Winter may be coming but for the past four days summer's been gracing us with her presence. From the look of it she's also planning to hang around for the weekend. Hey, I'm not complaining.
Today is International Penguin Day and in celebration thereof I'm posting a pic of Drama Princess interacting with one of the African Penguin at SAMREC in Cape Recife.
The 25th of April is Internation Penguin Day and with Algoa Bay being home to the biggest population of African Penguins in the world I thought I would do a post to celebrate it. The South African Marine Rehabilitation and Education Centre (SAMREC) is located in the Cape Recife Nature Reserve in Port Elizabeth and the staff and volunteers involved there do an amazing job in the conservation effort of this endangered specie.Why is 25 April celebrated as International Penguin…
On Saturday I took Chaos Boy and 15, yes 15 of his friends to SAMREC for his 11th birthday party. Eddie from SAMREC showed them around the centre and told them all about penguins, the ocean and why conservation is so important. Here they're learning more about the birds in the penguin pool. Thank goodness we got through the tour with nothing broken cause with this lot anything was possible.
"A birthday party with 20 kids! Are you mad?" Just one of the comments I got when I told people that Chaos Boy has invited 20 kids to his birthday party this past weekend. "What are you going to do with them? They'll wreck your house!" Another couple of comments. Well, I asked Chaos Boy what he wanted to do for his birthday party and he decided that he wanted to take his friends to go and see the penguins…
4 August 1991 was a dramatic and fateful day on the Eastern Cape coastline with the sinking of the MTS Oceanos on the Wild Coast close to Coffee Bay, east of East London. What does this have to do with Port Elizabeth, you ask? After all 571 passengers on board was rescued, some of the lifeboats floated south-west along the ocean currents with one of them washing up on the coastline at Schoenmakerskop. I got to visit the lifeboat for…
The well in the courtyard at No 7 Castle Hill must truly be one of the highlights to kids visiting the museum. Not because of the hole in the ground, but for the pump that gets the water out the hole. The date on the pump is 1849 which means its been in place for over 150 years already. Rain water collects in the well from the roof and kids are encouraged to try it out. According to Grizel Hart, the…
Earth Day gets celebrated annually on this day, 22 April, to demonstrate support for environmental protection and is celebrated in more than 192 countries every year. The name and concept of Earth Day was pioneered at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco by John McConnell in 1969 . He proposed 21 March 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere., for the celebration of this special day. A month later a separate Earth Day was founded by United…
Geocaching is taking me to all kinds of places I haven't been to before. And here I was thinking I've been everywhere. This specific Grannynasty cache took me a bit off the beaten track along a dirt road just west of the Van Stadens Bridge to the old Sunnyside Station, 29 1/2 miles from Port Elizabeth. The station is on the narrow gauge railway line that runs from Port Elizabeth all the way to Avontuur in the Langkloof. The line which used…
The VW AutoPavilion is an absolute heaven for any car fanatic with some great Volkswagen related exhibits covering the whole history of VW. Outside the front entrance of the museum is a roadhouse and garage that may take some people back in time a little bit. But so will most of the exhibits inside the museum as well.