The clouds parted long enough for us to enjoy Champagne Breakfast Sunday, one of our Deck Day traditions, and a great opportunity to celebrate special occasions. Today we are toasting Bill who retired last month and headed out on a cross country road trip from tNew Mexico to Texas to Florida to North Carolina. From here he’ll visit Ohio before heading west again. Later in the day the rains started again but that didn’t dampen the fun. Folks gathered under the canopy to play Catch Phrase or in the living room to cut a rug when not actively involved in smoking the pork under another canopy or engaged otherwise in preparing the feast.
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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