Gamtoos Series 3 – Dusk in the Gamtoos Valley
Dusk in the Gamtoos Valley with the Cockscomb Mountains in the background photographed from the stoep at Nikalandershoek Guest Cottage just outside Patensie. PURE BLISS
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07/05/2014
Gamtoos Series 2 – water canals
This is post #2 in the Gamtoos series featuring the Gamtoos River Valley west of Port Elizabeth. The valley is referred to as the food basket of the Eastern Cape due to the amount of fruit and vegetables being grown here. These farms all get their water from the Kouga Dam. Water is taken from the Kouga Dam to the Loerie Dam (on its way to consumers in Port Elizabeth) via a main canal while irrigation water for the farms in…
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06/05/2014
Gamtoos Series 1 – Kouga Dam
I'm going through a very busy period at work having just come back from World Travel Market Africa in Cape Town and off to Durban for Indaba in a couple of days. Because of it I'm running low on photos and rather than skipping days I decided to keep the daily photo concept going and recycle some pictures from The Firefly Photo Files over to PE Daily Photo. So lets go on a little PE Daily Photo holiday and discover the nearby Gamtoos…
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05/05/2014
Outeniqua Yellowwood Tree at Natures Valley
I used to travel down the Garden Route quite often while I was still tour guiding but these days don't often get a chance to go further than the Tsitsikamma. Driving down to Natures Valley on our recent Easter weekend Sho't Left in the area I had to stop at one of the view points on the way down on the Grootrivier Pass. Its not a view point as much as it's a tree point. The view is of a little…
05/05/2014
A dairy farm experience in the Crags
A holiday experience can be made up of anything and for our Easter long weekend Sho't Left to the Crags and Natures Valley we were expecting it to be made up of camping, swimming in the Natures valley lagoon, walks and Geocaching. Little did we expect a farm experience that got the KidZ a lot more excited than any of the mentioned activities. The campsite was situated across the road from the Natures Way Farmstall which on its turn is located on a…
04/05/2014
Preparing smileys
Smileys is a delicacy in the townships and visiting Njoli Square in Zwide you get to see vendors prepare this sheep head meal for the lunch time and after work rush coming past.
04/05/2014
Late afternoon at Van Stadens lagoon
The sun slowly heading down after a perfect day at Van Stadens lagoon
03/05/2014
Grysbok Reserve road
Very few people know that the South Campus of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is situated on a nature reserve. The Grysbos Nature Reserve can be accessed (with permission) from the campus along this road. I went to a meeting at the campus and snapped the pic over the gate on my way past.
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02/05/2014
The lagoon at Van Stadens Mouth
We spent a day at Van Stadens Mouth Resort for the first time in many years and the KidZ absolutely loved the lagoon next to the resort. There are paddle boats for hire but we took along our own little blowup boat along and it was a huge struggle to get the KidZ out of the water for the braai later on.
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01/05/2014
Natures Way Farm Stall
South Africa has some impressive farm stalls. Some sell nothing more than fresh produce while others are for all intensive purposes a restaurant or curio shop along a high way or back road somewhere. Its the ones in between that really interests me. Those who sell something fresh, some curios and also serve a killer meal, even if its nothing more than roosterkoek with jam and cheese. And coffee. Lets not forget coffee. I discovered a farm stall like this on the road…
30/04/2014
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