This past week I posted two posts featuring the historic St Mary's Cemetery at the bottom of the Baakens Valley. There are so many interesting bits to photograph in a cemetery like this one of what looks like such a sad angel.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLuHT9CAWgI&w=500&h=400]Last week's Video Friday post was a video featuring mountain biking in the Baakens Valley. Following that post I found another video about mountain biking through the Baakens Valley and seeing that it's such an awesome mountain biking venue I decided to post it as well.
While walking in the Sardinia Bay Nature Reserve last weekend I realised that you don't need to travel to the West Coast to see flowers. We also have a huge variety of wild flowers in bloom during spring. We may not have the quantity but we definitely have the variety and the beauty.
Yesterday I posted a photo of the St Mary's Cemetery along with the grave yard's history. I decided to follow it up with another photo of the cemetery but from a totally different angle. This one is standing at the bottom and looking away from the road and up the terraces.
I got to attend Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism's launch of Tourism Month at the newly refurbished Tramways Buildings a week or two ago and had some time on my hands before the event began so went for a walk through St Mary's Cemetery. It's really sad to see the state the cemetery is in specially seeing the historic value and position it has. I went scratching for the history around the cemetery and this is what I cam up with.In…
The Voting Line on the Donkin Reserve is on of my favorite art pieces forming part of Route 67. Most people usually photograph them from the other side but this time I wanted to include the row of Donkin Houses in the background. Built in the mid 1800's the houses have recently been refurbished, forming part of a very exciting new business hub developing in the inner city.
The road to Noodhulp (Afrikaans for First Aid) is not what you call the route somebody takes when they are cruising for a bruising and looking for trouble with a big oke. Not that kind of thing at all. I found the road to Noodhulp while en route to Mount Camdeboo Private Game Reserve outside Graaff-Reinet and after a double take reversed back for a better look to make sure that was the name I saw and then a…
After a morning of mowing the law and doing some things around the house I headed out for a spot of Geocaching this afternoon. Rather than just doing a few park and grab caches, I opted to go for a walk in the Sardinia Bay Nature Reserve and pick up a series of 12 caches that I've been wanting to do for a while now. The caches in question aren't on the regular trails but rather higher up in the…
Every year thousands of people worldwide pitch in and do their bit on International Coastal Cleanup Day. Anualy thousands of tons of garbage winds up in the oceans, with 60% of that being composed of plastic material. Plastics especially last a very long time in the ocean, and are in such abundance that there are 46,000 individual pieces of plastic litter for every square mile of ocean. Plastics are very hazardous to marine life, killing more than a million birds…
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hh-AqM29ms&w=500&h=400]We are so fortunate to have the Baakens Valley green belt running through Port Elizabeth. The area truly has the potential to become a prime outdoors activities part of the city and already is very popular with mountain bikers and trail runners. When I found this great video on YouTube showing off the great trails through the valley I just had to share it with you.