Looking at Shark Rock Pier from the Boardwalk Hotel gives you a slightly different angle from the norm. If you look at photos of the pier it's normally from either side, from on the pier itself or occasionally from the sea side. Not often that you get a bit of a elevated view like this one I got from the hotel.
The Colchester area east of Port Elizabeth was a very busy spot in the mid 1800 and early 1900s, as it had the only pont over the Sundays River on the main road between Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown. The original pont was washed away in 1874 and a second one in 1875. A bridge was commissioned in 1884 and opened on 5th March 1895. It was called the Mackay Bidge, in honour of John Mackay who's efforts resulted in its…
I have to admit, I haven't got a Port Elizabeth photo for you today. It's a combination of things, mostly bad luck coupled with being fairly busy at the moment. My external hard drive crashed a little while ago and with it went all my family and travel photos. It's going to cost me around R8k to have the contents retrieved in a specialist environment. Money I definitely haven't got at the moment. Last week my home laptop's motherboard decided…
Road tripping often allows you to see the most interesting and unusual sights. Something you don't get wizzing overhead to your destination in a plane. The Overberg is famous for it's canola fields covered in yellow flowers in spring, otherwise green fields in spring and and brown ploughed fields ion late summer going into autumn and winter. Or that was until I saw this. Mmmm, very unusual. I don't know why but it reminded me of a couple of pictures of…
The Port Elizabeth harbour was built in 1933 after the completion of the Charl Malan Quay (No.1 Quay, now used as the Container and Car Terminals). It is one of two harbours in Algoa Bay with the Coega Industrial Harbour being the other. The harbour wall can be seen on the right. Going along the wall to the left is the tanker berth where the ships carrying fuel to the harbour docks and to the left of that (where the two…
The revamped Shark Rock Pier seen from underneath. Just thought I'll do something different.
When was the last time you've been in the Gamtoos Valley? Perhaps I should ask, have you ever been for a drive up to the Kouga Dam? If the answer to both of these questions are "never" or "not recently" then there is no time like the present. After all the rain we have had recently the Kouga Dam is currently overflowing and well worth a visit. The Kouga Dam is located about 21 kilometers west of Patensie and was opened in 1969. It…
It was a late afternoon on a gloomy day, our only day, in Knysna and I was taking a walk around Leisure Isle with a couple of friends. The mission was actually one of a Geocaching kind, but two of us had our cameras with us as well and once the cache was found it became a photography trip. With not a lot of sunshine around it meant that there would be no spectacular lagoon sunset so we found ourselves…
Every time I visit Durban and see how over developed their beachfront it is, I think of our own. We truly are very fortunate in Port Elizabeth that our beachfront wasn't developed like the one in Durbs. That we can drive normally along our beachfront and not struggle along narrow roads through tons of traffic. The we don't struggle for parking. That we can see the ocean from most of it without having a lot of buildings on the seas side…
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D-6dSpQRl8&w=500&h=400]The guys over at Chasing the Rainbow has been exploring around Port Elizabeth using the Nelson Mandela Bay Pass. One of the experiences they went to do was to cruise on the Sundays River Ferry and go sand sledding on the dunes at Colchester. Looking for a video to post for today I found this vid they posted on their blog (and YouTube). So here they are, chasing the rainbow in the sand.