In accordance with longstanding German tradition we eat Pork and Sauerkraut on New Year’s Day in the hope that the upcoming year will bring goodness. The two of us are quite happy to see 2017 behind us. It’s not that we didn’t experience goodness in the year just past but that it was peppered with loss in our circle of family and friends. That’s what led to our lack of blog posts in recent months. We are currently ensconced in our mountain house working hard on a family history project and a bit of textile arts. It good to be indoors since all the horizontal surfaces outside are encased in ice and temperatures are expected to dip into single digits tonight. We may yet post about some of the adventures we had in the last months of 2017.
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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