Most of the time I post pictures of historic buildings or beaches so I decided to post of pic of a Black Legged Golden Orb Web Spider today. The reason for the name is the gold coloured thread they spin their webs with. Taken with a bit of back lighting you can actually see the golden thread in this pic. The picture was taken to the west of Port Elizabeth in the Maitland area.
Daar is 'n gesegde wat sê: "Gaan groot of gaan huis toe". Miskien het hierdie heuningby dit gedink op haar daaglikse nektar ronte. Hoekom nou in klein blommetjies gaan rondkrap as daar 'n perfekte goeie Koningsprotea is om in te gaan nektar versamel.
Completed in 1825, No 7 Castle Hill is one of the oldest surviving Settler cottages in Port Elizabeth. It was opened as a historical museum in 1965 and is furnished to show a picture of domestic life as enjoyed by an English middle class family in mid-19th Century Port Elizabeth. Its the kind of museum that both young and old enjoy with young ones exploring and discovering things they may have never known and the older crowd seeing thing that…
One of the wine estates in the Western Cape I've always wanted to visit but never had the opportunity before was Vergelegen in Somerset West. Earlier in the year I was in the area and pinched off an hour of my time to pop in for a look a this historic estate established by Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel in 1700. I'll do another post about the estate in general, but wanted to show off these two pictures of the old Cape Dutch…
I often post pictures taken around the Donkin Reserve but I realised that I haven't taken one looking slightly up the hill with both the lighthouse and the pyramid in it for a while. The Donkin Reserve is truly one of the most iconic sites (and sights) in Port Elizabeth and has recently been names one of Nelson Mandela Bay's Top 10 tourism icons. The pyramid was built as a monument to Lady Elizabeth Donkin (after whom the city was…
While browsing around the stalls at the Patensie Citrus Festival on Saturday I heard the announcer say something about tractor trips to one of the citrus farms and I immediately went to enquire. Five minutes later the family was sitting in a trailer behind farmer Danie Malan's tractor in anticipation for the tour to his farm to start.Along the way Danie stopped to tell us about the young citrus trees that we saw and how the sun can easily burn their…
Ek kan dit nie genoeg sê nie en julle sal dit nog seker baie hoor, maar mense is geneig om altyd vir die groot goed te soek en dan die klein dingetjies te mis. Klein dingetjies soos 'n eenvoudige slakdop op 'n blaar.
Port Elizabeth has two of South Africa's premier export citrus growing areas both within a hour's drive from the city. The Sundays River Valley to the north around the towns of Addo and Kirkwood and the Gamtoos Valley to the west. Over the weekend we visited the Citrus Festival in the town of Patensie in the Gamtoos Valley and all along the road one can see the citrus, specially oranges, hanging on the trees.
There is just something special to small town festivals which you don't get in the cities and the Patensie Citrus Festival has that something special. This past weekend the third annual Citrus Festival took place in the Gamtoos Vally west of Port Elizabeth. The Gamtoos Valley is very much a farming area and produce both fruit and vegetables with potatoes and oranges being two of the major produce from the valley. In actual fact the valley is often referred to…
Die monument wat seker die naaste aan die hart van meeste Afrikaners in Suid-Afrika is is die Voortrekker Monument net buite Pretoria. Die veertig meter hoë monument is in 1949 voltooi en is gebou ter ere van die Voortrekkers wat die Kaapkolonie vanaf 1838 verlaat het en noord na die Vrystaat, die ou Transvaal (vandag Gauteng) en Natal (KwaZulu Natal) met al hulle besittings op ossewaens getrek het.