Wasn’t Me

 A couple of guys fishing on the Sundays River.  Cool name for the boat specially if its used to escape the wives for a day of beers and fishing. 

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Fishing on the Sundays

Fishing is a very popular pass time for a lot of people.  A way to relax and be one one nature. Me? I'm no fisherman.  I just don't have the patience. Sitting there waiting for something that may or may not happen.  Perhaps for ten minutes or so, but anything longer, "Bha humbug".  Cruising along the Sundays River on the Sundays River Ferry recently we passed a couple fishing from a little motor boat.  As we pulled up next to them the…

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Fisherman and stadium

A fisherman fishing off the rocks between Hobie Beach and Pollok Beach.  In the background one of the Port Elizabeth Harbour is visible with the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium beyond.

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Ships ahoy

Whenever there's a storm brewing the fishing boats catching fish and chokka out in and just outside Algoa Bay sails into the bay to find shelter and ride it out. The other day I got the perfect scene with a yacht sailing past a number of fishing boats and a couple of big ships in the background waiting to enter the Port Elizabeth Harbour. The gantry cranes right in the back are at the Coega Harbour on the other side…

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Fishing boats

The Port Elizabeth Harbour is used by commercial boats, fishing boats and recreational boats (yachts). People normally associate fishing with the small harbours along the South Western Cape and West Coast, so PE doesn't get seen as much of a fishing harbour. But that is where they are wrong. It does have a huge number of fishing boats that are based here and that offload their catch at the fishing facilities. Most of the catch gets processed here so you…

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Tuna Classic

Late last week the annual Algoa Bay Tuna Classic took place from the Port Elizabeth Deep Sea Angling Club in the PE Harbour. The winning catch in this year's competition was a 83kg yellow fin tuna caught 26 miles from the harbour by local fisherman Ruvaan Palm and his team on board the Seriola. In the picture is Brian Webb from the boat Tempissed with a 119.5kg marlin caught on the same day as the winning yellow fin tuna.

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Yachts and fishing boats

The other day I had to go and meet somebody at the Algoa Bay Yacht Club which gave me an excuse to take a walk down the walkway between the moorings. This gave me the opportunity to get a couple of pics around the area which I will post from time to time. This is a view between the yachts towards some of the fishing boats that use the Port Elizabeth harbour.

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Heading home

A couple of fishermen on a rubberduck heading upstream along the Sundays River at Colchester after a day of fishing close to the mouth of the river. I wonder if they got anything? This pic was taken on a trip out with The Sundays River Ferry Company and The Maggie May House Boat.

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Fishermen rock

We took a drive down to the beachfront this afternoon to get out the house a bit. We stopped on Lovers Lane and sat on a bench overlooking the sea having a picnic while the kids were running up and down on the sand. There wasn't a lot of people down on the beach as it wasn't really a warm day, but we could see a couple of fishermen on the rocks at Pollock Beach by the old Something Good…

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