Trains all day, trains all night. A couple times an hour trains rumble by. Trains going north, trains going south. Trouble is, we are just a little bit south of a railroad crossing that requires the engineer to sound his whistle. Day and night. We’re learning that there is variation in the sound quality of train whistles and the shrillest we’ve heard was at about three o’clock in the morning!
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.
Sounds like “My Cousin Vinny”
Oh, that it was only one 5AM freight train!