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Port Elizabeth Lawn Tennis Club

The Port Elizabeth Lawn Tennis Club in St Georges Park was founded on 1 September 1879, making it the oldest active tennis club in South Africa.  The club hosted the first South African Lawn Tennis Championship in 1891 and today the club is still situated on its original site.Check out the St Georges Park website for more info on the club's history. 

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06/01/2015
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Addo Palace Ndebele Private Reserve pictorial

Just before peak season hit us I was on a social media workshop road trip in the Karoo and Addo areas.  The night before the workshop in Addo I got to stay at Addo Palace in the Ndebele Private Reserve bordering the Addo Elephant National Park.  It's always nice to stay and experience somewhere new and this was no different. Ndebele Private Resevre is a 2500 acre game farm in the foothills of the Zuurberg Mountains and about 30 minutes…

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05/01/2015
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The sad remains of Boet Erasmus Stadium

I remember the good old days of supporting the then EP Mighty Elephants at the Boet Erasmus stadium as a kid and later the Not so Mighty Elephants as a young adult.  I remember sitting on the cement steps of the open pavilion and buying peanuts and those little orange dried spaghetti snacks.  I have good memories of the Boet even if the EP team wasn't doing very well and there were only a couple of hundred people rocking up to watch…

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05/01/2015
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The Old Erica school building

I was in Richmond Hill for an event a few weeks ago and decided to swing past the old Erica Building for a quick pic.  The Erica School for Girls was started in 1884 by Miss Mary Anne van Wyk, who initially gave lessons in the old Erica Hall.  After the Anglo Boer War it was decided to build a new school building.  The building, designed by architect W White-Cooper and built by HJ Beckett, was opened on 4 November 1903 by…

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04/01/2015
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Crawling after caches

 I like going out Geocaching on my own as much as I like to do it with the family.  Both have their advantages.  On my own I have "me" time but I really like to share the experience with the family as well.  One of the advantages of having the KidZ with on a Geocaching adventure though is that I can send them crawling in under bushes to find the cache containers.  Like Chaos Boy is doing here on the…

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03/01/2015
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Kareedouw Dutch Reformed Church

Kareedouw is the first town you encounter when you travel into the Langkloof on Route 62 from the Port Elizabeth side.  The name is thought to come from the KhoiSan word !karegadaob which means "A road past many Karee Trees".Kareedouw was established in 1905 as a Dutch Reformed Church congregation and I am assuming that is also the year that the church was built.  If not then in the few years just after.  I say assuming because I just can't seem to…

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02/01/2015
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A helicopter flip over Port Elizabeth with TimGloAdventures

https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/Tv0KmplKW90&source=udsTimGloAdventures is a YouTube channel of a couple that travels the world.  I picked up this video they posted after a visit to Port Elizabeth featuring the beachfront and Boardwalk along with some great aerial footage they took while on a helicopter flip over the city.

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02/01/2015
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Goodbye 2014 – watch out 2015, here I come

Is it just me or did 2014 fly past at the speed of light. A year ago I had no idea what this year had in store for me and now, 12 months later I look back at a year of many highs but it also a couple of real lows, specially at the end.  There is always more one would like to have been able to do, but 2014 has laid the foundation for 2015 to be an even more…

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01/01/2015