Tonight is our tenth night of driveway camping in Bell@ at our mountain house. This has given us the chance to bring home some items that we’d used in Sc@rlett that we do not currently need as we continue to get settled into Bell@. And we had just a few things to do at the house to get it ready for the summer. Then there was the fun of registering the camper with the state along with the privilege of paying the associated highway use tax. But the best of all was hosting Pat & Montiel for a weekend visit. Despite the limitations of a fuel scarcity due to the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, they delighted in walks in the nearby woods and identifying wildflowers. That’s not to mention naps in the hammock and collaborating on meal preparations.
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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