Port Elizabeth has a number of restaurants with great sea views, one of the Barnacles in Seaview. The view from the deck at Barnacles overlook the rugged coastline and you often spot whales (in season) and dolphins going by. My visit unfortunately coincided with a cold front so it wasn't ideal weather to sit outside and enjoy the scenery.
While staying at Tsitsikamma Village Inn in Storms River I took two panoramic photos from the upstairs balcony of one of the cottages. One during the day and one in the evening.
Pipe, next to Pollok Beach, is probably the most popular surf spot in Port Elizabeth. It wasn't named because the there is a barrel that you can ride like a pipe (because there isn't), but because of a storm water pipe that runs into the sea right in front of the break. Pipe is probably PE's most consistent surf spot and you can be sure to always find a couple of okes out there on any given day.
Steve Biko is een van Suid Afrika se bekendste anti-apartheid aktiviste en is op 11 September 1977 oorlede nadat hy deur die polisie mishandel en aangerand is. Biko is naby Port Elizabeth gearresteer en in die Walmer Polisiestasie aangehou voor hy ondervra en aangerand is. Hy is agter in 'n voertuig gegooi en vervoer Pretoria toe waar hy oorlede is. Ek het onlangs die geleentheid gekry om die polisiesel te besoek waar hy in Walmer aangehou is en dink alhoewel dit…
Today is Halloween and as in the past I don't have a proper Halloween pic to post, specially seeing that its not really something we celebrate here in South Africa. So I prefer to rather post something weird or just slightly gross. This year its cows feet seen in New Brighton in Port Elizabeth at a informal corner butcher and take away.
After inspecting the flood damage under the Humewood Bridge I took a walk up Happy Valley to see what the stream looks like. The Shark River is still running strong but has settled back down to just about normal.
Port Elizabeth is experiencing its wettest non-flood year on record (the second wettest of all time only after the 1968 floods) and we've still got another two months to go till the end of the year. Looking at all the flooding we've had they can just as well declare this year a flood year as well, but that's not my call. With the huge rains we had a week or so ago even the docile Shark River that flows through Happy Valley came…
Die Witpoortjiewaterval is die fokuspunt van die Walter Sisulu- Botaniese Tuin in Johannesburg. Die tuin is 'n baie gewilde piekniekplek en besoekers hou gewoonlik hulle oë baie wyd oop om te sien of hulle dalk die broeipaar Verreaux arende wat langs die waterval nesmaak kan gewaar.
Daisies in the gardens on the Tsitsikamma Village Inn's village green
We attended the christening of the baby of friends of ours at the St Mark's Chapel in Framesby North this morning. St Marks Congregational Church is quite a big and popular church with christenings taking place in the chapel after the end of the church services and not in the church during the services.