A couple of weeks ago I got to hike the Bushbuck Trail in The Island Nature Reserve for the first time. What a beautiful trail and part of Port Elizabeth and well worth a morning or day's outing
Selfies is the "in" thing these days, specially while on holiday or doing activities. Its a way to remember places by talking a picture of yourself somewhere. In a world of social media its also a way of "look where I am and you're not". There seem to be two types of selfies though. The one is the obvious one of taking a picture of, well, yourself. As in your face. But there is also a growing tendency in taking…
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/uoYinU8CjRw&source=udsAs you know I like to post a video on a Friday and this week I found a Pasella clip on YouTube I Haven't posted on the blog yet. Can't believe I forgot about this one as I was involved behind the scenes in helping to organize it. The insert featured Port Elizabeth based Afrikaans singer Abel Kraamsaal. Pasella took Abel for a walk on the Sacramento Trail and the two guides that took them tell the viewers more about the shipwreck, Khoisan…
A short walk during lunch time along the Lower Baakens Valley on the Guinea Fowl Trail produced a guinea fowl feather floating on a little stream forming part of the Baakens River. A sign of wildlife and birds in the valley.
Looking for a tranquil spot with a bench to enjoy the view? I found this one close to the chapel in the Humble Ways private nature reserve on Lovemore Heights.
I took the KidZ on a Geocaching outing over the weekend to find a cache called Arc of the 30th Meridian. It's located close to a trig beacon in the Humble Ways private nature reserve on top of Lovemore Heights and is one of the oldest caches in Port Elizabeth. In the picture Chaos Boy is signing the logbook while Drama Princess strikes a pose. The trig beacon is one in a series of 26, which are the first set of historic…
The bell outside the Humble Ways Chapel. Humble Ways is a private nature reserve on Lovemore Heights and the perfect spot to go for a short walk to get away from it all yet still being less than a kilometers from civilisation.
My three favorite flowers in the wild are aloes, proteas and arum lilies. The aloes are in full bloom at the moment and gives colour to the winter landscape. A hike along the Aloe Trail at Bluewater Bay took as to this spot from where we could see Amsterdamhoek and the Swartkops River mouth with flowering aloes in the foreground.
Its amazing how different from each other one's own children can be. Drama Princess is the sporty outdoorsy type while Chaos Boy is happy to sit and watch tv or play in his room. The other day when I announced that I was meeting Shefetswe and Sanhain at the Aloe Trail for a quick 6km hike and a couple of Geocaches, Drama Princess quickly got ready to go with while Chaos Boy just blew us off and went back to…
Last weekend a couple of us went for a late afternoon walk along the Aloe Trail at Bluewater Bay to find the Geocaches placed on the trail. I make sure I always have my camera at hand and I snapped Drama Princess enjoying the view towards the Swartkops River without her knowing.