It was a wonderful but incredibly long day. It started well before dawn. It was still dark when we arrived at Tampa Airport. We rode in a shuttle van with the Hamiltons and Eanes so the party started early. At Tampa Airport we saw the sun rise. We haven’t seen it set yet. After three plane rides, a long layover in Seattle, a delay waiting for luggage that never arrived at Fairbanks Airport, and finally a bus ride to Sophie Station Hotel, we are finally ending the day something like 22 hours after the day started.
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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