It's not often that you get the opportunity to see game right in the city. An early morning walk on the Grysbok Trail in the NMMU Nature Reserve gave us the opportunity to see zebra fairly close up and while on foot.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjSUxRPPe7U&w=500&h=400]This destination marketing video was produced in 2009 by Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism for the Chinese market and it combined both information about Port Elizabeth, the greater Nelson Mandela Bay and the rest of the Eastern Cape. Watching this just reminds one again what a beautiful area we live in.
The spectacular view of the Boardwalk Hotel, with the extra bonus of the fountains in full flight, at night from the pier
One of the three slides that is part of the zipline experience at Pine Lodge in Cape Recife
I've been collecting historic photos from the Port Elizabeth groups on Facebook to be able to do Then and Now posts and found the "Then" one in this post showing the Port Elizabeth Airport in what I guess was probable somewhere in the 60's. Perhaps the older folk around here can help me out on this one. The day after finding this photo I had to drop something off at the airport and snapped the "Now" picture. Clearly there's a lot more cars, and…
Every year we go on a camping over the summer school holiday. We're not the "return to the same place year after year" type of campers as we want to explore and discover new places. As we live in Port Elizabeth and by the sea, we're also not bothered by coastal holidays which tends to be windy in summer and effects us badly as we camp in tents. After a lot of searching and researching, we settled on Vloedbos in…
Last week I did a post Then and Now : Humewood Beach showing a couple of historic photos of Humewood beach along with a modern one. I purposely didn't post the two historic photos of the Humewood Slipway below as they were taken from a different direction and I decided to make a separate post for them. The pillars and old slipway you can still see at Humewood Beach was built long before Port Elizabeth had a harbour. Construction on the…
Chaos Boy spent Saturday afternoon at a friend's place in Seaview and I headed out there late afternoon to fetch him. It wasn't quite sunset time yet, but the sun was starting to head towards the horizon so I pulled over to snap this pic. I'm still trying to figure out the best setting on my DSLR to take sunset pictures but hopefully I'll get there soon.
Fort Frederick, built in 1799, was originally defended by two 8-pounder guns and one 5.5 inch Howitzer. These guns, that never fired a shot in anger, was removed when the fort was decommissioned. But what is a fort, even a historic one that has been declared a national monument, without guns? So a selection of muzzle-loaders dating from the later part of the eighteenth century was placed on the fort to simbolise the original guns.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OIy08BSKNo&w=500&h=400]When last have you been on a train? It's something most of us don't get to do and I really think it's leaving gap in our lives. And to think it's something our parents probably did quite often when they were young. Alan Straton of MyPE took the train from Uitenhage to Port Elizabeth and condensed the 45 minute trip in 3 minutes. I loved it when I saw it and just had to share.