Spent the day walking boardwalks through all sorts of geothermal phenomena. Nothing like walking around on top of one of the world’s most enormous volcanoes! Also saw lots of wildlife…elk, bison, an eagle, and more. Made the mistake of arriving at Canyon Village hungry for lunch at the same time as several tour buses. We bought a few groceries and picnicked in the car. It was a overcast and cold day. We did see a tiny bit of snow but then a few minutes later we saw a couple of minutes of sunshine! We cut our touring a little short and came back to our room for a nap and a good dinner accompanied by Moose Drool brown ale.
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.
I notice that you haven’t blogged from yellowstone in two days. Does that mean you’ve left. While you were there does it look like a giant caldera?