I got an email from one of the PE Daily Photo followers, Yolande Gerard-de Vinck, a day or so ago with a photo she took at 06:00 on Saturday 16 August. She just said that it is towards Addo and the first windmill in the area so I'm not sure if its the Coega turbine or possibly one that is already up at the Grassridge wind farm. Never the less its a beautiful shot. If only I got up early…
The Donkin Reserve always produce a new photo when I visit. On my last visit I climbed to the top of the lighthouse with a group of kids from St Dominic Priory and snapped this photo through the windows of one of the girls having a closer look at the light.
Last year the first ever Color Run in South Africa took place in Port Elizabeth, so it was appropriate for the city to stage the first South African one in 2014 again. I got an invite from Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism to come and participate in the event along with the family and on a slightly cold and wet Sunday morning headed down to the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. I wasn't sure how a powder paint event would go down…
I have always said (and will always say) that St Georges Park has the potential to be Port Elizabeth's own Central Park. Somewhere locals can go to relax and take part in activities. Pity most people don't go there because of the preconception that its a dangerous place. I snapped this picture of the Pearson Conservatory on a visit to the park with the St Dominic Priory grade 6's and gave it a slight HDR touchup to enhance it.
Port Elizabethans came out in their thousands today to take part in the happiest 5k run on the planet. The Color Run came to Port Elizabeth for a second time (the first in 2013 was actually the first in South Africa) and the locals were hell bent to have fun come rain or shine... well mostly rain. BUT and I have to say but, they didn't allow the rain to spoil their day. In actual fact it only helped to make everybody even…
Every year I take the St Dominic Priory grade 6 classes on a tour of Port Elizabeth and have so much fun teaching them a little more about the city's history. Yesterday we headed out in the howling wind but didn't allow the weather gods to put us off. Four hours later we had gone for a walk through St Georges Park, visited Fort Frederick, climbed the 204 steps up (and back down) the Campanile, quietly made our way around the Public Library,…
A road trip to East London from Port Elizabeth along the N2 via Grahamstown. The historic Fort Peddie in the town of Peddie dating back to the Frontier Wars. A geocache. These three things added up to a great solo adventure a couple of weeks ago. I've been eyeing the cache at Fort Peddy for a while now but a trip to East London for a meeting was the excuse to do it. This fort was built in 1835 on the…
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/oQP1UVxO2W4&source=udsThis is the one of the most amazing videos you will ever see about Algoa Bay and that is all I'm going to say... No its not. Here I would like to quote some info from Wikipedia. Algoa Bay is a wide inlet along the South African east coast, 683 kilometres east of the Cape of Good Hope. It is bounded in the west by Cape Recife and in the east by Cape Padrone. The city of Port Elizabeth with its harbor is…
Long before the The Boardwalk complex with the hotel, casino and entertainment center was build there used to be a Boardwalk. The center where Barneys, Blue Waters Café and what used to be called The Red Windmill (sorry, I have no idea what they are called now) are located is also called the Boardwalk. The reason? Its located along Port Elizabeth's beautiful beachfront walkway.
Driving along the N2 through the Tsitsikamma you have to pass over the Storms River Bridge with most visitors stopping at the Petroport for a view of the bridge from the view site or into the gorge from the bridge itself. To get to the walkway on the southern side of the bridge you have to first go under it giving you this slightly different view of it.