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Duration
0 days
Activity Level
Daily shore excursions, guided hikes & outings
Moderate
Season
2026
Discovery Expeditions
Komodo Dragon on Komodo Island
Komodo Island, Indonesia | Credit: Shutterstock
Aerial View of Raja Ampat
Orangutan
Tanjung Puting Reserve, Borneo | Credit: Unsplash
Pink Beach in Komodo Islands
Komodo Islands, Indonesia | Credit: Shutterstock
Whale Shark
Cenderawasih Marine National Park, West Papua | Credit: Sebastian Pena Lambarri
Wakatobi Island
Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia | Credit: Signature Papua
Oceania & Asia
In the Wake of Wallace: Indonesia & Borneo
Highlights
Alison Mackay
Artist in Residence
Alison Mackay is an Australian artist whose work has been shown in numerous solo, group and prize exhibitions over the last 2 decades. Her approach to art is broad-ranging and adventurous, from large botanical oil paintings to tiny drawings of rainforests and reefs made on recycled packaging, Alison’s work covers the genres of still life, landscape and portraiture. It has been included in many prestigious art prizes including The Archibald and Portia Geach (for portraiture), The NSW Parliament’s Plein Air Painting Prize (for landscape) and the Dobell Prize for Drawing.
Balancing Alison’s studio time, her adventurous spirit has taken her to remote and unusual places around the world. Her base in Jervis Bay on the NSW south coast allows her to enjoy activities from kiteboarding and freediving to kayaking and bushwalking. Adventure, both artistic and physical, is at the heart of all her activities.
Alison Mackay will be a Special Guest on our In the Wake of Wallace voyage, departing 24 October 2026.
Gary Shapiro
Orangutan Expert
Gary L. Shapiro, Ph.D., is a writer, researcher, educator, and environmentalist who has devoted more than five decades to understanding and protecting orangutans. In 1973, at Chaffee Zoological Park in Fresno, California, he became the first person to teach a symbolic communication system to an orangutan, Aazk, helping open new pathways for the study of orangutan intelligence and communication.
From 1978 to 1980, and again in 1981, Shapiro worked in Indonesia’s Tanjung Puting Reserve, now Tanjung Puting National Park, where he became the first person to teach sign language to ex-captive orangutans in their native environment. His work with Princess, Rinnie, and other orangutans being rehabilitated for life in the wild formed the basis of his doctoral dissertation and helped demonstrate their cognitive abilities, emotional depth, and capacity for returning to forest life.
Shapiro earned his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Oklahoma in 1985 and later conducted post-doctoral research in freshwater ecology in Tanjung Puting. In 1986, he co-founded Orangutan Foundation International, serving as vice president until 2004, while also pursuing a full-time career in environmental science and emergency response.
In 2004, Shapiro and his wife, Inggriani, founded the Orang Utan Republik Education Initiative, which became the Orang Utan Republik Foundation in 2007. Through education, scholarships, outreach, and responsible ecotourism, he continues to promote Indonesian conservation leadership. His book, Out of the Cage, published in 2024, recounts his half-century journey with orangutans and their conservation.
Gary L. Shapiro will be a special guest on our In the Wake of Wallace: Indonesia & Borneo voyage, departing 24 October 2026.
Inggriani Shapiro
Yoga and Meditation Practitioner
Inggriani Shapiro, a certified yoga therapist with a 900-hour YTRx credential from Loyola Marymount University, joins us alongside her husband, Gary L. Shapiro, aboard the Greg Mortimer for our October 24, 2026, journey from Sorong to Singapore.
She brings a refined and restorative wellness presence shaped by her advanced training and integrative therapeutic background. Her approach is both intuitive and deeply grounded—drawing from Reiki, meditation, and advanced massage therapy to create space for the body to soften, recalibrate, and return to balance. Each session unfolds with quiet intention, offering a sense of ease that feels both immediate and enduring.
Thoughtfully attuned to the rhythm of expedition travel, her sessions emphasize breath, gentle mobility, and subtle energetic alignment, supporting respiratory and lymphatic function while deepening awareness of the body in motion.
Onboard, her presence becomes part of the journey’s cadence—a place to reset between explorations, reconnect after time ashore, and move with greater fluidity throughout the voyage.
Fluent in Bahasa Indonesia, Inggriani, alongside her husband Gary, brings an added dimension to the experience—bridging guests and local communities with a natural ease, enriching cultural encounters through authentic connection and thoughtful exchange.
Inggriani Shapiro will be a special guest on our In the Wake of Wallace: Indonesia & Borneo voyage, departing 24 October 2026.
Richard Morecroft
Broadcaster, Author and Artist
Richard is one of the Australia’s best known media figures, having been the ABC’s nightly TV newsreader for 20 years, the host of many documentary and educational programmes as well as the popular SBS quiz show “Letters and Numbers”.
He has a long-standing commitment to wildlife and the environment. For some years, he hosted his own wildlife show “Richard Morecroft Goes Wild” on ABC-TV, as well as writing and presenting documentaries for the ABC’s Natural History Unit.
He has authored or co-authored several books on wildlife and has been a Trustee of WWF (The World-Wide Fund for Nature).
Richard has also conducted on-stage interviews with a wide range of outstanding individuals, from comedian John Cleese to Australian of the Year Ita Buttrose and even the late Gough Whitlam. He also works with the National Library in Canberra interviewing prominent Australians for its oral history programme – and his YouTube channel “Exhibition – with Richard Morecroft” is dedicated to interviewing visual artists.
His own artworks are in several public collections, including Parliament House, Canberra.
Richard Morecroft will be a Special Guest on our In the Wake of Wallace voyage, departing 24 October 2026.
Meet our Expert Team
Each voyage is accompanied by our highly acclaimed expedition team who we believe are the best in the business. Many are recognized leaders in their fields, keen to share their daily insights on shore and onboard. While your actual team may vary between voyages, every member of our Expedition Team is among the world's best remote area specialists.
Included Activities
Bird Watching
Lectures on wildlife, our environment, history and destinations
Marine Mammal Spotting
Photography
Scenic Cruising
Trips Ashore
Walking
Zodiac Cruising
Wildlife Watching
Paddling
Snorkelling
Stand-Up Paddleboarding
Our Ship
The Greg Mortimer
Capacity
148 Passengers Maximum (130 on Expedition)
Year built
2019
Cabins
76
Length
104m
Decks
8
Speed
10-12 Knots