Standing at McArthur pool on Saturday during Ironkids I tried out the zoom lens on my new camera watched some activity on Kings Beach. I was amazed at all the different things happening. People swimming, a couple of kite boarders, two guys on SUPs, body boarders, knee board paddlers, kids building sand castles, people having a tan and a few folk just going for a walk. All of that with lots of sail boats out in the bay. Truly a…
After spending 5 hours next to the road supporting the Ironman competitors on the cycle leg and popping home to do a couple of things like mow the lawn, we headed down to the beachfront after sunset to cheer on the runners. My mouth just hangs open year after year watching people who have already swum 3,8 km and cycled 180 km still run 42,2 km as if its just a jog around the block. You can see some of…
It's Ironman weekend in Port Elizabeth and the vibe in town around this iconic event is absolutely mind blowing. In addition to the main event on Sunday, there are also two events taking place on Saturday. First off was the Corporate Challenge followed by Ironkids in the afternoon. Drama Princess entered Ironkids after missing last year and this year had to do the slightly longer 100 meter swim and 2 km run as she just turned ten and thus moved…
Have you ever walked along Kings Beach all the way to the harbour wall? Not? Then I bet you have never seen Kings Beach from this angle. A little while ago I did just that and sneaked onto the harbour wall for a bit till a security guard looked at us funny. So we turned around and I snapped this pic of Kings Beach as we were heading back to the beach.
Port Elizabeth may not be Jeffreys Bay when it comes to being famous for surfing, but we do have a couple of half decent surf spots. Pipe next to Pollok Beach are one of those and I snapped these two surfers heading into the waves there a little while ago.
Port Elizabeth has 40 kilometers of sandy beaches and that isn't counting the rocky shoreline in-between. Our main beachfront is our pride and joy with beaches like Kings Beach, Humewood, Hobie and Pollok Beach attracting thousands of visitors every week. And that's just the locals. I wonder how many people remember what Hobie Beach looked like before Shark Rock Pier was built in the 90's. A rocky little beach famous for the fact that many people launched their hobie cats…
This year our December summer holiday was supposed to be a mountain vacation and we were due to leave for four days in Matatiele on Tuesday before heading into the Southern Drakensberg for another 10 days there after. We had a very unexpected and sudden hiccup crop up this week and the Damselfly has to head into hospital for surgery. It means that we will be spending our vacation at home while she recuperates and I'm sure the beach will see the KidZ…
Drama Princess doing the "Instagram pose" on the beachfront during the Instawalk a couple of weeks ago. I really like the reflection in the pond along the Kings Beach promenade and she makes the perfect subject. Not that she needs any excuse to pose for a photograph.
The other day I asked the question, "How many of us still take our kids to explore rock pools around the Port Elizabeth coastline?" Well, if you do you will encounter a lot of mussels on the rocks at low tide. When I took the photo I had this grand idea to give you a lesson on our mussels and how many one is allowed to pick. That was until I realized how many types of mussels there are. And…
One of the features as part of the Kings Beach Park development is a beach chair selfie frame which Drama Princess just had to try out while on last weekend's Instawalk in the area.