Woke up to rain, lots of rain. Did some temporary measures for rainwater diversion using aluminum foil to keep water away from the house. We’ll do more permanent measures someday soon. Meanwhile we were amazed at how quickly our little streams become swollen and fast flowing. Besides wandering around in the pouring rain, we spent the day unpacking and trying to find homes for our stuff. We found the rest of the floor of the study. Now it’s a room, not a storage unit!
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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