One of the advantages of traveling without reservations is the ability to change plans while enroute as we did today. After three hours on the road a bit of weariness set in. (And that’s after a late night last night and a few busy hours this morning preparing the house for our protracted absense.) At that point with the help of a couple of iOs apps, we set our sights for Indian Mountain State Park near Jellico TN. We were set up on site 17 in time to crawl into the T@B for a nap before a bodacious thunderstorm hit. Now we’re preparing a cup of green tea (the first use of our MSR backpacker stove) and to bring up the latest episode of Tiny House Nation while the rain continues to fall outside. An advantage to this afternoon’s change of plans is that we’ll cut at least an hour off our total travel time to tomorrow’s destination of Paynestown SRA where we actually do have reservations!
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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