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Beach Aquatic Safety Zones

The Port Elizabeth beachfront isn't just utilised by bathers and swimmers.  Port Elizabeth and Algoa Bay isn't called the Watersports Capital of Africa for nothing.  To ensure everybody's safety the main beachfront, or Southern Beaches, have been divided into Beach Aquatic Safety Zones allowing for specific areas for bathers, paddlers, motorised water craft, surfers, kite surfers, SUP's, snorkeling, surfing, kite surfing and even fishing.  

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27/01/2016
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We have quiet beaches again

After a busy holiday season, life in Port Elizabeth has returned to normal.  I popped out to the beach during lunchtime one day this week and just enjoyed the wonderful beach we have between Hobie and Pollok, sharing it with only one or two others.  

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23/01/2016
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New Year at Kini Bay

New Year's Day is known as the one day in the year when people flock to the beaches in their hundreds  thousands millions to wash off the dust from the past year and celebrate the arrival of the new one.  A few years ago we discovered that the gully in Kini Bay gets bypassed by most and it has now  become a tradition for us to go and spend our day swimming and snorkeling here.  This year was no different…

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05/01/2016
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Denville Beach in the late afternoon

Looking towards Denville Beach and the McArthur Pool Complex in the late afternoon standing on the little surf wall I posted about a few days ago.

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02/12/2015
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Beachview coastline

A little detour via Beachview on the way back from Jbay today had me driving along the road from Maitland to Seaview for the first time in ages.  Strange how often I used to get out there and how seldom I do these days.  Just had to stop and get a picture of the road along the coast.  Between this stretch and Marine Drive from Schoenies to the beachfront we sure have a few notably scenic coastal drives around the…

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24/11/2015
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Flat rocks at Flat Rocks

Flat Rocks is the area between Pollok Beach and Cape REcife where the rocks stretch out to see at low tide.  The rocks are very accessible and very popular with fishermen.  The younger crowd in PE wouldn't know that the spot where the Flat Rocks parking area is now (across from the Humewood Golf Course entrance) used to be where the Palm Beach (Flat Rocks) Roadhouse was located.

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24/10/2015
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Noordhoek coastal view

A drive through the Cape Recife Nature Reserve brought me to the Patti Beach parking area.  This is the view from the beach along the coastline looking towards Noordhoek. 

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19/10/2015
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Beach activities – Summer is coming

Spring is here and Summer is a coming so we are slowly starting to see beautiful warm days sneaking in between the colder weather.  Taking the dogs for a walk on the beachfront on such a day it was great to see many others making use of the weather.  Not a lot of people are swimming yet but kids and playing in the water, dogs are being walked (so are loved ones), people are starting to work on their tans,…

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27/09/2015
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Port Elizabeth beaches video

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGEzBiubR6g&w=500&h=400]I was digging around for a video to post for this week's Video Friday and found this short about Port Elizabeth's beaches on Rooms for Africa dating back to 2010.  It will be hard to disagree with anybody saying that we really have magnificent beaches here in PE.

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11/09/2015