Being tall isn't always that easy. Sometimes those long legs need a rest as well. You won't easily see giraffes sitting down where there are lions in the area. That's because they are all legs when they get up and can easily be taken off guard. Luckily for this one she lives in the Seaview Preditor Park and the lions here are in seperate enclosures.
This past week, ending today, has been South African National Parks week. The whole idea behind the week is to encourage South Africans to support and visit our National Parks more. During the week entrance to the parks are free to South African citizens. I got to go to Addo twice this week, first with a group of hotel frontline staff and again yesterday with a group of old folk from the Malabar Home of the Aged. Addo was buzzing…
Aloes are amongst my favorite flowers, specially because they bloom in winter, so I'm always a bit sad at this time of the year when the flowers start to wilt and disappear.
The wake of the Sundays River Ferry with the N2 bridge over the river in the background
As you all know, Port Elizabeth Daily Photo isn't just always about places and historic sites around the city. Far from it actually. Walking around the Donkin Reserve the other day I snapped this pic of a fiscal shrike sitting on top of an aloe. I wonder what he had his eye on at this moment. Perhaps a little lizard scampering away in the nearby rock garden?
On a recent visit to Kuzuko Lodge in the greater Addo Elephant National Park we had some amazing sightings. The afternoon game drive started with a close up sighting of their two male lions before we encountered a herd of elephants in a valley close to the lodge. The matriarch put up a spectacular mock charge what with flapping ears, stamping of feet and the shaking of a poor little bush. Unfortunately I didn't have me camera at the ready and missed…
I wonder how many people drive down (or up) Villiers Road in Walmer every day without ever noticing this sign painted on a log next to the road. I for one never saw it until I was taken there in search of a geocache recently. The bumpy road it refers to leads to the Walmer Woods driving range.
he Lovemore surname is closely linked to Port Elizabeth and it's early history, specially out in the western side of the city. This is all thanks to one Henry LOVEMORE who left England to settle in Port Elizabeth in 1820. Although he came at the time of the British Settlers who settled east of the city around Grahamstown and Bathurst, Lovemore paid for his passage and purchased Bushy Park, then known as Klaas Kraal, for the princely sum of one thousand pounds.Lore has it that…
I always say how fortunate we are in Port Elizabeth to have so many game reserves and game parks close to the city, but I say it because I really mean it. For a quick game watching outing and for sheer number and variety of animals I prefer Kragga Kamma Game Park, but visiting Seaview Preditor Park the other day I did get this great scene with zebra, blesbuck and giraffe.
A couple of guys fishing on the Sundays River. Cool name for the boat specially if its used to escape the wives for a day of beers and fishing.