Enjoying the Donkin
The Donkin Reserve seen from the top of the lighthouse as the St Dominic Priory kids I was on tour with walk across the park to have their lunches.
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30/08/2014
Pasella walking the Sacramento Trail with Abel Kraamsaal
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/uoYinU8CjRw&source=udsAs you know I like to post a video on a Friday and this week I found a Pasella clip on YouTube I Haven't posted on the blog yet. Can't believe I forgot about this one as I was involved behind the scenes in helping to organize it. The insert featured Port Elizabeth based Afrikaans singer Abel Kraamsaal. Pasella took Abel for a walk on the Sacramento Trail and the two guides that took them tell the viewers more about the shipwreck, Khoisan…
29/08/2014
Commemorating the Settlers
I often wonder how many Port Elizabethans have climbed the Campanile as adults (not counting going up there as kids on a school outing). I for one can put my hand up as I do it at least once or twice a year. Last week I went up with the St Dominic Priory grade 6 classes. The Campanile was completed in 1922 to commemorate 100 years since the landing of the British Settlers in 1820. It was built on the landing…
28/08/2014
Wind turbine at sunrise
I got an email from one of the PE Daily Photo followers, Yolande Gerard-de Vinck, a day or so ago with a photo she took at 06:00 on Saturday 16 August. She just said that it is towards Addo and the first windmill in the area so I'm not sure if its the Coega turbine or possibly one that is already up at the Grassridge wind farm. Never the less its a beautiful shot. If only I got up early…
27/08/2014
Checking out the light
The Donkin Reserve always produce a new photo when I visit. On my last visit I climbed to the top of the lighthouse with a group of kids from St Dominic Priory and snapped this photo through the windows of one of the girls having a closer look at the light.
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26/08/2014
Dirty clean fun at The Color Run
Last year the first ever Color Run in South Africa took place in Port Elizabeth, so it was appropriate for the city to stage the first South African one in 2014 again. I got an invite from Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism to come and participate in the event along with the family and on a slightly cold and wet Sunday morning headed down to the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. I wasn't sure how a powder paint event would go down…
25/08/2014
Pearson Conservatory in St Georges Park
I have always said (and will always say) that St Georges Park has the potential to be Port Elizabeth's own Central Park. Somewhere locals can go to relax and take part in activities. Pity most people don't go there because of the preconception that its a dangerous place. I snapped this picture of the Pearson Conservatory on a visit to the park with the St Dominic Priory grade 6's and gave it a slight HDR touchup to enhance it.
25/08/2014
Color Run in Port Elizabeth
Port Elizabethans came out in their thousands today to take part in the happiest 5k run on the planet. The Color Run came to Port Elizabeth for a second time (the first in 2013 was actually the first in South Africa) and the locals were hell bent to have fun come rain or shine... well mostly rain. BUT and I have to say but, they didn't allow the rain to spoil their day. In actual fact it only helped to make everybody even…
24/08/2014
Priory City Tour 2014
Every year I take the St Dominic Priory grade 6 classes on a tour of Port Elizabeth and have so much fun teaching them a little more about the city's history. Yesterday we headed out in the howling wind but didn't allow the weather gods to put us off. Four hours later we had gone for a walk through St Georges Park, visited Fort Frederick, climbed the 204 steps up (and back down) the Campanile, quietly made our way around the Public Library,…
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23/08/2014
Geocaching at Fort Peddie
A road trip to East London from Port Elizabeth along the N2 via Grahamstown. The historic Fort Peddie in the town of Peddie dating back to the Frontier Wars. A geocache. These three things added up to a great solo adventure a couple of weeks ago. I've been eyeing the cache at Fort Peddy for a while now but a trip to East London for a meeting was the excuse to do it. This fort was built in 1835 on the…
22/08/2014
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