These are friendships forged back in 1970 at St Petersburg Junior College and cemented at University of South Florida. With George and Delores making their home now in Vancouver, Washington our opportunities to visit are infrequent and oh so precious. Today they made the trip north to Battle Ground State Park to join us for a visit in the T@B and then to find a geocache and to hike the Battle Ground Lake Loop Trail. It’s rated easy but the four of us thought it made our FitBits happy enough. We rewarded ourselves with some tasty sandwiches and salads as well as libations and Milky Way Chocolate Cake at Northwoods Public House in Battle Ground, Washington before returning to the T@B for more conversation. None of us wanted today to end. It was a fabulous day with precious friends.
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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