It’s starting to come together. The carpet was installed today over the 1950’s linoleum that the Kiernans installed when they first finished out the attic. The blue industrial strength carpeting and the blue walls and ceilings of the Hatker era are now all gone. The ceilings are white and the walls beige. All the door casings and baseboards are of a 1920’s style and the new carpet is a soft beige. Everything’s neutral. Tomorrow new air-conditioning vents will be installed upstairs.
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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