I went for a walk around the new Kings Beach development with the Damselfly and just realised again how the beachfront has been enhanced. And its not even finished yet. I can't wait to see the new additions they're still working on. Plus what is yet to come.
Looking across the Port Elizabeth Harbour from the harbour wall to the city centre with the Campanile just to the left of the middle of the picture. This is a view of the Campanile that not a lot of people have seen. The Hill Presbyterian Church can just be seen on the left edge of the photo.
Many years ago people could fish off and walk on the Port Elizabeth Harbour wall, but this changed with the upgrading of security protocol at harbours a numer of years ago. Big Huge Humongous was my surprise when I went for a walk on Kings Beach all the way to the harbour wall for the first time in a very very long time. Getting to the wall I found no barriers, no fences or even signs stating that one isn't allowed onto the wall. …
My favourite Route 67 art piece on the Donkin Reserve must be The Voting Line. The Voting Line was created by artists Anthony Harris and Konrad Geel and consist of life-size laser-cut steel figures that form a symbolic voting line celebrating the voters as they were seen in the country's first democratic elections in 1994. At the front of the line stands the figure of Nelson Mandela, fist triumphantly in the air, and a group of children. The children…
When I saw this lion at Kuzuko Lodge near Port Elizabeth it immediately reminded me of the lion on the Lion Safety Matches logo. There is a bit of a resemblance.
Along the Wildside there are many fresh water springs that originate from water that has collected between the (vegetated) sand dunes along what used to be the Driftsands area. The water then emerges again on the coast in the form of springs and flow to the sea. In some places it dams up above the high water mark between rocks and swampy spots get formed. In the search of a geocache the other day I had to cross through one of these…
Its officially autumn (or has been for the last 11 days), but may the summer weather remain for quite a bit longer. Here's hoping, I'm not quite ready for winter yet.
Have you ever wondered what moss seed looks like? On a visit to the Tsitsikamma I was taking a couple of macro pictures of moss between rocks when I found that a patch of it was seeding. I've noticed it before but never realised what it was I was looking at.
A kelp gull taking it easy and enjoying the view on Kings Beach with a ship berthed in the Port Elizabeth Harbour in the background.
A navy ship busy leaving Algoa Bay while a number of big ships wait in the background to enter either the Port Elizabeth or Coega Harbours.