Ohai! Did you know there are places in SL that hardly anyone knows about? It’s true! Fun little easter eggs that are there for intrepid explorers to find and today I’m going to tell you about one of them.
My Sir is a sailing fan. I had actually never gone sailing before but since I met him we have gone out several times on the Blake Sea. For those of you who are like me and have NO idea what that is, I will explain. The Blake Sea is a section of water, several sims large… like LOTS of sims large actually, where there is some land and some rentals, but a lot of it is protected water space. They do sailing races out there and all kinds of cool stuff. Sim crossing can be a tad harsh but it’s a ton of fun!
*EDIT* Thanks for the correction! This particular adventure took place in the Dire Straits, not The Blake Sea. I’m still learning all of this as it’s totally new to me but tons of fun.
So, on this particular day Sir took me for a sail and said he had a surprise to show me. We’re sailing along cuz he has an actual SAIL boat, a Volvo something or other….. yeah I’m bad with names. lol and suddenly he tells me to turn up my draw distance and look over there… so I do, and in the distance I see this…. THING… come into view. it’s HUGE and we’re still 3 sims away from it, and it KEEPS GETTING BIGGER! O.O Welcome to the Leviathan.
The Leviathan takes up almost a full sim all by itself and was made by the LL Moles. Who are the Moles you ask? They’re not Lindens, but they work for the Lindens. They build stuff. Stuff like this. For those of you who are builders, here’s the part you’re going to appreciate. THIS WAS DONE PRE-MESH. MOST of this is tortured prims with a few sculpts added in for the teeth and such. It was made in 2010, so this gives you an idea of how long it’s been here.
To give you an idea of scale here, that’s me standing by a tooth and Corvi comes in at about 6feet, which is about average for SL these days. So yeah. this thing is ginormous.
There are innertubes to float on in the lagoon in Leviathan’s tummy and hammocks for you to lie in as well. Overall it’s very welcoming and there’s even a dock where you can get a free boat that’s on a timer so you can speed around and have fun.
The lagoon in the middle of the island holds a lot of flotsam and junk, and under the water is the graveyard of all the ships the Leviathan ate when he was still alive.
Seagulls have taken up part of the island and claimed the bones of his tail as their nesting grounds. It’s slightly dangerous for your health to get too close to them.
The Leviathan is just sitting here, in the middle of the Blake Sea (EDIT: I was corrected, this is in the Dire Straits, still learning my geography!), and very few even know he exist. I think he is amazing, and I love that the Lindens and the Moles have done things like this. Apparently there are more easter eggs like this in SL. I want to find more! If you know of any let me know and I’ll totally go check them out and blog them.
If you would like to go visit Leviathan and don’t have a boat, I’ll let ya cheat and give you the slurl: The Leviathan Skeleton
Quirky and Cool Stuffs 
Sorry, the Leviathan and the whole ocean around it is known as “Dire Strait” and part of Nautilus continent proper, not Blake. Don’t fall for all the land speculants trying to sell you overpriced parcels as “Blake Sea” when they truly aren’t. We have seen land for sale as “Blake Sea” that was actually on the Northern coast of Corsica, one continent above Nautilus and hundreds of sims away. You won’t believe how many crooks there are in SL. You know Blake Sea sims by their naming convention “Blake Sea – xxxx”. Blake Sea is in fact just the square of 48 (I guess) sims, while all the sims directly bordering it are privately owned estates.
Ok, with some good will you can count the surrounding estates as part of the Blake, but that’s it then. We other yacht clubs, outside of Blake, are fiercely independent and not part of the elite group of first class residents. We’re proud mainland sailors and rarely entering the restricted space of the Blake. It’s laggy and boring there.
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Thank you for the correction. I’m still learning what all the areas are called. It’s still really cool tho!
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Oh, btw, if you’re out looking for easter eggos, just check the shoreline around our mainland continents. There are often amazing litte islands to be found, on which the moles went crazy. Westcoast of Satori, Bingo Strait, eastern parts of Blake Sea, eastcoast of Nautilus and the corridor in between Nautilus and Corsica, northern coastline and inner lakes of Sansara … and more places are an explorer’s dream.
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ZOMG! Thank you so much! Since I posted this I have since bought myself a boat and have been attempting to learn how to sail. I sense a boating outing in our near future tho!
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I always aim to please. 😉
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