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Orcas off Port Elizabeth with Expert Tours

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2cnvy1qMu8&w=500&h=400]Usually this time of the year the sardines start to gather off the Port Elizabeth coastline before they start their run up the east coast.  It gives divers and film crews the ideal opportunity to observe the bait balls along with all the dolphin, whale, shark and bird activity that accompanies it.  Expert Tours based here in Port Elizabeth does a number of tours out to see this phenomenon and a week or two ago they had the most amazing…

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24/03/2017
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Then and Now – North End coastline

North End Beach back in the days.  A stretch of sand all the way to the Swartkops River which could possible have become one of Port Elizabeth's prime beachfront real estate areas if it didn't fall in the hands of Railways and municipality.  This pictures dates back to 1902 right after the Grate Gale when 21 ships ran aground along North End Beach.Today North End Beach is no more.  The beach and coastline was reclaimed, railway tracks, Settlers Freeway (M4)…

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09/11/2016
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Port Elizabeth / Nelson Mandela Bay – An African Wildlife Hotspot

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRkfQuaVq7M&w=500&h=400]Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism has a brand new destination marketing video promoting the fact that Port Elizabeth with Algoa Bay and all it's adjacent game reserve truly is an African Wildlife Hotspot.  At a recent tourism conference I attended, a representative of Kruger Lowveld Tourism in Mpumalanga implied during one of the panel discussions that the Eastern Cape doesn't offer visitors an authentic wildlife experience.  So let's see what Nelson Mandela Bay and surrounds have to offer.   Algoa Bay with…

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19/08/2016
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Dolphin watching in Algoa Bay

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plhAc7DcLhQ&w=500&h=400]Port Elizabeth and Algoa Bay was recently branded as the Bottlenose Dolphin Capital of the World because of the fact that the area is home to probably the biggest population of Bottlenose Dolphins in the world.  Join Lloyd Edwards and the team of Raggy Charters on a virtual cruise of Algoa Bay out to St Croix Island and along the beachfront to view the dolphins on this video and perhaps you may just decided to do it in real life…

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24/06/2016
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Splish splash over Bird Rock

Last week we had some big swells around.  So big that a cruise ship had to dock in PE for a while due to a bit of damage it picked up after swellsflooded one of its decks.  Driving along Marine Drive I always look towards Bird Rock.  Probably because I have a Geocache located on it and it just draws my eye.  It was low tide but the swell washing against the back of the rock was washing over it.…

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09/05/2016
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Port Elizabeth is the Bottlenose Dolphin Capital of the World

Last night I attended the launch of Port Elizabeth and Algoa Bay as the Bottlenose Dolphin Capital of the World at the Algoa Bay Yacht Club.  The initiative was the brainchild of Lloyd Edwards of Raggy Charters and isn't sommer maar so.  It's not like Lloyd just got up one morning and decided that he wants a new gimmick to promote the city and Algoa Bay with.  The tag comes with some hard facts.  Algoa Bay and the coastline around…

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19/04/2016
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Paddling on the PE beachfront

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGP32pagw8&w=500&h=400]Port Elizabeth offers so many water sport and activity opportunities.  We really are super fortunate to live on Algoa Bay with everything it offers.  Check out this YouTube video of MyLifeInTransit and his dad going paddling along the Port Elizabeth beachfront.  Along the way they came across a pod of dolphins which can only be described as a magical experience.

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05/02/2016
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Diving with Raggies in Algoa Bay

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUMfH7Y8qCA]Port Elizabeth offers excellent diving options both inside Algoa Bay as well as on the Wildside.  Although I haven't gone scuba diving for years, I really enjoyed it when I did.  When I first did a sea dive I really worried about encountering a shark.  But that was until I actually encountered one.  We were on one of the training dives inside Algoa Bay off Cape Recife somewhere when I spotted something biggish in the gully below us.  The dive…

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08/01/2016
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Cape Recife beacon

The beacon out at Cape Recife is one of two beacons that was used for shipping purposes before the invention of modern navigation technology.  The second beacon is the one on Marine Drive where Admiralty Road and Marine Drive comes together.  Ships sailing along the coast from the west had to line up the two beacons before they could turn into Algoa Bay.  This ensured that they were well clear of Thunderbolt Reef at the point as well as the…

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27/10/2015
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Diving at Bellbuoy Reef with Pro Dive

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYV-xCHBAq4&w=500&h=400]Port Elizabeth truly has some outstanding dive sites both inside Algoa Bay as well as on the Wildside.  So what can one expect from a dive in PE? Colourful soft coral, lots of fish species, shark sightings, ship wrecks and so much more.  I found this video on the Pro Dive YouTube channel of a diving excursion out to Bellbuoy Reef in Algoa Bay.  Makes me want to dust off the ol' wetsuit and book a dive.  

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12/06/2015