If you can tell a person’s troubles by the number of keys he carries then we are nearly trouble free. After the inspection of our very very clean apartment we turned in our keys. We are now down to a car key and a storage unit key each. We left the car in the garage of The Madison and walked around downtown on errands. We laughed over the fact that we were homeless in downtown St Petersburg. However we opted not to panhandle. We ended the day with a temporary home at the Vinoy. Steve’s dad spent his first night in St Petersburg at the Vinoy in 1957 as he was making arrangements to move his family here from Cincinnati. We thought it would be poetic for us to spend our last night here at the historic downtown hotel. We dined at Moon Under Water under the careful eye of one of our favorite servers, David.
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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