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Finding bracket fungus while out caching

On my way home this afternoon I stopped to pick up a few Geocaches and at one of the cache locations on Kragga Kamma Road I found this very distinctive bracket fungus growing on the back of the tree.  Polypores are a group of fungi that form fruiting bodies with pores or tubes on the underside and is also called bracket or shelf fungi.  Their woody fruiting bodies are called conks and they inhabit tree trunks or branches consuming the…

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16/02/2017
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Little Miss Cricket

 Today's post is a more personal one.  Why? Because I can and I feel like bragging a bit.When your daughter's idols are Kagiso Rabada, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers and Imran Tahir then you know she's a cricket fan.  The difference from other girls who are just cricket fans though is that mine has a set of pads, gloves, a helmet and two bats (one for outdoor cricket and one for indoor cricket) lying around her room along with her…

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15/02/2017
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The Untitled Woman on the Donkin Reserve

Standing at the top of the Donkin Reserve stands a lone woman on a pedestal holding a chair while looking across the square.  She is one of the art pieces which is part of Route 67 and is the work of well known artist Anton Momberg.  Do you know what she represents?  Take a guess.  I will come back tomorrow to place the answer as part of this post below.

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14/02/2017
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The Donkin Mosaic

Isn't the 470 square meter mosaic on the Donkin Reserve just the most awesome piece of mosaic art in the city?  The piece represents the multi-cultural, the heritages, the diverse histories and the abundant fauna and flora that characterises the city and province.

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13/02/2017
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Camping in the Drakensberg

The general holiday question is always, BEACH or BUSH?  I will probably choose bush over beach 7 out of 10 times but that's because I live on the coast.  It's also because I love getting away to a forest, the bush, a game reserve or the wide open spaces of the Karoo.  Although I feel you can group all these things into the BUSH category, something is definitely missing from that question though.  MOUNTAINS, definitely mountains.  The question should be…

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13/02/2017
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The UFO has landed

One of the Route 67 art pieces that gets the most discussion by visitors is artist Mxolisi Dolla Sapeta's bird-like statue.  The Fish-Bird looks like a UFO that has landed and visitors would be excused if they looked around for little green men running around.  The Fish-Bird represents the fish in Algoa bay and the birds up on the Donkin Reserve and has returning back to the Donkin to take ownership of this transforming site.

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12/02/2017
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Memorials in the Donkin Memorial Garden

Visitors to the Donkin Reserve will notice a number of memorials located next to the lighthouse building in a memorial garden made up of spekboom and euphorbia.  This section of the Donkin Reserve has been dedicated to the memory of municipal councilors who have died while serving the city.  The garden was unveiled to remember 52 (at the time of unveiling) councilors from different political backgrounds who died while in office and who's deaths range from illness to car accidents…

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11/02/2017
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NMMU mass line dance – 2013

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=702mrIEEyIU&w=500&h=400]I came across this video of a mass line dance that was done at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University on 21 February 2013.  Don't know how I haven't seen it before, but I just have to share it with you for today's Video Friday post.

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10/02/2017
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A Mandela quote for today

The time for healing of the wounds has come,The moment to bridge the chasm that divides us has come,The time to build is upon us.These words were spoken by Nelson Mandela in 1994 and is on display along Route 67 on the Donkin Reserve.  Words which are as appropriate today as it was back in 1994. 

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09/02/2017
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Chomp up the city

If you stand at the right angle it really looks like one of the seats on the Donkin Reserve is chomping away at the city behind it.  The art is by well known Port Elizabeth graffiti artist Joff, 

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08/02/2017