Gamtoos Series 3 – Dusk in the Gamtoos Valley
Dusk in the Gamtoos Valley with the Cockscomb Mountains in the background photographed from the stoep at Nikalandershoek Guest Cottage just outside Patensie. PURE BLISS
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07/05/2014
Gamtoos Series 2 – water canals
This is post #2 in the Gamtoos series featuring the Gamtoos River Valley west of Port Elizabeth. The valley is referred to as the food basket of the Eastern Cape due to the amount of fruit and vegetables being grown here. These farms all get their water from the Kouga Dam. Water is taken from the Kouga Dam to the Loerie Dam (on its way to consumers in Port Elizabeth) via a main canal while irrigation water for the farms in…
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06/05/2014
Gamtoos Series 1 – Kouga Dam
I'm going through a very busy period at work having just come back from World Travel Market Africa in Cape Town and off to Durban for Indaba in a couple of days. Because of it I'm running low on photos and rather than skipping days I decided to keep the daily photo concept going and recycle some pictures from The Firefly Photo Files over to PE Daily Photo. So lets go on a little PE Daily Photo holiday and discover the nearby Gamtoos…
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05/05/2014
The old Gamtoos Bridge
Today's post is slightly outside the borders of Nelson Mandela Bay, but the Gamtoos area is very much part of the metro even if its only through close association. When the first Dutch trekboers got to the Gamtoos River in the latter part of the 1700's, they had to move upstream to find a suitable spot to cross the river. Later a pontoon was used roughly where the Gamtoos Ferry Hotel is today. There was a call for a causeway to…
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10/04/2014