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At Sea February 8th, 2025 The last of our 6 in a row sea days. Quite honestly, I am loving it, although I am looking forward to Benin tomorrow. When I stopped by Seabourn Square this morning I saw a flyer for Valentine’s Dinner Under the Stars. Now, that sounded...

At Sea February 7th, 2025 This is our last day in the southern hemisphere – it is all going to be in the north from here on, well from when we actually cross the equator at midnight tonight. At his noon announcement the captain said that we were 2 degrees south and...

At Sea February 6th, 2025 A sunny day at last. We are clearly away from the treacherous Skeleton Coast, and now in the pirate infested Gulf of Guinea. Well, it’s not pirate infested as such, but the risk does seem to be out there. In today’s daily program, the...

At Sea February 5th, 2025 The cloudy, hot, muggy weather persists as we head towards the Gulf of Guinea at a snail’s pace, Still, life is fun on board and the champagne continues to flow. Out reconstructed elephant (it fell apart during a move) still graces our...

At Sea February 4th, 2025 The highlight of the morning was the Teddy bear tumble, where an unsuspecting little bear is cast into the abyss of the atrium, with the goal of ending up in what looks like a garbage can. It’s actually a lot less tacky than you would...

At Sea February 3rd, 2025 This is the first of 6 sea days. That’s like doing a transatlantic crossing! Still, Nick and the team are going to keep up busy. As I went past the atrium this morning a noisy game of Baggo was underway. There were 4 talks during the day –...

Walvis Bay, Namibia February 2nd, 2025 Our stay in Walvis Bay was an overnight one, so we were still there in the morning. It was hard to decide how to spend our day. I hadn't booked a tour as I thought we might be exhausted after our safari, and I was also...

Walvis Bay, Namibia February 1st, 2025 We woke up early for our final game drive. I know we have another 4 weeks in Africa, but it felt like this is our last day here. Our mission today was to find lions and elephants. We found neither, but it was still a wonderful...

Onguma Private Game Reserve January 31st, 2025 This morning was our opportunity to check out the hide on the reserve. This was good in several ways, one of which is that we got to sleep in. A hide in a game reserve is a specially designed, concealed structure...

Onguma Private Game Reserve, Namibia January 30th, 2025 We were up and ready for breakfast at 5:30. It had indeed been a very noisy night, but alas no lions roaring. However, any night in the bush is a good night, and I was eager to leave on our game drive at 6:00....

Cape Town, South Africa January 29th, 2025 Today’s the day! We are off on safari again. When our request to leave the ship in Zanzibar, Tanzania and return in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania was rescinded, I expected that our request to leave the ship in Cape Town, South...

Cape Town, South Africa January 28th, 2025 January 28th? That means we only have one more month on Sojourn! These past 2 months have just gone by way too quickly. I looked out of the window early this morning to check that we were no longer at sea, and were on our...