Standing on the road bridge over the N2 in the Van Stadens Wildflower Reserve looking down the highway towards Port Elizabeth. Looking down on this dual carriage way it's hard to believe that it is the main highway just west of Port Elizabeth. Nice and quiet. Just the way we like our roads.
Bethulie in the southern Free State is one of those places not many people pass through as it's not really on any of the main thoroughfares going south (or north, depending how you look at it). On my last trip up to Johannesburg I deviated off the normal route to see what this town on the banks of the Orange River is all about. One of the things I found out was that Bethulie was the site of one of…
Looking down the zig zagging Van Stadens River gorge towards the N2 Van Stadens Bridge while hiking in the Wildflower Reserve yesterday
This afternoon we headed out to the Van Stadens Wildflower Reserve for a quick walk to go and find the oldest Geocache in Port Elizabeth. While the Damselfly waited in the car, Drama Princess and I headed down one of the trails in search of this very significant cache. The Pincushion Proteas are stunning at the moment so I kept on falling behind.
The beautiful Schoenmakerskop coastline
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIPULi8q1h0&w=500&h=400]The 19 hectare Bird Island in Algoa Bay is home to 250,000 Cape gannets, the largest breeding colony of these birds on the planet. In 2014 Alan Straton of MyPE did this great time lapse of Gannets on Bird Island at sunrise.
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is made up of Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, Despatch and the surrounding area. But how much do you really know of Despatch?The Despatch area was originally occupied by a flourishing brick industry based here due to the rich clay soil you find in the district. It got its name from the fact that bricks got dispatched form the original railway siding that connected to the main line running to Port Elizabeth from Uitenhage. Many of the…
Signal Hill in Cape Town isn't just a great spot to view the sunset from, but it's also has some awesome views which is ideal if you don't have the time or budget to go up Table Mountain.Green Point with the Cape Town Stadium and Table Bay with Robben Island in the distance on the leftCape Town Harbour with the V&A Waterfront as well as the City BowlTable Mountain, Lion's Head and the Twelve Apostles
I am always amazed when I see flowers right on the coast like these at Schoenies. I know they are hardy but how they survive growing in sand and bad soil and getting battered by the salty sea winds all the time and still flower like this is above me.
On Saturday we stopped by the East Cape Horse Care Unit based at Animal Welfare on Victoria Drive for the first time in a while to visit the donkeys. Naturally we took a bag of carrots along but clearly we didn't have enough. Will have to visit again quite soon. "Hey, did you bring us some carrots?""Don't hold it so far, I can barely reach..."