The other day I asked the question, "How many of us still take our kids to explore rock pools around the Port Elizabeth coastline?" Well, if you do you will encounter a lot of mussels on the rocks at low tide. When I took the photo I had this grand idea to give you a lesson on our mussels and how many one is allowed to pick. That was until I realized how many types of mussels there are. And…
One of the features as part of the Kings Beach Park development is a beach chair selfie frame which Drama Princess just had to try out while on last weekend's Instawalk in the area.
The municipality (or I think it was the municipality) recently erected new lifeguard huts on the city's main beaches. On last weekend's Instawalk in the Kings Beach area I snapped this pic on a cloudy and gloomy morning showing the lifeguard huts ready and waiting for summer and the influx of holiday makers visiting the city during December and January.
A couple of months ago I spent a night at Ganora Guest Farm outside Nieu Bethesda. What an amazing place! Although I didn't have a lot of time but did get to do a tour of JP's Fossil Museum. Unfortunately I didn't get to go and see the rock drawings on the farm. Before heading into the village for the meeting I was there for I took a walk down to the river just below the homestead. If it wasn't for…
The Hector Pieterson Memorial is one of Soweto's iconic sites and a popular stop on a tour of the township. The Memorial along with the Hector Pieterson Museum is situated in Orlando West and commemorate the role of the country’s students in the struggle against apartheid. The site is just a few blocks from where the 12-year-old Hector Pieterson was shot on 16 June 1976 during the Soweto uprising when high school students from the township took to the streets in a peaceful protest against the mandatory use…
I found this piece of graffiti at the Kings Beach Skate Park last weekend. The first thing that I noticed was that it was done with what looked like pastels and not paint. Interesting. The main thing though is the message and even though this one is aimed at skateboarders, I think its an universal one. DO MORE OF WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY. A motto I have decided I want to implement more in my own life. Life is short and…
Today is the second Geocaching Saturday post and for the second time it features a cache placed by GeorgeC12. George have been posting some great caches lately and really deserves every favourite point he gets awarded. In this cache I went in search of Feathered Friend Lucy. Lucy is a parrot and she clearly didn't have her wings clipped as I found her way up in an massive Wild Fig Tree. Drama Princess spotted it immediately and it was up to me…
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/0j3kZpEFLkE&source=udsEverybody knows that the Sardine Run moves up the east coast of South Africa every year with awesome sightings off the Wild Coast and thousands of sardines coming so close inshore at KwaZulu Natal that people can scoop them up with buckets. Very few know that the sardines gather off the coast of Port Elizabeth before they start their trek up the coast. It is here where Rainer Schimpf takes divers and television crews from all over the world to experience…
I wonder how many people still go and explore rock pools at low tide. We used to spend school holidays with my grandparents in Paradise Beach near Jeffreys Bay and the beach was our playing field. At low tide you would find us in the rock pools searching, exploring and discovering. Kinda makes me feel guilty for not taking the KidZ to the beach more often. The rock pools in the picture is just on the Humewood Beach side of McArthur…
Most people know where Adult World is on Russell Road. Not because they've been there but because there is a big sign outside. Just above it is a billboard that has been taken up by Mambo's Plastic Warehouse. The two together though makes for a very odd combination. What is seen can never been unseen......