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Grand White Dinner Port Elizabeth competition

It's competition time!!!!!  Port Elizabeth Daily Photo and The Grand White Team is giving away two basic tickets to the first Grand White Dinner to be hosted in Port Elizabeth. The Grand White Dinner Port Elizabeth takes place on Saturday 8 March 2014 at ........  Nope, I'm not allowed to tell you where because it is a secret until only a couple of hours before it starts.  The Grand White is an elegant picnic event setting the standard for extravagant outdoor events…

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11/02/2014
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Enjoying Kini Bay

The gully on the beach at Kini Bay is fast becoming a favorite with my family.  It's safe, not too crowded and a great spot to teach the kids how to snorkel.

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10/02/2014
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The magnificence that is Addo Elephant National Park

I've been in the tourism industry for 16 years and first started out working as a tourist guide back in 1998.  Back then I used to go to Addo Elephant National Park sometimes as often as 5 or 6 times a week and people used to ask if I didn't get tired of going there.  I did get tired of the drive to and from the park but I would never get tired of the park itself.  It quickly became one…

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10/02/2014
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Bright mohair colours

The Hinterveld mohair weaving mill in Uitenhage produces mohair blankets and other products for retail all over the world.  Who would ever have thought that Uitenhage would play on major fashion platforms but when you see the products produced there you would not be surprised.

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09/02/2014
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Putt-putt at the Boardwalk

I haven't played putt-putt in ages and the other night got pulled into a family putt-putt tournament with Damselfly, Chaos Boy, Drama Princess and my mom at the Boardwalk.  I'm proud to say that I haven't lost the touch and walked away with the honours.

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08/02/2014
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Swartkops River and salt pans

The Swartkops River and surrounding estuary is a wonderful place, even with it's pollution problems.  It's an amazing birding wetland and a major salt producing area.  Looking at the picture the actual river is in the background on the left while the big channel through the middle of the picture is part of the salt pan system used by salt producers.  The vegetated area to the right of the river is part of the Zwartkops Nature Reserve. 

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07/02/2014
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Top of Maitland Dune

I often wonder how many Port Elizabeth folk have never climbed up the Maitland dune at least once in their life.  Can't be many but if you haven't, this is the view you would not have seen.

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06/02/2014
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Driving on the dunes at Brakkeduine

Boys will be boys and when it comes to boys and their 4x4 toys there is no stopping them.  When the South African government banned driving on beaches both the angling and 4x4 fraternities took a big knock.  The anglers couldn't go as far along the beaches as they used to or had to find overland shortcuts while the 4x4 okes had to stick to mountain trails and off road paths.  There is one place I know of where the boys can test their…

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06/02/2014
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Sacramento cannon at Bayworld

The Shipwreck Hall in the Port Elizabeth Museum at Bayworld has some excellent information on shipwrecks around Port Elizabeth.  The displays contain a lot of artifacts salvaged from wrecks like the Sacramento, Amsterdam and Doddington.  One of the items that form the centerpiece display is a cannon salvaged from the wreck site of the Portuguese galleon Sacramento near Schoenmakerskop in the 1970's.  The Sacramento ran aground in a storm on this coastline in 1647 with 72 survivors making it to land…

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04/02/2014
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Karoo scene at the foothills of the Zuurberg

The Karoo is a hauntingly beautiful place.  A lot of people may find it boring but most see a beauty that is often described differently by every person.  Wide open spaces with blue skies above, a couple of sheep grazing on the sparse green grass around a wind pump filled cement dam, late winter aloes in bloom with a Karoo koppie in the background, farm workers' children playing in the dust close to a flat roof worker's house, somebody walking down…

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04/02/2014