Just after his breakfast of yogurt and strawberry jam, Linus busied himself for a long time with various configurations of his flat bed truck. It’s fun watching his imagination at work. He used a crane to lift shingles onto said truck then delivered the shingles. Eventually it was time for the walk to school where his first order of business after putting his lunch away and washing his hands was to pull out the basket of trains and to get to work imagining a world of trains.
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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