We rolled into Pinellas County late yesterday afternoon thinking we’d look for a campsite for our little trailer at one of the rv/trailer parks in northeast St Petersburg but then had another thought. We checked the reservations website for Fort DeSoto campground and scored a waterfront site in the tent circle! (Hooray for mobile computing!) It felt like homecoming. Almost certainly we’ve camped at this site before. We set up the tent, got our gear organized, watched a beautiful sunset and spent a couple of salubrious hours sitting out in the evening air enjoying our novels. This morning we had coffee while sitting at the waterline watching the shorebirds and breakfasted under the watchful eye of a squirrel accustomed to being fed by campers. Today we plan to share meals with friends then head back to the camp to prepare our camp for a thunderstorm that’s expected to come through in the wee small hours
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.
We rolled into Pinellas County late yesterday afternoon thinking we’d look for a campsite for our little trailer at one of the rv/trailer parks in northeast St Petersburg but then had another thought. We checked the reservations website for Fort DeSoto campground and scored a waterfront site in the tent circle! (Hooray for mobile computing!) It felt like homecoming. Almost certainly we’ve camped at this site before. We set up the tent, got our gear organized, watched a beautiful sunset and spent a couple of salubrious hours sitting out in the evening air enjoying our novels. This morning we had coffee while sitting at the waterline watching the shorebirds and breakfasted under the watchful eye of a squirrel accustomed to being fed by campers. Today we plan to share meals with friends then head back to the camp to prepare our camp for a thunderstorm that’s expected to come through in the wee small hours
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