After a delightful chat with our neighbors across the way, we broke camp and headed out of Everglades National Park and south on US-1. We’re in new territory. We lived in Florida for fifty years and never visited the Everglades NP or the upper Keys. It’s a pleasant and short drive from Homestead to Key Largo. We just sort of poked around a little bit getting ideas for ways to visit in the future but felt a bit hampered with the trailer behind. We did get a fabulous Seafood Burritos lunch at Snappers in Key Largo. The local brew was good too. Then we headed north on US-1 into Miami then over to Miami Beach and up A1A. We must be crazy. It was a gorgeous day and with the windows and the sunroof open we enjoyed the sun-drenched glory of Miami but were glad too to escape the frenzy. Ended up camping on a tiny overflow lot about 15 feet from US-1 and three feet from the restrooms in the smallest KOA in the country, in downtown Ft Pierce. Grateful for a place to park the camper but not anxious to stay long.
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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