Everlastings
Everlasting flowers amongst the Fynbos on the hillside close to Cotswold
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20/08/2013
Cape Baffalo
When you ask visitors which of the Big 5 they would like to see the lion and elephant always comes up first followed by the rhino and then the leopard. For some reason the buffalo always seem to be forgotten. Why? Because people see it as little more than wild cattle? Perhaps. What they don't realise is that the very docile and quiet looking Cape Buffalo are aggravated very easily and then turns into a killing machine, goring those in its…
19/08/2013
The view from Kirkwood Lookout
On Friday I took part in the Skäl Nelson Mandela Bay's annual Tourism Amazing Race. This year it took place in the beautiful Sundays River Valley north of Port Elizabeth. I purposely left my camera behind as the team I was in went all out to defend our title from last year. In the end we came in first but due to a 5min penalty got relegated to second. Just to show how competitive the race between the top teams were its important to…
19/08/2013
Santa’s beach hangout
On a geocaching outing along Marine Drive the other day, Chaos Boy was very chuffed to find the spot where Santa hangs out during the year. The painted rock is visible from the road but not as well known as the bikini tree lady on Buffelsfontein Road.
18/08/2013
Flyover fountain
One of the first things they did when they started with the Route 67 developement was to open up the section of Strand Street between Market Square and the Campanile. A new set of steps were built to link the two areas and at the bottom of the steps a fountain was installed to cheer the area up a bit.
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17/08/2013
View of Kuzuko Lodge
Kuzuko Lodge, a private concession in the Greater Addo Elephant National Park, sits on top of a hill overlooking the surrounding countryside. It has beautiful views down the valley and beyond, but I would like to share a picture of the lodge taken from the valley while we were on our afternoon game drive
16/08/2013
Conservatory history
The Pearson Conservatory in St George's Park was opened by Honourable John X Merriman on 12 September 1882 at a cost of £3,800. It is named after Mr HW Pearson, the Mayor of Port Elizabeth at that time.The Eastern Province Herald discribed the conservatory as following in an article the next day. The structure consists of a centre building and two wings. The central building measures 25 feet by 50 feet by 29 feet high to the centre of the skylight. The roof…
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16/08/2013
N2 view
Standing at the same spot as yesterday's post from where I took the picture of the Cotswold (Moregrove) Quarry but looking the other way, the N2 snakes away from the suburbs towards Algoa Bay. The N2 is the main road from Cape Town along the Garden Route, through Port Elizabeth and up along the east coast past Durban.
15/08/2013
Cotswold Quarry
Situated next to the suburb of Cotswold is the Cotswold Quarry where they collect supacrush for building purposes. I got to this lookout area with fellow geocacher Seekoei the other day on a caching expedition. Even though I've always known that it's there I actually don't know much about the quarry and thought to consult my good friend Google. Unfortunately he didn't know anything either. There seems to be one more informed that my friend Google and that is regular PEDP…
14/08/2013
Aloe close up
Although there are still lots of flowering aloes about you can clearly see that the aloe season is slowly coming to an end. I wish they could flower all year round. But saying that, it wouldn't be as special if they did. Here's a close up of an aloe flower for those who may have wondered what it looks like.
13/08/2013
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