This morning we circled back around to Peggy and Duane’s for another visit, to thank them for their wonderful hospitality yesterday, they hosted Mother and Dad’s reception. We also wanted to collaborate on a family history project. We have the 8mm films that Karen and Peggy’s aunt and uncle made 1962-1971. They borrowed a projector to show the movies but we were missing a take up reel. Instead we just enjoyed a visit with cousins and a discussion of possibilities for retrieving the memories locked up on these 7″ reels!
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.
I might have a take up reel in all of the photo stuff – I will keep a look…out