This morning we had a last coffee klatch of our Deck Day Week gathering. Our wonderful weeklong house guests have been our A Team and without them we couldn’t have hosted Deck Day with the same grace and style as we did. In the process we’ve continued the process of family becoming friends and friends becoming family. After coffee this morning we eased into to the divvying up of leftovers and the packing up of vehicles. Lots of hugs and plans for future visits both here and there. We were not ready for the fun to end. It’s too quiet here! The deck is lonely.
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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