HG Safari

So much happening in the hyperverse, not all of it Halloweeny, here are a few stories you may have missed:
three fun destinations for Halloween, out of the dozens available
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/spooktober.html
the return of the talk show dedicated to Opensim
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/inworld-review-retur...
ANd then, safarying fun with Vic:
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/tunnel-vision.html
and - hilariously - with Star:
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/one-for-road.html
also with the RP folk of Wyldwood Bayou
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/role-models.html
and philosophically, with Dings and Uta:
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/serenity-now.html
All this plus Neverworld's 10th birthday
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/nwg-hits-decade.html
a story of cholera and curiosity
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/dr-snow-and-water.ht...
and finally, Taarna Welles' continuing adventure with mesh, animesh, and AI
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/at-home-with-hopsons...

Opensim is so much more than the hatey-whiney folk who so often try to dominate the front page of this site with their pointless drama, and then (which is really low rent) blame their health when they get called on it.
If you're an emotional adult, you may find the following news from around Opensim interesting. We are at the halfway point of this HG Safari season, here are a few recent posts you may have missed.
Our inworld goodbye to Mal Burns - watch the video too if you can, it's lovely
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-life-in-review.htm...
A chance to be part of a dancing troupe here in Opensim for the Xmas holidays
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/dancing-on-counterea...
Jimmy Olsen's weather-beaten Scandinavian wonderland
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/09/gorgeous-norge.html
An intriguing medieval masterpiece by Lilly Topas
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/09/wonders-of-washago.h...
An outstanding recreation of Old Paris by Glenn Dayafter
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/arte-and-montmartre....
the heartwarming forest build by Pasha Theas, lovingly maintained by Clairwil Oh
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-witching-hour.html
and finally, Wyldwood Bayou grid celebrates its 5th anniversary
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/10/wyld-five.html

The new Safari season is well underway, and here are a few posts about places we've been to so far...
A really clever Maze by Forest Azure and Poppy Fields that entertains and promotes hypergrid adventures. OSgrid features heavily in this new season - join us if you can, there are 8 weeks of trips ahead of us, upcoming tours are always advertised on OSW in Events, it's Wednesdays at 12 noon SLT.
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/09/forest-in-fall.html
Cherry Manga's new build - lots to see, to experience, to freebieze
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/09/safari-gets-desolate...
A trip to a Russian language grid where we made some new friends (which is kind of the point of Safari)
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-red-safari.html
A trip to see the legendary Lofoten Islands, on SoA BAD and Siwas' grid - always a delight!
Plus this post about a 9/11 memorial on LFGrid .
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/09/9-11.html

HG Safari returns next Wednesday at 12 noon SLT with ten more weeks of trips around the opensim hyperverse. Over the summer, there have been a few posts on the blog that may interest you, including these three:
About Mal Burns, who died last month
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/07/remembering-mal-burn...
News of a big build, Raven Gate, on 10th Dimension Grid,
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/07/out-of-gate.html
An interview with the good people of WAYLF and their fans - Opensimworld's biggest and most successful group
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/08/finders-keepers.html
In the picture: one of the Destinations for next week's Safari, Desolate Expanse by Cherry Manga

If you're inworld tomorrow at 1pm, don't miss the Fashion Show/art install over on Karima Hoisan's sim on Kitely - full details here https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/05/from-paper-to-pixel....
and this week's tours - two places you should definitely explore on Creanovale https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-tout-sweet-safari....
and on Pangea
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/05/queen-of-paths.html
no lack of great builds in Opensim!

Another Safari just about to get underway, but if you can't join us, you may enjoy reading about places around the HG. For example
Maia Antarra invited the Safari to Satori (shown in the photo)
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/05/on-satori.html
Learn all about Bloom Peters' new MIDI tool, currently under development
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/05/blooms-midi-magic.ht...
Guinguette region a must for art lovers is back online on Ignis
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-return-of-guingu...
and of course...
The new camping event about to happen on AMV
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/05/amv-blue.html

