It’s not often that when you arrange to meet someone for the first time that you choose to do it in a cemetery but it seemed appropriate to meet Vivian at Calvary. We’d known of her for years and had corresponded a bit through Ancestry.com. We knew she shares an interest in genealogy and that she shares DNA with Steve through two ancestral lines. Together we located the final resting place of her Great Great Grandparents/Steve’s Great Aunt Mary and Uncle Fred. We continued the visit at a local bookstore cafe and are now looking forward to future visits and perhaps planning a family reunion together!
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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