Have you ever noticed the knight above the old city emblem on the Public Library in the city centre? Or the figure below? Although probably a gargoyle but it does look like some mythical forest creature.
I'm finally busy going through and editing the pictures I took in Graaff-Reinet a few weekends ago and will start posting about our visit shortly. One of the photos I found was this one of Miggie standing in the door at the Reinet House museum looking up towards the Drostdy Hotel. She clearly likes being outdoors a lot more than going through museums.
I was going through some older photos of mine and came across this one I took in New Brighton a while back. This lady sells roosterkoek and vetkoek from a container near the Red Location Museum (which is currently still closed) and when I worked for Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism and got to go to the museum often I always stopped here from either. About 5 years back she used to sell the roosterkoek for R1.50 plain and R1.80 buttered.…
The Latin name for the Red Hot Poker is Kniphofia and its also sometimes known as a Torch lily or Poker plant. According to Wikipedia, it is a genus of plants in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae, that includes 70 or more species native to Africa. This specific one I found close to Schoenies.
A walk around the Reinet House Museum in Graaff-Reinet recently had me wander into the mill house in the backyard. They're currently busy with restoration work and a hand written sign on a piece of torn off cardboard caught my eye. I just had to snicker. Clearly somebody asked one of the Afrikaans workers doing the restoration to just put up a sign so that people don't fidget with the mechanism and this was the result. No, I'm not being…
If you're a regular follower of PE Daily Photo you would know that my daughter Miggie was selected to the SA Indoor Cricket Girls Team that is going on an inland tour at the end of September. Even though it's not an international trip it's still going to cost us a pretty penny sending her on the tour. Money I honestly don't have. Which means that we're going to have to do a bit of fund raising and the first project…
I'm not an early morning person. Too much of a night owl. So one of the things I like about winter is the fact that the sun comes up later allowing me to get the occasional sunrise pic. This is a recycled one but I'm hoping to get a few again soon.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TGQQvIUFt4&w=500&h=400]I spent the week in Durban at the annual Tourism Indaba hosted by South African Tourism and can't but help to feel very positive about the country's tourism industry. To tell the truth, tourism is the industry that has the potential to create the most jobs in South Africa and can become one of the keys to cutting down on the country's unemployment rate. But that isn't what this post is about. As it is Video Friday, I am sharing…
One of the things I really enjoy about driving past Swartkops to Uitenhage is seeing the flamingos in the estuary and salt pans. Usually I'm in a hurry to get to where I have to be and I really need to stop more often and take some more photos of them.
Hiking to the Waterfall at InniKoof outside Hankey wasn't just about the beautiful views and the waterfalls. It was also about patterns, textures and colours. Nature really offers us so much more than the big pictures. I haven't done a Random ... post for a while so here is one. Random patterns and textures from the InniKloof Waterfall Hike.