There are many reasons why we love our little mountain house on three acres. With no really close neighbors and trees all around the edges of our property we have a little more latitude in how we landscape our yard. We keep the area around the house trimmed but not manicured, by having someone weed whack it about three or four times a year. At least two-thirds of the property is wooded giving us plenty of green surrounding us in the summer. And the views that the we get when the leaves are off is one of the reasons we love being here in the winter. Another little benefit is that we can just toss the Christmas tree over the rail and it will roll down to the edge of the woods. Later on we can drag it deeper into the woods and it can become habitat for wildlife while it decomposes into the rich earth.
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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