British Virgin Islands. Watch 6 saw a weird whale that looked a little…...

Today we continued our sail from Dominica to St. Martin (a surprise port!). We started out too fast on our sail but today we were able to level out and get a perfect speed. The whole day we were surrounded by different Caribbean Islands with vast mountains and lots of…...

Yesterday was the first day of school for semester 2, and we haven managed to do a deep ship cleaning. We also set sail for our second country of the semester, to St Martin. Everybody is feeling excited for this surprised port. In general the day was relaxed, everybody went…...

This morning, after colours and chores, everyone got ready for a day of hiking. We got on buses and headed about 2 hours away from the ship to the Morne Trois Piton National Park. We hiked an hour through the rainforest seeing a variety of fruit trees, and bugs and…...

Welcome to Waitukubuli! (Know to us as Dominica) Today was our first day at shore! We started off our day with breakfast, Colours, and chores, like everyday. From there we went on an adventure, starting with: Watch Olympics! While waiting for everyone to get a Zodiacs to shore floaties swam,…...

On 31 December 2022, the Alexander von Humboldt 2 left Suriname and is now heading to Barbados. All of Class Afloat came together to finish provisioning. A special boat docked along side the ship, that had extra food for provisioning. We then set our sails and began our journey to…...

We’re in the jungle! Yesterday we arrived in Paramaribo to find we couldn’t berth and had to move deeper down the river to Paranam. Expecting to be off ship by 1300, we were all packed and ready for a day out around the city, which mostly would have been at…...

Hinweis eines externen Beobachters: Der ab dem 3.12 2022 vermisste Elf Kraig ist aufgetaucht! Er hatte sich bei auf dem Schiff verlaufen. Um nicht ganz alleine zu sein, hatte er sich mit dem roten Expansionsbehälter angefreundet und war dann dort geblieben. Peter     Liebe ALEX-II-Freunde,   heute berichtet mal…...

Daily Update – Liv   Yesterday, in honour of Christmas Eve, we commenced our Deck Olympics, planned by Pasha and Jacob. In this event, Watches 1 through 6 competed against each other and an elite team of Alex II Stamm Crew.   To start, Michael and Bernd judged a Clar…...

The 23rd consisted of waiting for the 24th. It was the last day of class before a long, well-deserved break. We’re all very tired and staying focused in class is hard, but we’ve almost finished the Atlantic crossing. The day went by very fast and ended with a fun Christmas…...