Senegal

Last week we arrived at last in the beautiful Senegal. We drove to Zebrabar camping near St Louis where Beni fell in love for the first time with a visiting hound. The young lad is growing up!
Senegal is bursting with life, especially after the first rains. After driving through Western Sahara and Mauritania which I must say, in the middle of summer is quite devoid of life..... we are now being dive bombed by cicadas and hopping over enormous crabs. Everywhere there are multi-coloured birds and lizards and yesterday Beni met some monkeys which utterly confused him.
A few days ago I returned to the motherland and left Carruthers and Beni fending for themselves on an idyllic area of land not far from St Louis. I shall return in a few weeks and am hoping neither of them have gone too native.

Meanwhile, for your entertainment, watch this video of our journey through Western Sahara on the Paris Dakar route. (Slightly bigger screen if you click on the link... and turn up the sound!). Delightful!
 http://www.youtube.com/tarawatney