Started the day by breaking camp at Fort DeSoto Park Campground Site 38. Took a couple of moments to watch shorebirds foraging for their breakfast. Then met Kay and headed to Paradise Grille on Pass-a-Grille Beach. We fell in love with this place when it was Seaside Restaurant. There’s been a change of ownership. For some reason there are fewer fellow diners here today but the view is still phenomenal and the company delightful. After breakfast the two of us headed for points south checking out a few favorite places along the way such as Ted Peter’s Smoked Fish – an amazing eatery – St. Joseph’s School, Highland Park Apartments. Because of significant winds, we opted to go east over the Gandy Bridge and south on US-41. That gave us a chance to go by Fisher Buggies but didn’t manage to connect with our friend Ken. We ended up west of Fort Myers on Pine Island just a little north of St James City in a KOA that one resident describes as “red Neck Riviera”.
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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