No, that’s not an adjective we were familiar with until today but we’re staying at Green Lakes State Park near Syracuse, New York and the two lakes here are very deep and are meromictic meaning that the deep and the surface waters do not experience seasonal mixing. On a hike around the lakeshore we got to observe a couple of effects of the high calcium carbonate levels in the water. Besides the beautiful green blue water color there was the curious reef-like constructions formed by calcium carbonate deposited by bacteria over the ages since the lakes were formed by the last ice age. We loved walking through the woods surrounding the lakes and looking across at happy children cavorting in the waters at the beach!
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.
No, that’s not an adjective we were familiar with until today but we’re staying at Green Lakes State Park near Syracuse, New York and the two lakes here are very deep and are meromictic meaning that the deep and the surface waters do not experience seasonal mixing. On a hike around the lakeshore we got to observe a couple of effects of the high calcium carbonate levels in the water. Besides the beautiful green blue water color there was the curious reef-like constructions formed by calcium carbonate deposited by bacteria over the ages since the lakes were formed by the last ice age. We loved walking through the woods surrounding the lakes and looking across at happy children cavorting in the waters at the beach!
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