Martin Kraus
March 2024 · Lima to Guayaquil

Darwin 200

A family leg aboard the three-masted Oosterschelde.

In March 2024, our family joined a leg of the DARWIN200 voyage from Lima, Peru, to Guayaquil, Ecuador, aboard the three-masted Oosterschelde.

Three-masted Oosterschelde under sail at sea
Oosterschelde, the DARWIN200 ship.

Life aboard the historic ship meant learning the rhythms of sailing together. We worked on microplastic filtering during the passage, bringing environmental sampling into a journey built around Darwin’s route.

The wider voyage ran from 2023 to 2025. Our part was that Pacific passage: a ship, a family and practical work with the water we crossed.