We woke up to another glorious Florida winter day. Temperature perfect. Skies blue. We chose to just hang out in the campground all morning. Brought the arm chairs out into the shade of the trees and read our books. Then at midday we climbed into the car rolled down the windows, opened the sun roof, and headed out looking for adventure. We drove north to Titusville then east to Canaveral National Seashore. We could see the Cape Kennedy Vehicle Assembly Building in the distance and lots of birds in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge but we headed to the beach. We spent a fabulous hour not only enjoying the surf, the sand, and especially the sunshine, but remembering when nearby New Smyrna Beach was our go-to beach way back when and thinking about a time before development when all of Florida’s beaches were pristine like this.
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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