Security at the Port Elizabeth Harbour gets very sticky when they see a camera which means that you don't often see pictures of things happening in there. But every now and then you get an excuse to take one in which gave me the opportunity to snap one of the Port Elizabeth Harbour tugs guiding a container ship into place next to the container terminal quay.
I don't know why but for some reason people don't really associate the old churches in Port Elizabeth with magnificent stained glass windows. Normally one would immediately think of the Cathedral and Commem in Grahamstown. But there are a number of places in Port Elizabeth with stunning stained glass windows notably the St Mary's Cathedral, St Augustine's Cathedral and the Public Library.
Vir die een of ander rede het ek vandat ek met RaakREIS begin het en bloginskrywings in Afrikaans doen, skielik baie van die ou Afrikaanse Volksliedjies begin onthou as ek na van my fotos kyk. Dis eintlik hartseer dat ons dit nie meer so baie sing soos wat ons gedoen het jare terug nie. Hierdie foto is geneem op die Tigerfalls wandelroete in die Koninklike Natalse Reservaat in die Drakensberge en het my dadelik laat dink aan die Wandellied. Wandellied As ek moeg word vir…
Don't you want to just cuddle up to this big furry mane and fall asleep with him? White Lions is quite a rare sight and the only Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape where you can see them in the wild is Pumba Game Reserve (which I hope I'll have the opportunity to visit some time soon). The second option to see them is the Seaview Game and Lion Park just outside Port Elizabeth where the park has a breeding…
With the fairly recent upgrade of the market square area in front of the Uitenhage town hall, the Anglo Boer War Memorial have been moved and is now positioned a bit more prominently. The monument was unveiled in 1904 and contains the names of Uitenhage citizens who died in the Anglo Boer War fought between 1899 and 1902. The interesting fact about the life-size soldier that forms part of the monument is that it was based on the likeness of an actual soldier…
I don't think a lot of people know that the South End Museum Heritage Trail exists. The trail starts at the South End Museum and can be done self-guided with the help of a guide book available from the museum or on a guided walk along with one of the museum's tourist guides. The trail takes in a some of the historic sites that are linked to old South End with the St Peter's Church ruins in my mind being the…
Daai dag in 1488 toe Bartolomeu Dias in 'n storm om die Kaap gevaar and kort daarna in wat vandag Mosselbaai is geland het, sou hy seker nooit kon raai dat op daardie selfde plek vandag 'n museum sou staan wat sy naam dra nie. Die Dias Museum kompleks het 'n fantastiese verskeindenheid van attraksies en sluit 'n skulpiesmuseum, die Munrohoekhuisies, die oorspronklike varswaterfontein waar Dias se matrose water geskep het om aan boort te neem en die Poskantoorboom in. Die Poskantoorboom is 'n…
The sour fig grows quite easy and being a succulent they can survive well even in dry conditions. This one I found on the coast on the Sacramento Trail outside Port Elizabeth.
One of the most prominent features in the South End Museum is a map of what South End in Port Elizabeth looked like before the Apartheid government demolished most of the buildings and subsequently also a lot of the streets in the area. The map shows street names as well as where a lot of the prominent buildings like schools, churches, hotels and shops.
Did you know that the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth is the only poison free stadium in the world? From the outset the stadium has worked hand in hand with the Urban Raptor Project to fight the potential problems of feral pigeons, crows, rats and insects in a natural way. Trained falcons have been brought in from time to time to chase and hunt the pigeons that try to move into the stadium. A while ago I attended a rugby…