This has been our second stay at Newhalem Campground in North Cascades National Park in Washington State. This time we stayed three nights in Site A6 and we still didn’t have enough time to explore the area. Next time perhaps we’ll stay in one of the other campgrounds. There’s a cute little campground adjacent to the company town of Diablo, right on the edge of the lake, and Colonial Creek is lovely, especially the waterfront sites. And there’s lots more possibilities we haven’t yet explored. Perhaps something nearer Washington Pass would give us a nice chance to do the hike to Cutthroat Lake. This “American Alps” park is still topping out our list of best places we have visited. We want to come back.
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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