A Great Day for Swing Dance on the Suncoast! The Jive Aces return and are joined by Swing Dance fans from all over the Florida Gulf Coast including the reigning matriarch of Swing, Norma Miller. It was an incredible evening of excellent music with an incredible swing band. Some intrepid dancers including CJ, Annie, and Ed stayed extra late and joined the boys in the band for milk shakes at Steak and Shake.
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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