First, just a general piece of advice.
If Xenon Darrow ever offers to drive you somewhere, and if there is a bus involved in her plans, make sure your travel insurance is up to date.
Here's a roundup of recent stuff in opensim that ended up on the HG Safari blog.
An unusual Easter Hunt that starts on April 20
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/04/easter-hunt-at-mana....
Some pics from the first hours of OSGrid coming back online
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/04/wb-osgrid.html
HOW HAS OSGRID going offline affected people who rent sims to OSGrid folk? Interviews with Unadecal Masala, and Prince of Amor
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/04/una-iars-and-oars.ht...
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/04/princes-maze.html
THE NEW SEASON of HG Safari premiered with a memorable trip to Iceland by Jimmy Olsen, guided by Xenon Darrow + bus.
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/04/safari-ferast-um-isl...
and then to the outstanding SoA BAD build Nurburgring
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/04/safari-does-bad-driv...
AND FINALLY a summary of what happened at the Hypergrid International Expo, a multi language conference with art and talks and a lotta publicity booths. The Expo is still open for a few more weeks if you want to go get the freebies and such.
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/04/saturday-hie25.html
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/04/sunday-hie25.html

With the HG Safari tours on hiatus, our focus is on the upcoming Hypergrid International Expo - the conference is 5 and 6 April, with a big opening party on Friday 4. For the full program, check out our website https://sites.google.com/view/hieopensim/schedule
You'll see all our speakers, the art performers also!
You can read about the HIE on our blog.
Spotlight on Neo Cortex's NPC tool https://hieopensim.blogspot.com/2025/03/hie-expo-something...
Morlita and Cherry's exceptional art show will be a thrill! https://hieopensim.blogspot.com/2025/03/cherry-and-morlita...
German speakers can enjoy Tosha Tyran's take on the event https://hieopensim.blogspot.com/2025/02/ein-spaziergang-ub...
You can visit and like the HIE sim here https://opensimworld.com/hop/92553

The HG Safari tour season ended last Wednesday, we will be back in April with more madness. In the meantime, please enjoy the following posts
Game of Thrones roleplay done beautifully on WTG
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/go-westeros.html
visit the 130+ booths at the HIE Expo - get your freebies and info about many grids you may not have heard of before!
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/expo-sure.html
Opensim World's Fair - fun at the Load Test
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/fair-test.html
A guided tour around Tosha Tyran's extraordinary build Timbuktu
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/toshas-timbuktu.html
Lavia Lavine takes us back to Oklahoma in the 1850's to learn more about roleplay
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/going-stag.html
This year's excellent Cornflakes Week party on Neverworld - lest we forget
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/cornflakes-2025-nw-s...
The amazing Dismayland - one of Opensim's true gems!
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/dismayland-undismaye...
Learning how Virtual Learning Village helps people to strengthen their brain power
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/03/safari-boosts-its-br...
The Safari season ends with a party on Wyldwood Bayou
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-bayou-bye-bye.html
Another big success for AMV's annual International Diversity concert
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/03/getting-internationa...
and finally, highlighting Loru Destiny's Film Festival https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/03/destiny-at-movies.ht...

Brrrr lots of goings-on in opensim right now! Need a breather from the asset frenzy? Get yourself a cuppa, here are a few recent posts from the HG Safari blog *caution may contain eye candy*
Yana Dakota's spiritual paradise, with an asian theme
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/yanas-samsara.html
another Japanese build of great beauty
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/fish-love-money.html
important hg news about how your grid can be part of the Parade on Pangea
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/karneval-is-koming.h...
some much needed R&R, Star trek style
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/best-resort.html
Neverworld's fab riders
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/safari-in-clouds.htm...
and finally a positive take on the OSGrid situation
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/02/spring-clean.html

Lots of news and views from around Opensim in the past couple of weeks... like this:
The French-speaking community inaugurated a new garden of memory on Francopholie
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/french-respects.html
Neverworld reorganized their continents
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-var-var-better-thi...
Safari went to see Anachron Young's Mystic paradise
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-mysteries-of-atl...
Safine took us swimming
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/super-scuba.html
@EllenTiratzo organized a message from us all to Verna Avril
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/love-to-verna.html
Alien encounters on OSgrid with Geo perez
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/signs-and-visions-on...
We found out more about Hogwarts and Animesh from Taarna Welles
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/domadun-fun.html
A tour of Paris with Ana, Nadir, and friends
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/anas-paris.html
Khiron Ametza tells her story
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/khirons-voice.html
and finally, some background to tomorrow's big anniversary on Craft
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/crystal-craft.html

The new season of HG Safari is underway and as always the hypergrid is proving to be a rich tapestry of fascinating places! For example:
Bloom Peter's tech-savvy and activity-rich sim Frutti on Winxtropia
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/tutti-i-frutti.html
The awesome Daqtheion Empire on Mobius
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/crazy-like-phos.html
The California biker's paradise on CCI grid
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/safari-does-anarchy....
Lynnestra Parker's fun and fascinating sim on AMV
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2025/01/going-to-goddess.htm...
All this, plus the background to the latest calendar 'Men of Opensim' - thanks to all the talented hotties who agreed to participate
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/12/calendar-guys.html

