Around-the-Clock Food, Festivities and Fun on a Coastal Cruise

A small cruise ship takes around 100 passengers to see what the cities by American rivers and coasts have to offer.

The American Eagle plies the waters on an American Cruise Line Historic South and Golden Isles Intra-Coastal Waterway Cruise. Photo courtesy of American Cruise Lines

I looked tentatively at the load of shrimp, blue crabs, gar, sea trout and other denizens of the deep as they were dropped into the boat. Even more tentatively, I volunteered to hold one and found myself making eye contact with a very cute stingray, and I’m pretty sure we had a moment.

The author enjoys a personal encounter with a stingray during an excursion on a shrimp boat during the American Cruise Line Historic South and Golden Isles Intra-Coastal Waterway Cruise. Photo courtesy of Victor Block