Over the last week or so we've had a number of stunning sunsets here in Port Elizabeth. Unfortunately I was just never in a position to get a photo, but that was until last night. I spotted the sky changing colour through the lounge window, grabbed my camera and ran out into the street. And presto, here it is straight out the camera with no adjustments made.
I was very disappointed the day I saw that the municipality started to allow officials to use Market Square as a parking lot. Tourists wanting to have a look around have to dodge cars and when you want to take a nice picture there is always a vehicle in the way. Plus I don't think the paving put down on Market Square was done with a view that it would be come a parking lot so I'm sure at some stage…
Towards the end of the recent school holidays I took the Kidz and their friends for an outing around Port Elizabeth. Being a warm winters day I decided to end off the trip at St Georges Park and let the kids play in the park for a while. While watching them go round and round and round I decided to try and get a picture of the kids on the merry-go-round (at a lack of a better word for it) with a moving…
The VW AutoPavilion in Uitenhage has a very impressive collection of vehicles and memorabilia connected to Volkswagen and every boy (young or old) who is interested in cars should visit the museum at least once. Part of the collection are a number of Beetles. 288 353 Beetles were manufactured at the Uitenhage plant between 1951 and 1979 with the rusty red coloured one on the left being the very last to come off the production line. It has only 200 kilometers on the…
As ek mag wil ek graag die lirieke van Groot Voël Paradys deur Jacques de Coning aanhaal om saam met hierdie foto te gaan.Oudtshoorn is 'n grootvoël paradys,los jou budgy by die huis en ek sal jou 'n groot voël wys.Oudtshoorn is 'n grootvoël paradys,Los jou mossie by die bossie en kom speel met my volstruis. Kom sit hier op my skoot dan vertel ek vir jou,van die grootste voël wat ek gesien het my vrou.Dit was daar by die Klein Karoo Kunstefees,as…
One of the first projects done by the Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA) was the upgrade of Govan Mbeki Road (Main Street) and surrounds between Russel Road and the City Hall. Down one of the side roads you will this little enclosed structure (one of about two or three in the area) with a sticker of a man having a relieving himself. Yes, it is, as they referred to it, a pissoir. The reason for these toilets to be put up were…
Going on a game drive at Lalibela Game Reserve outside Port Elizabeth recently we were lucky to have quite a few very good sightings of rhino, giraffe and lion on the afternoon game drive. Unfortunately even though the ranger knew where the elephants were we just couldn't catch sight of them. As the sun disappeared in the west followed by the full moon rising in the east the elephants suddenly appeared out of the thick valley they were feeding. The light was just…
I took a couple of my colleagues on a walk around the South End Museum Heritage Trail with stops at some of the main heritage sites along the trail. After looking around the St Peter's Church ruins this was the view as we were heading down the street towards Walmer Boulevard. I kinda wish I lived this close to the beachfront.
Almal wat al langs 'n Suid-Afrikaanse strand gestap het moes die een of ander tyd êrens 'n seepampoentjie opgetel het. Ek weet 'n seepampoentjie is 'n "sea urchin" in Engels, maar het nog altyd gewonder of dit dalk 'n ander naam in Afrikaans het wanneer dit nog leef. Die eerste een wat ek besluit om te vra was my goeie vriend Google. Hy laat my selde in die steek en hierdie geleendheid was nie anders nie. Penny Nyren se boek Ontdek Stande was bo-aan die…