Last week the skies above Port Elizabeth gave a stunning display of Crepuscular rays. Yes, that's the proper name for it. Usually you only get to see it for a couple of seconds or maybe even minutes, but on this day if just continued to be visible for large parts of the day. I found that there are many different names for it so doesn't matter if you call it Sunbeams, Sunburst, Sun rays, Ropes of Maui, Jacob's Ladder, Stairways to Heaven,…
"Are you joining us for lunch of liver and stew in the township ?" That was the question one of my colleagues asked me the other day. Now I can be a bit of a picky eater and there are a couple of things I won't touch. So I thought about it... for about two seconds... and agreed. And to be very honest, I haven't been sorry I did. There we were, a Xhosa, two Afrikaners and a Coloured, four South Africans…
One of the stops we did with the St Dominic's Priory kids on their city tour last week was at Fort Frederick, the oldest building in Port Elizabeth. It was great to see that the fort seemed to have been cleaned up recently. Lets hope it stays that way.
When we went to Montagu at the end of last year the first thing people asked was if we were going to go to the hot water springs. The hot water springs at Avalon Springs is probably the best known attraction in Montagu and it gets thousands of visitors every year. We weren't particularly planning to but decided to check it out. The pools at complex are fed by a 43ºC thermal spring originating roughly 2km's under ground and pumped to the…
In my line of work I have taken tourists, tour operators, photographers and media from all over the world around this beautiful city I call home. This past week I got to do a different kind of group. A group of grade 6 schoolkids from St Dominic Priory in the city. At first I didn't really know what to expect and was slightly hesitant but as I was asked by a very good friend I decided to give it a…
Overheard at the SAMREC facility in Cape Recife, "Hey Bro, do you think its safe to dive in here?"
Die son gaan onder oor die Klein Karoo. Dis die einde van 'n snikhete somersdag en die horison is besig om te verkleur. Blou raak goud raak donkerder. Daar is nie 'n briese wat trek nie met die enigste beweging 'n volstruis wat teen 'n draadheining afloop.
The St Croix Motor Museum is THE place to visit if you are into vintage and classic cars. I'm not the type of guy who goes gaga over cars and even I was hugely impressed when I walked in there. But the museum has more than just the actual cars. The back wall is filled with old hubcaps, steering wheels, car product containers along with badges and logos.
The patterns on a giraffe must be amongst the most interesting in the animal kingdom. They're not just spots, they're more like carefully laid slate stones.
If somebody had to give me a choice of holiday between Beach or Bush I would probably choose Bush 8 out of 10 times. Perhaps its because I live on the coast and is used to the sea, but I just love being in the bush and going on game drives. The game drive I was on in the picture was at Lalibela Game Reserve about an hour outside Port Elizabeth.