Wishing everyone a great 2025 !
The final posts on the HG Safari blog for 2024 include
a conversation with Yana Dakota
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-warmth-of-yana.h...
exploring a beautiful medieval german roleplay grid
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/12/candoranien-romance....
Vela-dreams in celebratory mood
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/12/vela-turns-eight.htm...
Novale's amazing Canadian landscape (and yeah also gifts and freebies)
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/12/novelties-on-novale....
News about HG Safari trips beginning on Jan 1
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/12/safari-25.html
and finally, the new calendar "Men of Opensim"
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/12/calendar-guys.html

Last week's Safari tours, plus an in depth interview with Pangea Grid's Marlon Wayne
The thoughtful, profound and unmissable installation by Loru Destiny
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/10/lore-of-loru.html
Exploring Moonrose grid, with the very talented Chrissy Coage
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/10/marvelous-moonrose.h...
Pangea Grid's birthday
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/10/pangea-birthday-octo...
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/10/binks-ballet.html

Halfway through the Safari season, two great venues this week, and more on the HG Safari Blog. Here's the rundown:
What to do if you don't like the bright lights? Exploring your options, other than complaining about it.
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/sights-and-sore-eyes...
Cherry and Nico's massive hit at Star's Gallery
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/picturing-paradox.ht...
Nadir Rae's legendary masterpiece by torchlight
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/10/love-and-lake-on-ign...
The hugely fun and freebie filled world of Safine and Zuzu over on Friends Grid
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/10/so-fine-safine.html
and finally, a first look at this year's OSFest.
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/10/osfest24-begins.html

Almost halfway through this season of Safari, here 's the latest on our trips, plus special posts about Jimmy Olsen and Bloom Peters
The Olsen hideaway:
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-haven-for-jimmy.ht...
What happens when a group visits The Prince of Amor's solar system
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/boldly-going-with-pr...
An international load test
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/hie-times-high-tunes...
Bloom Peters' interactive animesh
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/weekend-at-winx-1.ht...
Bloom Peters' mesh-hack for Firestorm
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/weekend-at-winx-2.ht...

Another busy week in Opensim with so much happening! Here's a roundup of just a fraction of what's been going on:
An unusual trip around a sim n Dorenas World
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/safari-goes-into-lig...
Yana's wonderful Tahiti on AMV
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/safari-maitai.html
Recognizing the end of an era on Dsicovery grid
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-end-of-discovery...
A moving build on Kitely
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/ginos-butterfly.html
Memorable sims on SV3d grid
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/safari-gets-romantic...
and finally the Fashion show on Atlas, which happened today.
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/atlas-la-mode.html

Opensim - there is so much out there to see ! Here are a few recent posts about a few of the interesting and fun people and places you can experience.
The new Safari season continues tomorrow at 12.00
Recent news from the OSWF:
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/fair-dos.html
Find out more about Genie Fegte:
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/on-offworld.html
Safari season starts on a fantasy sim in Pangea
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/safari-fall.html
The wonderful Marpil Grafenwalder shows us around her home
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/tierra-de-marpil.htm...
A new project for bringing the French community closer together
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/09/call-it-communaute.h...

"Drama is like dog crap. The more you stir it, the more it stinks."

Safari starts up again next Wednesday! Usual time, 12 noon SLT. but departing from the new HG Safari grid, not from OSGrid, so please tell your friends about the change.
Recent posts on the HG Safari blog
A conversation with Victor DeAngelo
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/08/victors-great-gatsby...
The new expanded Europa by Jimmy
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/08/jimmys-europa.html
Some insights into Star's upcoming gala event
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/08/dreams-on-10th-dimen...
A bit of background to tech guru Ai Austin
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/08/austins-eye.html
and some MorlitaM news
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/08/m-is-for-music.html
Happy reading!

The HG Safari group tours are on break for August (we begin again on September 4) but in the meantime, here are a few recent posts on the HG Safari blog:
Bink Draconia on Pangea *fabulous*
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/07/four-bits-by-bink.ht...
Digital art by film maker Saskia Boddeke, preserved in opensim
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/07/revisiting-susa.html
A bit of opensim history, revisited - see if you can find yourself in any of these vids
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/07/close-encounters.htm...
There's a RL/opensim crossover event today on Neverworld
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/07/tony-jerry-little-wi...
Dereos is having an art show, details here
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/07/will-you-participate...
Also, thanks again to Satyr for removing The Box and its prolix vapidity out of the immediate line of sight of opensimworld users.