Green energy

The Pick n Pay head office next to Walmer Park Shopping Centre recently launched a new phase in its effort to achieve energy independence. It erected a small "wind farm". The stars of the show is three 12-metre e300 Kestrel turbines built at Eveready's Port Elizabeth factory.For more information, read this article.

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The boy in the red shirt

On our recent trip to Cape St Francis, Chaos Boy decided to tag along on my outing to find the wreck indicated on the information sheet at the resort we were staying at. While I was taking pictures all over the show, he was exploring away on his own. I liked how his red shirt stood out against the greenery.He found a lot of "sea sound shells" as he calls any shell he can keep up to his ear to…

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Standing in line

Today is South Africa's 4th democratic national elections. The polls opened at 07h00 and will be open untill 21h00 tonight. Because of the elections it is a national holiday to enable everybody to go and vote.

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Pink Candelabra

In September I did a post featuring the Seal Point Lighthouse with a Candelabra flower in the foreground which I took some time ago. On our recent visit the Candelabra flowers were in bloom again and I decided to see if I can get some slight variations on the original photo. So here is one of the pic I came up with.

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Lighthouse study

About two weeks ago Max did a similar series of photos on the Cape St Francis lighthouse on The maX Files and after seeing it I felt inspired to try some creative shots in the lighthouse as well. Looking out one of the lighthouse windows on the way out Damp taking its tollSpiraling down One powerful light bulb Zebra railing?

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Big kitty

Kragga Kamma Game Park is situated on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth and is the ideal spot to go and view lots of wild game close to the city if you haven't got enough time to head out to Addo Elephant National Park or one of the bigger game reserve. The reserve has white rhino, buffalo, giraffe, zebra and loads of different antelope. One of the highlights of the visit to Kragga Kamma is the opportunity that visitors has to…

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Under the promenade

Visitors to Port Elizabeth's beachfront will more than likely take a walk along the beachfront promenade between Kings Beach and Hobie Beach past Humewood Beach and Happy Valley. The other day walking along there I decided to climb down the steps to the small strip of beach and got this photo looking towards Hobie Beach side. The promenade is visible on the left.

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Rain spider

Regular visitors my remember that I did a post a couple of weeks ago about a Rain Spider's Nest. This last weekend on our camping trip the people on the site next to us found a rain spider in their caravan and the man caught it and brought it out to release it in to the bush again. As always I had my camera on hand.

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