On a nice sunny day one of the best places to have lunch or just a coffee or a drink is one of the outside seating areas belonging to the restaurants at the Boardwalk. Its normally quite difficult getting an outside seat overlooking the Boardwalk lake at a place like Dulcé. Suddenly I wish I was sitting there and not here in front of my computer.
One of the activities at the Boardwalk for kids (and sometimes big kids as well) is bumper boats on a separate section of the Boardwalk lake. The Rugrats went to a birthday party at the Boardwalk the other day and one of the things they did was the bumper boats. Chaos Boy is a bit scared of water and Drama Princess is still too young to go alone, so I went along with them. The boats have little water canons…
The Boardwalk has a range of entertainment options for the littlies. Everything from merry go rounds to putt putt and go carts. Obviously if you have two Rugrats like us it can be a bit heavy on the wallet for an evening of fun. But lots of people leave their wallets at home, park their car at the Boardwalk's parking and take a nice slow walk through the centre on their way to the beach..GPS: 33°59'1.96"S, 25°39'27.55"E
One of the new features at the Boardwalk complex this summer are the floating balls. You get into the deflated ball which gets inflated and velcro'd closed before being pushed onto the lake. It doesn't look like the easiest thing judging on the fact that the kids doing it were more flat on their backs than on their feet. It did look like lots of fun though.
The lights of the Boardwalk Casino and Entertainment Complex reflecting on the Boardwalk lake. The Boardwalk is very much in the centre of most of Port Elizabeth's summer entertainment with lots of activities going on inside the complex as well as at Hobie Beach across the road.
One of the horses on the Merry-Go-Round at the Boardwalk
The lights along the Port Elizabeth beachfront as seen from Shark Rock Pier looking towards Humewood (left), Kings Beach (middle) and the harbour (the bright lights on the right).
The fountain at the entrance to the casino in the Boardwalk complex has a feature with a mermaid and two dolphins in it. Right from the start people started to throw money into the fountain and every now and then the fountain gets cleaned out and the money donated to a charity. The casino licence is currently up for renewal and except for the Boardwalk there is one other casino licence bidder. It will be quite interesting to see what…
The one section at the Boardwalk Casino and Entertainment Complex is a wonderland of excitement for kids. The have everything from a game centre to adventure golf and bumper boats, not to forget the good ol' Merry Go Round.