After a morning meeting with our CFA, we joined Sally for lunch at The Columbia Restaurant at The Pier. It will probably be the last time we dine at that location. It holds a lot of memories for us but plans are for The Pier to go the way of all good things and to be replaced by something new. Later in the day we and Susan went out to Fort DeSoto and set up camp. She’d never seen our camping set-up and was a bit impressed. Then we three met Gary for dinner at Trip’s, formerly Dave’s Restaurant, on Ninth Street and Twenty-Fourth Avenue. During dinner we had a hilarious text conversation with Karen’s sister and her husband regarding family history!
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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