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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 When our request to leave the ship in Zanzibar, Tanzania and return in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania was rescinded, I expected that our request to leave the ship in Cape Town, South...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...

At Sea January 27th, 2025 I heard our anchor on the move at 7:00, exactly when Captain Hamish said we would set off. I was expecting to experience rough seas and stormy weather, but although it was overcast, wet and windy, there were no huge waves. No spray over...

Mossel Bay, South Africa January 27th, 2025 We have never been to Mossel Bay before, but have heard about it for many years from our friends who have a home here. We were so excited to finally get to see their home. Mossel Bay is a tender port, and we anchored out...

Port Elizabeth, South Africa January 25th, 2025 It was a lovely bright sunny morning. There were no fights at the port gate this morning, but it was still a challenge for Ian and Hillary to get in, but they eventually prevailed. This morning’s trip was to the...

Port Elizabeth, South Africa January 24th, 2025 It was a very humid overcast day when we woke up in Port Elizabeth. We will be here for 2 days. I do love it when we have an overnight stay in a port, I wish we could do this more often. Although the name of the city...