This is a bit of an unusual view of Shark Rock Pier. I know it's a view a lot of people have seen before, but if you zoom in with the camera over a distance this angle puts Kings Beach and the city centre right behind the pier.
The Western Cape has it's various winelands where one can take daily tours to taste wines and learn more about how they are made. Port Elizabeth does have it's share of wine lovers, but the closest wines they can taste at source are in Plettenberg Bay so they usually end up having wine tasting events with Western Cape wines. But how about beer? Craft beer in particular. This is probably what Tony Neveling of Gecko Tours here in the Bay was thinking when he came…
Anybody who doesn't know how draft beer gets from wherever to the glass would probably have a totally different interpretation of this picture. Science experiment, drug lab, space alien breeding centre? Nope. Probably (one of) the biggest variety of craft beers on tap at an establishment in Port Elizabeth. This being part of the bar at BeerYard in Richmond Hill.
Anybody seeing the Fish Bird art piece by Dolla Sepata on the Donkin Reserve for the first time would be forgiven if they think it represents a Concorde coming in to land. The Fish Bird is a very abstract piece representing a combination of fish in the bay and birds on land and is returning to the Donkin to take ownership of this transforming site.
The coastal Sunshine Coast town of Kenton-on-Sea is flanked by two tidal river, the Bushmans River and the Kariega River. Normally the area is a quite and peaceful area until the summer holiday arrive. That is when mostly inland holiday makers flock to the area with a lot of them bringing their boats to enjoy the river with. The Bushman's River, on the western side of Kenton, is the 2nd-longest navigable river in South Africa and offers a 22km stretch of…
The schools were closed on Friday and I had to take Drama Princess to work with me for the day. Somewhere during the morning we popped up to the Donkin Reserve to drop of maps and brochurs at the visitor information center there and we went for a quick walk around some of the artwork forming part of Route 67. Obviously the camera went along and Drama Princess decided that a plain straightforward picture of her posing on the mosaic next…
Spring is here and Summer is a coming so we are slowly starting to see beautiful warm days sneaking in between the colder weather. Taking the dogs for a walk on the beachfront on such a day it was great to see many others making use of the weather. Not a lot of people are swimming yet but kids and playing in the water, dogs are being walked (so are loved ones), people are starting to work on their tans,…
Anybody blindfolded and flown around the country before being dropped off at the Jazzy Boozy Cheezy Affaire would have been excused if they guessed their destination to be somewhere in the Cape Winelands after seeing what was around them. They would have been very wrong though. The JBC wasn't taking place in the Cape Wineland. Far from it. It took place just outside Addo at Africanos Country Estate in the Sundays River Valley of the Eastern Cape.The JBC Affaire wasn't…
Taking a walk along Route 67 on the Donkin Reserve with Drama Princess
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZDtHJe30t0&w=500&h=400]I was browsing YouTube looking for a nice Port Elizabeth clip to use for this week's Video Friday and found this video of a visit to Kragga Kamma Game Park uploaded by Niezwykly Swiat - Wonderful World. Unfortunately the rest of the text in the description looks like it could be Russian so I can't really tell you more about the person who uploaded it. Have a look at the video, pack a picnic and head over to Kragga Kamma Game Park…