[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDWIRMptkoY&w=500&h=400]This week's Video Friday post is another featuring a video by Chasing the Rainbow. In this one they explore the southern and western outskirts of Port Elizabeth while traveling along the Sunshine Saunter.
We all have our travel bucket lists. In actual fact, I have three. One for South Africa, one for Africa and the other for international travel. I have never been to Mpumalanga so both Kruger National Park and the Panorama Route were very high on my South African travel bucket list until I got the chance to tick one of them off recently. A trip to White River for the SATSA conference meant I had a morning for a pre-conference…
If you continue along the beachfront walkway past the lollipop beacon onto the boardwalk it feels like the coastline suddenly transforms. You feel just that little bit further away from the city. I did it during the week early one morning and there wasn't another soul around until I encountered another walker on the way back to my car, but if you feel wary doing it when it's this quiet, do it on a Saturday morning when there are more…
The Wild Coast is famous for it's magnificent coastline which can be explored in various ways ranging from hotel to hotel slack packing, spending time with locals or while staying at one of the excellent family hotels along the coast. I spent a night at Kob Inn at the Qora River mouth and got to have a quick look around the coastline bordering the hotel. I can just imagine spending a few days there in summer exploring these beaches. Qora River…
This morning I had the honour and privilege to be involved in the organising and execution of the Port Elizabeth leg of the Travel Massive / National Department of Tourism #womenintourism breakfast event at the Summerstrand Hotel. It coincided with Women's Month and we made use of the opportunity to celebrate the involvement of women in the tourism industry. The theme of the event was Doek on Fleek and most of the women in attendance were wearing a doek with…
Have you ever walked further along the beachfront boardwalk than the lollipop beacon on the corner of Admiralty Road and Marine Drive. This morning I had 20 minutes or so before a workshop at the Summerstrand Hotel and decided to venture a little further down than usual. A beautiful morning with the sea on the one side and among the coastal vegetation yet less than 100 meters from Marine Drive. What an awesome asset the city has in this stunning…
Just yesterday I asked somebody if they also thought that we didn't have a very cold winter this year as I stood sweating in the sun outside the lodge at Mount Camdeboo Game Reserve outside Graaff-Reinet. This morning we woke up to a freezing wind and snow on the mountains in the area. On my way back this afternoon I heard it hailed in some parts of Port Elizabeth. I pulled off the freeway and made a quick stop in…
Blue skies, no wind, flat water, warm winters day... Sounds like the perfect day to paddle on the Bushmans River at Kenton-on-Sea. Or at least sit on a jetty and watch somebody do it like we did.
Every now and then I post a photo or two that wasn't taken in Port Elizabeth or the greater Nelson Mandela Bay. Normally it's because I have run out of PE photos or haven't had a chance to take one. Today is one of those days. I'm posting this from Mount Camdeboo Game Reserve outside Graaff-Reinet where I am attending the Karoo Heartland AGM tomorrow. On my way here I stopped at my favorite two Karoo gnomes a few kilometers…
It is as if the palm trees in Kings Beach Park were planted there for photographers to get pics of their reflection in the lake.