There is little more we could ask for in a campsite in mid-December and for only a five dollar bill per night! The weather suits our clothes. We slept under light blankets last night and we’re wearing shorts this afternoon. Campground amenities include drinking water, trash disposal, vault comfort station, and a campground host. Our neighbors are within hollering distance but not within line of sight and we have good cell signal. There’s shade and sunshine. However our fixed solar panel is pointed north and the sunshine as we approach winter solstice is from the south. Our power usage is greater than our solar gain today. Later today we’ll crank up the generator and bring the battery up to full. Tomorrow we’ll augment the fixed solar panel with our portable one and see if we can collect enough amps to last another 24 hours.
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.
There is little more we could ask for in a campsite in mid-December and for only a five dollar bill per night! The weather suits our clothes. We slept under light blankets last night and we’re wearing shorts this afternoon. Campground amenities include drinking water, trash disposal, vault comfort station, and a campground host. Our neighbors are within hollering distance but not within line of sight and we have good cell signal. There’s shade and sunshine. However our fixed solar panel is pointed north and the sunshine as we approach winter solstice is from the south. Our power usage is greater than our solar gain today. Later today we’ll crank up the generator and bring the battery up to full. Tomorrow we’ll augment the fixed solar panel with our portable one and see if we can collect enough amps to last another 24 hours. 
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