Bill & Dovie came for a visit this weekend. We had a wonderful time catching up on one another’s lives. We shared some of the travel photos from their childhood that we have recently had scanned from slides to digital. That conjured up some fun memories! And Bill brought the three copper pennies that Great Grandpa Blanke had in his pocket when he arrived home in Cincinnati after the Civil War. Two were dated 1848 and the third was minted in 1852. They are significantly larger than modern pennies. It was awesome to hold items that had been held by so many members of four generations of 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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