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Enjoying the beach before winter

I took a walk along the beachfront during lunch time one day last week.  Autumn is my favorite time of the year.  The edge is off the summer heat and even though the evenings are starting to get slightly colder, winter isn't quite here yet.  The best part for me about this time of the year is the fact that we have very little wind.  Something always welcome here in the Bay.  While heading back towards Hobie Beach I spotted…

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27/04/2015
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River view from the dunes

This last of the photos I took on an outing with the Sundays River Valley a little while ago.  This is the view down to the river from the crest of the first dune.  Take note, the first dune and not the highest one yet.  Only about a quarter of the way there.

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26/04/2015
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A St Francis Bay canal cruise

When you think of St Francis Bay in the Eastern Cape, the first thing that comes to mind are the beautiful canal system with its upmarket black and white homes lining the waterways.  You can drive through the area to admire its beauty but the best way to really take it in is on a canal cruise.Our recent weekend in St Francis saw us join Brian Cunningham of Brisan on the Canals and a bunch of ladies on their last leg of the…

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22/04/2015
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I checked a Boomslang

Spending the weekend in St Francis a couple of weeks ago I was looking out a window after breakfast when I saw something drop from the tree down onto the paving.  I quickly stepped right up to the window for a closer look and spotted a boomslang slither along the wall.  I quickly grabbed my camera and ran outside just in tome to see him disappear into the shrubs in the flower bed.  I got the long lens onto the…

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21/04/2015
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I am an (ashamed) African…

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lmKFTadTk8&w=500&h=400]With all the sad things going on in this beautiful country of ours I posted the following on Facebook yesterday and decided to repost it on the PEDP blog today.  I know its not Port Elizabeth being featured specifically, but it has all the relevance in the world to all of us.There has been many memorable speeches in history. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream", Winston Churchill's "We shall fight on the beaches", Emmeline Pankhurst's "Freedom or Death" and…

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21/04/2015
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Last Beetle off the Uitenhage line

The last South African-made Volkswagen Beetle came off the production line on 18 January 1979 and went straight into the Volkswagen museum which later became the VW AutoPavilion.  The metallic bronze Beetle was the last of 288 353 built at Uitenhage plant 1951.  The car only had 200km on the clock when a vehicle carrier overturned on the way back from a show in Cape Town in 2006, destroying nine of the AutoPavilion's most important historic cars, including this one.  It was decided though to…

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20/04/2015