Voting Line scenes
The Voting Line must surely be my favorite art piece along Route 67. I just can't get enough of looking at the figures and every time I'm there it feels like I'm noticing a different feature.
The Voting Line must surely be my favorite art piece along Route 67. I just can't get enough of looking at the figures and every time I'm there it feels like I'm noticing a different feature.
We've had a fair amount of rain over the last couple of months... Ok, so maybe a bit more than a fair amount of rain. So much in fact that my backyard has become a swamp with water oozing up between my toes if I walk there barefoot. Last Thursday night and Friday morning it came down in buckets again with me spending part of the morning standing in that rain on the Donkin Reserve as part of an Amazing…
Normally people would go to a game reserve to see giraffes but did you know there is a group of 20 giraffes on the Port Elizabeth beachfront? What do you call a group or collection of giraffes?Corps of giraffesHerd of giraffesTower of giraffesJourney of giraffesWhile we are at it. I bet you didn't know that there are a couple of American states that has laws involving giraffes.In Atlanta, Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a lamp post or a telephone pole.In…
It was a cold and somewhat wet winters afternoon and were heading back to Port Elizabeth after a very enjoyable pre-cold front weekend in The Crags. Driving along the N2, most people make their comfort and coffee / food stop at Storms River Bridge. I haven't done that for a number of years now Not since discovering the Oudebosch Farmstall about 30 km east of the bridge. We took the Kareedouw / Eersterivier offramp from the N2 and turned right towards the coastline. Oudebosch lies about 400 meters…
A week or so ago I attended the Kouga Baviaans Surf and Safari Marketing Association's AGM in Jeffreys Bay. It was a perfect winters day and I decided to make a stop at Supertubes before heading back to Port Elizabeth.A deserted beach that was packed during the Jbay Open just a few weeks agoEnjoying one of the best right hand point breaks in the worldAloes on the coastline at Lower Point
Most people know South End as the area in Port Elizabeth just above the harbour where the main fire station, Humewood Police Station, South End Cemetery and lots of townhouses is. A lot of younger residence of Port Elizabeth probably don't know the history of the area.South End used to be a very cosmopolitan community. People lived happily together in cultural diversity with blacks, whites, coloureds, Indians, Chinese, Jews, Greeks and many others united in their attitude towards family values, faith and…
Most of the art making up Route 67 is located around the Donkin Reserve and the city centre. There are a couple of installations making up the 67 art pieces of the route that aren't located on the direct walking route though. One of these is the South End glass sculpture on the island in the parking area next to the South End Museum. The sculpture commemorates the families that were forcefully removed from the old South End under the Group Areas Act. The glass…
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUCsUkXOapA&w=500&h=400]The big cats from the Eastern Cape and surrounding areas just don't want to be contained. First a couple of cheetahs suddenly appeared in Addo from who knows where, Then a lion escaped from the Karoo National Park and roamed the surrounding countryside for a couple of weeks before being captured. Well, things happen in threes. Nomad, one of the Addo males, has answered the call from a female lion in neighboring Schotia Safaris Private Game Reserve and decided to…
I sometimes ask myself, "Self, how many people every wonder about the history of an old building when they drive past it?" I snapped a picture of St Philips Church in Richmond Hill yesterday and decided to go and see if I can find any information about the church's history and background. Guess what? I'm going to share what I found with you. St Philip started as a mission church way back in about 1872 with families, mostly Dutch speaking, who had moved to…
The St Philips Anglican Church in St Philips Street, Richmond Hill use to feature quite often on PE Daily Photo after Sue and Max started it as they stay just up the road from it. I don't get to Richmond Hill that often but had to stop at the church to *cough* look for a Geocache today. I just had to take a pic or two. I'll post the other one tomorrow.