Sail the Leviathan

A journal about our travel and adventures…

  • Taj Mahal

    Rolled right off the flight from London, through immigration, and met GK – our guide for the entire trip – at arrivals holding a sign with my name on it. Our driver, Kishore, rolled up in a Toyota SUV packed… Continue reading

    Taj Mahal

  • Unscheduled Doha Stop-over

    Final morning. We are up at 6, finish packing our bags, quick muesli yogurt and coffee around the camp fire, then we are out on the boat cruising back down the delta. It is a peaceful morning with yet another… Continue reading

    Unscheduled Doha Stop-over

  • Okavango Swim

    Relatively late wake-up this morning (6:15 am) because we are going to be out all day driving and then get on a boat to a remote island up the delta. Continental breakfast at camp, to-go coffees, and we are off.… Continue reading

    Okavango Swim

  • Animal Crackers

    Drive starts at 6 am. It is a bit colder this morning but we have our game drive gear well practiced at this point in the trip. We start slow, checking the camp lagoon for evening activity, stopping frequently to… Continue reading

    Animal Crackers

  • This is SAFARI!

    5:30 wakeup call with tea and coffee delivered to our tent and warm water in a jug in the head for washing up. Very VIP. A quick muffin and travel mugs filled with coffee to go and we are on… Continue reading

    This is SAFARI!

  • Time to go mobile

    Title to be spoken using “Bane voice” (Batman Returns, Christopher Nolan)… The morning drive starts out leisurely. Lasty spotted leopard tracks in the road a couple of places so we crawled along seeing if we could spot it. We did… Continue reading

    Time to go mobile

  • Adventuring will continue until morale improves

    This morning is even warmer than the previous and so we only put on our light canvas safari jackets for the morning drive. Just outside camp there is a line of trucks in the grass all jockeying for a sight… Continue reading

    Adventuring will continue until morale improves

  • Tasteful Side Elephant

    First morning in Moremi and it is significantly warmer than Savuti, we almost forego wearing beanies and down jackets but err on the side of being too warm. Derek has been suffering from camera lens envy since he is still… Continue reading

    Tasteful Side Elephant

  • How to tell the age of an elephant

    This morning is noticeably warmer than the previous two days, although still cold enough for puffer jackets and beanies. The morning drive is pretty quiet. The lion pride is on the move but walking inconveniently in some thick brush parallel… Continue reading

    How to tell the age of an elephant

  • Pretty, pretty good

    Since we’ve already had phenomenal success with leopards and lions, it is time to try and beat the odds by finding the singular cheetah that has been seen in the park. We head south into the Savuti marshes. The scenery… Continue reading

    Pretty, pretty good