It was Rachel’s first visit to Great Smoky Mountain National Park and Greg’s second trip since 1984. There had been so much snow on the park road that it had been closed until about an hour before we arrived. We didn’t venture too far into the park but we did walk back to see Mingus Mill. Afterwards we gloried in some home made blueberry pie. It’s been a glorious visit. We don’t want them to go back to snowy ol’ Boston.
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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