Day 95 - At Sea - April 9th Coffee Chat Grand Voyages, particularly the Grand World Voyage, have more onboard activities than your normal Holland America cruise. One of those is resident clergy. Today during Coffee Chat, all three of the clergy were guests: Rabbi Gan,...
Day 94 – At Sea - April 8th Walvis Bay turned out to be a very nice port, even though we didn’t do very much except visit the mall and the Lagoon Waterfront. On a future visit we look forward to taking advantage of other opportunities. The outlook for our upcoming...
Day 93, Walvis Bay, Namibia - April 7th Namibia looked bleak from the ship as the first lines went across to start our mooring to the commercial wharf here in Walvis Bay. Off in the distance I could make out some of the sand dunes that are a feature of some of the...
Day 92 - At Sea - April 6th It was nice to have a sea day, after almost a straight week of being in port. No Coffee Chat this morning because there was a crew emergency training drill. We stuck to our routine: Me playing Hold-em twice and losing both tournaments. Judy...
Day 91 – April 5th, Cape Town South Africa After getting up early for most of the last week, we slept in this morning and left the ship around noon. The skies were clear blue but looking over at table Mountain there is a small clump of clouds at the summit right...
Day 90 - April 4th - Cape Town, South Africa Archbishop Desmond Tutu The Amsterdam would have a special guest this afternoon, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who would receive the first Shared Humanity Award from Holland America in recognition of a lifetime championing...
Day 89 – Kambaku River Sands – Safari Day 4 - April 3, 2018 https://youtu.be/h81vBD_2sPg Morning Game Drive This morning we stayed in our cabin until a few minutes before 5 AM and went directly to the admin building to join the game drive. It saved us walking to the...
Day 88 – Kambaku River Sands – Safari Day 3 --- April 2, 2018 Here is a video summary of the two game drives we took today. https://youtu.be/ZylSHdcvc-o Early Morning Wakeup With the threat of rain gone, we were looking forward to our first early morning drive. The...
Day 87 - Kambaku River Sands - Safari Day 2 Here is a 1 minute 21 second video that shows some highlights from the second day of our safari: https://youtu.be/yzIbsRr3IGc Here is a video animation that shows the route of our safari game drive. The total distance...
Day 86 Mar 31st Maputo and Safari Day 1 This is the first post of a 4 part series that describes how we planned our 2018 safari along with details from the trip. Links to the next day posts are located at the bottom of each post. Here is a 1 minute video of or first...