A week or two three ago I got to spend an evening on the historic Glen Avon Farm at the foot of the Bosberg Mountains outside Somerset East. A stay at Glen Avon consist of true farm hospitality like you can only get in the Karoo and the B&B's surroundings is just what you need to get away from the city and take in farm life. The highlight of my stay though, which was way too short, was a visit to the historic Glen…
It is the first of September and thus Spring Day. As is the case more often than not, Spring hasn't quite sprung and was welcomed with a shower... or two, three... Let's just say it's a bit wet out there. But rain means PE is getting a proper wash and is looking clean and green. Don't worry though, it's downhill towards proper Spring and then Summer from here. Happy Spring Day.
Where ever there is a dam, lake or other piece of water you are sure to find a family of Egyptian Geese. Last weekend during our CITO clean up at Lovemore Lake in Mount Pleasant the resident Egyptian Geese couple came to show us their babies, swimming past quite close.With 9 chicks the lake must be a great place to raise so many babies
Anton Momberg's Untitled Route 67 art piece have become a landmark on the Donkin Reserve
In the Geocaching world the word CITO stands for Cache In, Trash Out. A CITO is a Geocaching event where cachers get together to clean up an identified spot at or near a Geocache location. Last Saturday the PE cachers got together to clean up the area around Lovemore Lake in Mount Pleasant. This is such a beautiful spot and it's hard to believe that people would mess up such a place. Luckily it wasn't too dirty but still, it makes…
There is nothing like a beautiful sunset to end off a perfect day. Sunset over the distant mountains during our recent weekend in The Crags near Plettenberg Bay
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOCIQPDZt8&w=500&h=400]I am currently at the Getaway Show in Johannesburg working off the Kouga Baviaans Surf and Safari stand. The stand across from us belongs to the Sarah Baartman District Municipality (formerly the Cacadu District Municipality) promoting they "7 Wonders of our World". The Sarah Baartman DM is located on the western side of the Eastern Cape and surrounds the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality which includes Port Elizabeth. The 7 Wonders they are promoting are the 7 areas that make up…
At the one end of the Kings Beach Park's lake is an elevated area from where water cascades down into the lake. This elevated area have been here as long as I remember. Long before the redevelopment took place. When I was small there was a kiddies waterslide and small pool where we often went to swim. I remember the day so well when we were big enough to leave the kiddies slide behind and go to McArthur Pool's slides for the…
The Voting Line must surely be my favorite art piece along Route 67. I just can't get enough of looking at the figures and every time I'm there it feels like I'm noticing a different feature.
We've had a fair amount of rain over the last couple of months... Ok, so maybe a bit more than a fair amount of rain. So much in fact that my backyard has become a swamp with water oozing up between my toes if I walk there barefoot. Last Thursday night and Friday morning it came down in buckets again with me spending part of the morning standing in that rain on the Donkin Reserve as part of an Amazing…