The last couple of hours we have been poking along the beach highway looking for geocaches. We found some in Waveland, Pass Christian, and Long Beach. All three have been secreted in oak trees! In two instances we parked parallel to the beach and walked to the cache site. One was cleverly hidden inside a hollowed out oak branch! Another one was hidden on the campus of Gulf Park College (now a campus of University of Southern Mississippi) in Long Beach. The treat there was walking past the sculpted tree in the median of the highway! Then as we drove through Biloxi we made a spur of the moment decision to stop for shrimp and oysters at Shaggy’s, a beach restaurant that promises to operate on Island Time!
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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