It was a beautiful spring day. Since our last trip to our North Carolina mountain house, our view of the mountains has slipped behind the beautiful leaves of spring. We got the truck unloaded, stacked furniture and boxes like a giant Tetris game in the downstairs bedroom then took time out for a lunch with Mary Kay at Nick and Nate’s in downtown Sylva. With regret we then headed for home down US 441 thinking about the fact that soon this cozy house will be home.
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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