Our original intention was to leave Cincinnati this morning but we couldn’t resist the invitation to join the family picnic at Steve’s cousin’s house this afternoon. So after a wonderful steak & eggs breakfast (a September 1st tradition for us) with our B&B hosts Maria and Scott, we set up camp at Winton Woods. We’ve camped there many times, and in fact we’ve camped before on the same site. We were successful at finding the laptop power cord that has been lost twice already on this trip (one reason for the delay in publishing our blog). Then spent the afternoon and evening enjoying the company of extended family.
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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