We've started doing the weekly Hobie Beach parkrun as a family, both to get us all active and more fitter as well as for the Discovery Vitality points. Chaos Boy is running a lot faster than what I've ever been able to do while the Damselfly is walking it at this stage as she's not in 100% shape after her last ops yet. Drama Princess isn't a slouch and at 11 is doing the 5 km at about the same…
I wonder how many shopping centres have a kiddies train that do rounds though the centre like the one at Moffet-on-Main. Moffet-on-Main is quite a popular spot for families with small children what with the Funky Frogs kiddies play area and a coffee shop for the moms (and dads) right next door. Whoever added the train had a stroke of genius when they did that as it means that there are always kiddies around wanting to ride on it. So…
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15kOffwlrR4&w=500&h=400]Expedition Africa is the South African leg of the Adventure Racing World Series. A race normally covers a distance of about 500 km during which teams of four (usually three men and a woman) cover the distance by running, cycling, paddling, swimming, climbing and doing rope work. The teams have to plot the easiest way from check point to check point and the top teams barely stop to sleep over the five days it takes them to cover the distance.…
I don't know why but I am noticing the blooming Jacaranda trees around Port Elizabeth a lot more this year than in the past. Then I saw a picture of this specific Jacaranda Tree in Richmond Hill on Facebook earlier in the week and this morning while in the area recognised it. So I just had to stop and take a photo.
Table MountainMy Table MountainJust because I love that flat mountain so muchWould love to still spend some time exploring her on foot one day and not just look up at herOne day
North End Beach back in the days. A stretch of sand all the way to the Swartkops River which could possible have become one of Port Elizabeth's prime beachfront real estate areas if it didn't fall in the hands of Railways and municipality. This pictures dates back to 1902 right after the Grate Gale when 21 ships ran aground along North End Beach.Today North End Beach is no more. The beach and coastline was reclaimed, railway tracks, Settlers Freeway (M4)…
We've never been to the fish shops on the harbour to buy fresh fish but a Saturday or two ago, in search of finding something else to make for dinner than just the usual stuff, we decided to go and have a look. We landed up in Fisherman Fresh (throw a left as you enter the harbour at the Baakens entrance and follow the signs). An amazing selection of fresh and frozen fish and other seafoods and so much cheaper…
How are you going to explore, discover new places and see interesting things if you don't road trip and venture off the beaten track? A little detour past Bethulie in the southern Free State while heading north had me cross the second longest bridge in South Africa, take a walk through the Bethulie Concentration Camp Cemetery and learn who Louw Wepener was. To be honest, I probably would have totally missed the Louw Wepener Monument a few hundred meters off the…
Some of the landmarks around Humewood Beach. The promenant Humewood slipway pillars, Shark Rock Pier in the background, the cement wall in the front, the steps where the old lifeguard tower used to be and the tripod the rope out to the pillars used to hang from in yester year.
Last Sunday Drama Princess and her school choir sang at the Doxa Deo Artuo church in Richmond Hill. This beautiful little park with the old Erica building is right across the road from the church. Imagine having a park like this close to home to walk the dogs, play ball with the kids or just sit under a tree with a book.