We traveled down to Naples to visit Pat and Tom. Steve is related to Pat two different ways. She is a third cousin through one line and a second cousin once removed through another line. We met their three more generations of the family. Their daughter and her husband, their granddaughter, and their great-grandson. We spent some time talking family history and in the process discovered a fact that leads us to suspect that Tom may be a distant cousin of Karen’s!
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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