After gray skies on Sunday, pouring rain all day Monday, snow flurries all day Tuesday, we are excited to see blue skies and sunshine. We started the day with a fire in the wood stove and blankets on the lap.At noon we still have a little bit of snow in a shady spot on the love seat on the deck but the temperature is up to 40F. Probably still too wet outside to get back to the yard jobs but a good day to dig in the closet to find the wonderful trimmings that will herald the coming Christmas season. Tomorrow we plan to venture out to a nearby tree farm and see if we can find our perfect Christmas tree.
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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