Seattle traffic is not our favorite thing. We decided that when we visited for the first time in 2008. And that time we weren’t towing a trailer in the rain. We did deliberately choose Saturday morning for our trip south and routed ourselves east of the city on I-305. That route worked well for us on a Sunday morning two years ago. However this morning we probably lingered a little longer in Washington Park than we should have. We gave the messy traffic time to develop. The trip from Anacortes to Nisqually should have taken two and a half, not four hours! But we made it. Time to find Riverbend Campground, settle in and get the laundry done before tomorrow’s adventures.
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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