After spending a bit of time just enjoying our campsite, we wandered out to the Old Fort area. We revisited the site of Dave’s 1995 Eagle Scout Project, the Mine Storage building that was part of the fort just after the turn of the 20th Century. The foundation markers are in excellent shape. The area needs some weeding and there are no markers or signs to indicate it’s significance but it certainly evokes some good memories for us. We spent a little time walking in the sunshine along the shore and poking through the small but excellent museum. Then we headed into St Petersburg. It’s interesting to drive roads and notice what has changed and what is the same. We’ve been gone now for more than four years but that’s after a residence of fifty years. There’s a lot of memories here. We lunched on shrimp scampi and a grouper sandwich at Fourth Street Shrimp Store which was one of our favorite haunts. We’ve had many a fun extended family meal here!
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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