[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-yV_gfsZ3o&w=500&h=400]I'm not a surfer. I've never even had the opportunity to try. I really enjoy body surfing though but perhaps one day I'll try doing it on a board. It doesn't mean I don't enjoy watching surfers. Discovered this video of surfing at Pipe by Grant Beck.
The Mzamba Fossils and Petrified Forest on the northern Wild Coast has been on my "To Do" list for a long time now. I just never had chance to visit that part of the Wild Coast yet. That was until a road trip to Durban had me spending a night at the Wild Coast Sun on the border between the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu Natal. The first thing I did after checking in was to enquire about going to see the fossils and…
Drama Princess is sports mad and very competitive. In the winter she plays netball and tennis and in summer she does athletics and plays cricket... Yes, you read correctly. My daughter plays cricket. She is one of three girls in the Newton Park Primary u/11 team and on Tuesday they played their first game of the season against St Dominic Priory. I love seeing the reaction of the boys in the other teams when our team arrives. Not one but three…
Shark Rock Pier was reopened yesterday after extensive renovations. I decided to take a quick walk down at lunch time to go and have a look. The pier looks great after having all the steel and wood fixed up or replaced and it is ready for the many visitors coming to the city this coming season.
The beacon out at Cape Recife is one of two beacons that was used for shipping purposes before the invention of modern navigation technology. The second beacon is the one on Marine Drive where Admiralty Road and Marine Drive comes together. Ships sailing along the coast from the west had to line up the two beacons before they could turn into Algoa Bay. This ensured that they were well clear of Thunderbolt Reef at the point as well as the…
What are the icons of the Garden Route? There are a few. The adventure activities in the Tsitsikamma, Storms River Mouth, the view over the Beacon Isle Hotel with Robberg in the distance, the Knysna forest, the lakes around Sedgefield and Wilderness, Kaaimans Bridge outside Wilderness (especially when the Choo Tjoe still ran), Outeniqua Pass in George and the Dias Museum in Mossel Bay. I left one out on purpose. Probably (one of) the biggest icon on the Garden Route must be the…
The residents of the penguin pool at SAMREC having their morning sun worship. Notice how it's not just penguins residing in the penguin pool. There's also a gannet on the right and a cormorant in the back.
The Cape Recife Nature Reserve has various trail options through the area with the 9 kilometer Roseate Tern Trail the most prominent. The trail includes a walk along the coast line and through the vegetated dune field, visiting a bird hide, the Cape Recife Lighthouse and the old Second World War lookout and barracks along the way. The trail also gives you the opportunity to see a wide variety of fauna and flora as well as to explore the rock pools along the…
Flat Rocks is the area between Pollok Beach and Cape REcife where the rocks stretch out to see at low tide. The rocks are very accessible and very popular with fishermen. The younger crowd in PE wouldn't know that the spot where the Flat Rocks parking area is now (across from the Humewood Golf Course entrance) used to be where the Palm Beach (Flat Rocks) Roadhouse was located.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDzxivW5WnQ&w=500&h=400]The African Penguin used to be called the Jackass Penguin. A strange name for a penguin. But how did it get that name? It is because the African Penguin's call sounds like a braying donkey. Right, so now we have established that they sound like a donkey, but why were they called Jackass? Donkey's are also called Asses (the scientific name is Equus africanus Asinus) while a male donkey is called a Jack. Hence Jackass. Check out this video by…