With Jane we continued our northern Vermont explorations on twisting roads up to the famed Smuggler’s Notch that we first learned about on Smithsonian’s Aerial America. We loved doing a bit climbing around on the rocks and imagining smugglers in days of old hiding booty from Canada in these caves. The interpretative sign mentioned smuggling during the War of 1812 but we fully expect that Canadian spirits made their way through here during Prohibition. Jane had no problem negotiating the tight hairpin turns but we could see how big rigs and oversized campers that ignore the warning signs can get trapped! As we headed south we paused in Jericho, hometown of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley, one of the first persons to photograph snowflakes beginning in 1885. The museum in the Chittenden Mill was closed for the day but that didn’t prevent us from exploring Old Mill Park on the Brownie River!
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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