Steve gathered with classmates for the St Petersburg High School Class of 1967 reunion. Several members of the class gathered for a tour of the school in the morning. Steve found the seat that had been his assigned seat for school assemblies his senior year. The group couldn’t resist sitting in student seats the classroom now presided over by a classmate. Karen’s delight came at the dance in the evening when she found a friend from Girl Scouts who had traveled from Michigan for the event.
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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