Private volcanic island expeditions.
A remote world, reached by sea. Twelve guests, six suites, four sailings a year.
By day, the island is a sanctuary. By night, the mountain remembers.
Kairo rose from the southern ocean without a name, four hundred miles from the nearest chart. It is private, unhurried and never quite still. Guests share it with no one else.
- Twelve guestsper sailing, and no one else on the island
- Three fallsthat leave the rim and never reach the sea
- One mountainthat glows on the nights it chooses to
Reached by sea, and only by sea.
- Day 1 · Dusk
Depart Port Sable
The expedition vessel Meridian leaves the harbour with twelve guests and a crew of nine. Dinner is served as the coast goes dark.
- Day 2 · Open water
Thirty-six hours south
A long swell, then the cloud shelf. You will see the summit before you see the sea beneath it.
- Day 3 · Before dawn
Landfall
A tender to the lee cove, a cable-car cut into the cliff, and coffee on the terrace as the falls catch first light.
The summit, before the sea beneath it.
Six suites. One island. Nothing ordinary.
The suites are cut into the leeward cliff, two guests each, with basalt walls, wool, linen and glass that opens onto the falls. One long table, one cook, no signal and no schedule.
Concept studies of the KAIRO destination.
Beyond the surface.
A basalt passage leads from the cliff to a chamber beneath the mountain, where the island keeps its warm water. Guests walk it by lamplight before the terrace opens for the evening.
The mountain is never still.
Concept sequence.
Four sailings a year. Twelve places each.
Thirty-six hours aboard the Meridian
Sailings leave Port Sable on Friday at dusk. The passage is part of the expedition: cabins for twelve, a galley crew of three, and an open bridge for anyone who wants the night watch.
- Passage
- 36 hours each way
- Vessel
- Expedition yacht, 12 guests
- Landing
- Tender to the lee cove
Six suites in the leeward cliff
Each suite is cut for two, with a private terrace and a wall of glass on the falls. Wool, linen, basalt and warm water. Nothing that hums.
- Suites
- Six, two guests each
- Nights
- Five on the island
- Signal
- None, by design
Guided exploration
Two island guides walk the summit route at dawn, the passage to the thermal chamber by lamplight, and the rim path where the falls leave the island. Every walk is optional; every walk is small.
- Guides
- Two, resident
- Routes
- Summit, interior, rim
- Group
- Never more than six
One long table
Dinner is served once, for everyone, at a basalt table that seats fourteen. The cook works from what the Meridian carries and what the island grows on its northern terraces.
- Seatings
- One, each evening
- Cellar
- Carried south on every sailing
- Breakfast
- On your terrace
Season II
Four sailings between October and March, when the southern swell is kindest. Each sailing is seven nights door to door: two at sea, five on the island.
- Sailings
- October · November · January · February
- Places
- Twelve per sailing
- Enquiries
- Answered personally
Some places are worth the journey.
Kairo, at the waterline.
Request a private itinerary.
Tell us who you are travelling with and which sailing you have in mind. Enquiries are answered personally, in order of arrival, within a few days.
- 01Your enquiry reaches the expedition office.
- 02A conversation about the passage, the island and the season.
- 03A private itinerary, written for your sailing.