I just absolutely love the Addo Elephant National Park just outside Port Elizabeth. When I used to tour guide I got to visit the park at least once a week (at one stage I went there up to 5 or 6 times a week) and never got tired of it. Driving through the park looking for elephants I always got just as excited when we found them as the tourists got. I haven't had much opportunity to go to the…
During December we spent a week at Cannon Rocks on the Sunshine Coast in the Eastern Cape (about 120km east of my home town of Port Elizabeth). We stayed there the previous year as well and I just loved photographing the wreck of a fishing boat rusting away on the beach close to the resort where we stayed. Last year the wreck looked like this (photo above) and some of the photos I took then can be seen here and…
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, through the Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA) is busy with a upgrade of the Donkin Reserve and the historic buildings on it. Part of the project is the restoration and upgrading of the lighthouse and the old lighthouse keeper's building which acts as a tourist information office managed by Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism. Work started on the project last week and is expected to be finished before the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup…
A fishing trawler sailing along the Sunshine Coast between Port Elizabeth and Port Alfred
Happy Valley just off Humewood Beach is a wonderland of note for any child and on of Port Elizabeth's oldest (oldest not as in historic but as in something that has been there like forever) attractions. In summer the valley is lit up with colourful lights while all along the pathway visitors will find all kinds of children story and rhyme characters. Happy Vally is an institution with parents taking their kids to a place where they have gone as…
I found this scene playing off next to the tent when we were camping the other day. The ants were trying to move the dead little grasshopper without much luck. There just wasn't enough of them.
The Prince Alfred's Guard Memorial is situated on top of Port Elizabeth's second oldest water reservoir in St Georges Park and was unveiled in 1907. This memorial forms the central ornamental feature of the Service Reservoir. On the top of the central pedestal is a life-size figure of a sergeant-major of Prince Alfred's Guard, in full dress and standing at the "charge" and immediately below him are four lions, each holding a shield. The memorial is in remembrance to men…
The blue moon (second full moon of the calender month) rising over the ship wreck at Cannon Rocks in the Eastern Cape on New Years Eve. For more fabulous pictures featuring the sky, visit Skywatch..GPS: 33°44'41.59"S, 26°33'39.99"E
Water lilies on one of the fish ponds in Victoria Park in the lower part of Walmer
A couple of lifeguards watching the swimming area at the main beach in Cannon Rocks. When I walked up to the guys with my camera in hand I think they were quite curious about what I wanted. I asked them to just sit and do what they were doing. They did as per my request and never looked over their shoulders, but I did notice them talking and laughing about what I was busy with. Afterwards I was thinking how…