We broke camp on Pine Island and headed for Ft Myers. We stopped at a McDonald’s long enough to use their Wi-Fi to replenish our eBook library then went to Mass at Blessed Pope John XXIII Church. Wow! It may be the biggest church we’ve been in. After that we stopped briefly at a RV Show and found ourselves telling people about the teardrop and T@B campers. Honest, we don’t work for Little Guy International, we just like their campers! Then we headed south on I-75 and west through the ‘glades on Alligator Alley into Everglades National Park. We set up camp at Long Pine Key Campground and then did the ranger led night walk on the Ahinga Trail. At one point we saw at least twenty alligator eyes in the beam of our flashlight. One ‘gator who was at least nine feet long and according to the ranger at least twenty years old swam right up to us and then under us on the boardwalk. Incredible experience!
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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