The azaleas are in glorious bloom. It is wonderful yet bittersweet to wander among these bushes in our front yard. It is because we love the azaleas that we planted them here several years ago. Each year the bloom is more prolific than the last but most likely next year someone else will be enjoying this glorious azalea bloom as their own. For now we are enjoying it to the hilt and trying to chronicle all the blossoming glory on our little piece of property.
Queen Mary 2’s arrival in the Port of Dakar, Senegal was heralded in the local press and greeted with ceremony. Our own excursion took us on a coach journey through the streets of the capital city to visit a Wolof village and the shore of Lake Retba, the salty lake famed for an intense pink color.
Today’s safari adventure transported us out into the Dorob National Park to have up close encounters with little creatures that are well adapted to the extreme heat and lack of water in the Namib Desert.
With a UNESCO World Heritage Site, two national parks, dozens of museums, and hundreds of tours offered in the Cape Town area there is more than plenty to do. For our two day visit we opted to concentrate on African wildlife visiting the Aquila Private Game Reserve and the Boulders Beach Penguin Colony for a wonderful chance to these fabulous animals in their own habitat.
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