The party in the days before the party involves guests helping with the prep work. Today we began with Breakfast Pizza and a review of the To Do List. Then a trip to town to glory in Farmers Market, acquire local craft beer, locally baked soft pretzels, fresh salmon, turkey breast, and more. Now we are ally busily making veggie burgers, sausage patties, turkey burgers,etc. and smoking brisket and turkey. This evening more folks arrive and the party cranks up a notch.
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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