As the family story goes Steve’s cousin Hilda lived in an orphanage for a few years after her parents’ death then lived “with relatives in Lima, Ohio” before marrying in Toledo where she and Ed spent the rest of their lives. We’re curious as to who these relatives might be so we decided to do a bit of investigation while we were in the area. We had a pleasant time in the public library and in the genealogy department where Angel tried to help us figure it out with whom she might have lived between 1914 and 1916, but to no avail. The mystery persists.
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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