https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/geLUD9560hA&source=udsA couple of weeks ago the very successful Baywest Port Elizabeth Airshow took place at the PE Airport. I came across this rad video on the Algoa FM channel featuring some GoPro action from inside the cockpit of one of the planes taking part in the airshow.
This year our December summer holiday was supposed to be a mountain vacation and we were due to leave for four days in Matatiele on Tuesday before heading into the Southern Drakensberg for another 10 days there after. We had a very unexpected and sudden hiccup crop up this week and the Damselfly has to head into hospital for surgery. It means that we will be spending our vacation at home while she recuperates and I'm sure the beach will see the KidZ…
Johannesburg really surprised me while on the City Sightseeing Tour of the city. The problem is that I wanted more and got myself a ticket to do the Soweto Tour Extension the next morning. I was up bright and early and made my way down to Gold Reef City to hop on the first vehicle of the day. The guide for the morning was the very delightful Brenda and I was joined by a couple of Brits, a German and two…
Drama Princess doing the "Instagram pose" on the beachfront during the Instawalk a couple of weeks ago. I really like the reflection in the pond along the Kings Beach promenade and she makes the perfect subject. Not that she needs any excuse to pose for a photograph.
A couple of weeks ago I was in Richmond Hill one Saturday afternoon for a function. I had a couple of minutes before things started and took a drive over to the old Erica Building. This is the view across Albany Road towards North End and Algoa Bay. The Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium is just out of view on the left and you can see the Red Tide that was hanging around for a week or so along the coast…
A couple of weeks ago I spent a couple of days touring around the Eastern Cape with a group of journalists and one of our stops was in the Gamtoos Valley town of Patensie. After a visit at the Malan Cucumber Farm we were taken up to their new cucumber tunnels on a koppie outside town and I snapped these pictures of the view. The Gamtoos Valley truly is a very scenic and undiscovered area with most visitors just heading…
We all know what a windpomp looks like. Don't know what a windpomp is? NO! Really? Hahahaha... Ok, so perhaps you've heard of a windpump or windmill? To most of us its just a windpomp, doesn't matter if you say it in English or Afrikaans. Or perhaps even Xhosa. I should ask one of my Xhosa friends what they call it. Anyhow, we all know what a windpomp looks like. One of the icons of the Karoo. An object standing in…
Over the weekend I spent some time on the Grysbok Trail in the NMMU Private Nature Reserve doing the series of Geocaches that's been placed there recently. I wonder how many people actually know of the trail. The NMMU campus was declared a Private Nature Reserve in 1983 and covers 830 ha. The reserve is made up mainly of St Francis Dune Thicket vegetation which is characterised by clumps of thicket within Dune Fynbos. This fynbos vegetation is highly threatened because of agricultural clearing and…
We all know what a Coral Tree looks like. Perhaps not off the top of your head when you hear the name, but you'll definitively know what I'm talking about if I call it a Lucky Bean Tree. Coral Trees are very distinctive in that they loose their leaves in autumn and have brilliant orange flowers before the leaves come back in spring. Something you won't know though is that there are geocaches hidden in at least three Coral Trees around town…
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/XTQyXq-f_Is&source=udsToday is the 1 year anniversary of the death of our beloved Nelson Mandela. As Port Elizabeth forms part of the Nelson Mandela Bay metro I decided to make today's Friday Video a tribute to Madiba. I picked up this one of Johnny Clegg doing Asimbonanga along with a group of kids specially for today.