Our last Saturday in St Petersburg we gathered the local members of the family, Mike, Cathy, Matt, Emily, Ed, and “Uncle” Gary for a dinner at Midtown Sundries. It was that evening that all our favorite Midtown servers realized that we will be leaving within days. After dinner we went back to the apartment, aka The Big Empty. It’s interesting entertaining when the floor is just about the only seating available.
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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