I was invited to be the speaker at the first Port Elizabeth #TravelTalk event hosted in Port Elizabeth by Urban-Econ which took place at the GFI Art Gallery this week. The GFI Gallery, previously known as the Ron Belling Art Gallery, have recently seen a big renovation and expansion and is looking stunning. If you haven't been recently then it's worth the visit.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t917uAleNsc&w=500&h=400]I often wish I had a drone to be able to shoot some aerial views of all the fantastic places and attractions around Port Elizabeth. Check out this awesome video I found on YouTube showing off PE from the air done by Jayme Thompson in collaboration with Indian Swell Productions and Jared Lotz. PEness is AWESOMEness.
Mount Camdeboo Game Reserve outside Graaff-Reinet has a Sable antelope breeding program and while on the game drive we stopped next to the camp for a closer look. This young male came walking towards the fence and stood still watching us long enough for me to get a nice head-on photo of him. Just a pity for the fence wires in between.Some info about the Sable courtesy of Wikipedia:The sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) is an antelope which inhabits wooded savannah…
The old fence on the wall around the Holy Trinity Church in Central has always fascinated me and it makes for a nice foreground for photos of the church as well.
It's sad to think that the Baakens River mouth was once a big lagoon where passing ships came to collect fresh water for their voyages yet today it's a cement canal under the Settlers Freeway which flows into the PE Harbour. Some major revamping and restoration needed to give this river mouth any dignity again.
Port Elizabeth can't boast with Jacaranda Trees flowering so beautifully around town in Spring as Pretoria and Bloemfontein can, but I just luuuvvveee all the Coral Trees flowering around the city.
A lot of people have the policy that if you want something done you have to do it yourself, especially if you don't really have anybody to delegate to. But even then you need somebody to push a rock out of the way for you every now and then. I had a funny "push a rock out the way" moment on a game drive at Mount Camdeboo Game Reserve outside Graaff-Reinet the other day. We weer driving up the mountain…
It turns out that the Voting Line on the Donkin Reserve isn't just made up of interesting and diverse silhouettes, it also throws the most interesting shadows.
The woman with the chair, Anton Momberg's Untitled art piece forming part of Route 67, looks across the Donkin Reserve towards the Donkin Lighthouse and Pyramid.
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.