I love getting emails from followers of PE Daily Photo and The Firefly Photo Files, but it gets even better when I get mails like the one sent to me by Socratis "Socks" who was the last owner of the Palm Beach Roadhouse at Flat Rocks. He has sent me some pictures of the roadhouse to post and said he's got a couple of old newspaper clippings that he will scan and send me some time as well. Ahhhhh, the good ol' days…
Ironman is probably the biggest event staged in Port Elizabeth and right up there to what the Argus cycle race is to Cape Town and the Comrades Marathon to Durban. But Ironman isn't just one day of ordinary sports men and women doing extra ordinary things, its a whole weekend of awesomeness and this past weekend was Ironman weekend. It all starts in the week before the event with the arrival of athletes and there families, the Ironman expo and…
A panorama view of the Port Elizabeth beachfront seen from the Jester while cruising Algoa Bay
Port Elizabeth sometimes has the tendency to produce four seasons in one day. A week ago we had a nice hot autumn day that makes one think that we're still in the midst of summer. During the afternoon the Damselfly and I went on a cruise in Algoa Bay on the Jester and suddenly the weather changed. Mist and clouds started rolling in from the west without warning and as we cruised back into the harbor the drops started falling. This…
I don't get to go on the sea that often so cruising along the beachfront on The Jester gives one the opportunity to experience a different view of the beautiful Port Elizabeth beachfront. And it really is beautiful. One of the things that does come across as a little weird though is watching people swimming on the beach side and not with the ocean behind them like one usually see.
I was having a look at this picture wondering what I should post with it. Straight forward it shows the lake which is part of the Kings Beach redevelopment with The Beaches apartment building in the background. But does that make it the beach lake at the Beaches or the Beaches at the beach with a lake or the lake at the Beaches on the beach?
I took a late afternoon walk around the Kings Beach area a couple of weekends ago and just realized again how the development has enhanced the beachfront. The small lake really is a great addition to the area even though a lot of people are moaning about it, but it seems that some folk would always nitpick and look for something to complain about. The lake however is having a couple of problems but the Mandela Bay Development Agency who is…
Summer fun at the Splash Waterworld super tube at Kings Beach
Geocaching is fun with most caches hidden somewhere fairly easily eccessible. For a while now I've been eyeing Bird Rock on the beachfront thinking it could be a great site for an "extreme" terrain 5 cache and the other day I took a swim out there with fellow cachers Seekoei and erenei to place one with only three cachers swimming out there since to log it. Bird Rock is situated between Hobie Beach and Pollok Beach and is always surrounded…
The Super Tube at Kings Beach has become one of the Port Elizabeth beachfront landmarks a long time ago and is still as popular as possible. Drama Princess turned nine last week and yesterday (Saturday) we had her birthday party at the Super Tube. It's even more fun as I remember and things have changed a little bit with extra slides being added since I was a kid. When I say kid I mean kid in age cause yesterday I…