A cold front swept through the Eastern Cape yesterday dumping some pretty extreme weather on the way. I must say, in all my years here, I don't ever remember it being so dark during the day that the street lights came back on!(More pix on Arty Fartying Around, and a bit of a political rant too!)
A whale skeleton at the Bayworld Museum. This used to be one of my favourite places to visit, and take our kids, as well as visiting neices and nephews. Unfortunately their shortsighted pricing policy now makes it a less attractive idea, and I know of lots of would-be visitors who no longer go there as a result. We went there recently to introduce our 4 year old grandson to the delights to be found there, but were told we had…
See what happens when you are sitting in the car, waiting for someone, and getting bored? This is a view of the parking area at Fiveways Spar, reflected in the doors of one of the satellite stores, through the glass balcony panel!
The roof trusses for the new soccer stadium being assembled on site. They will be lifted into place with the huge crane featured in yesterday's post.
A visit to the site of the new 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium shows that great progress is being made to get it completed before the event. The giant crane to the left will be used to lift the massive roof trusses in place.I am sure that many a good soccer game will be played here.
The Hill Presbytarian Church, as seen from the Donkin Reserve, is one of the iconic symbols of Port Elizabeth. It features in many pictures of the city that have been taken from below the hill or from the sea, from the 19th century to current times.
In response to yesterday's post, we received an e-mail from our recent guest photographer, Louise Eksteen. She wrote "Hi, Sue and Max! I felt so good when I saw your picture of the Donkin tonight – we DO seem to like the same things!" (Last time we saw them, we were the only 4 people at the promenade, mad enough to be braving a freezing gale to get shots of the wild spring tide!)They also tried to board Sagres, but…
While we were visiting the beautiful ship Sagres, this unusual view of the Donkin Lighthouse presented itself, seen at sunset through an old metal warehouse structure.
Along with many other locals, we visited the beautiful tall ship Sagres at the harbour over the weekend. To see a whole bunch of pix of her, from all angles, go to sue's blog.
.... the road.One thing we love about PE is the variety. I mean within a week, you can drive down Target Kloof and see wild dassies grazing happily at the side of the road, oblivious to the cars whizzing by. Then you can go on a neighbourhood watch patrol in Central and see a drug deal going down. (OK, variety means it's not all good!) In Parliament street you see all sorts of chaos, but it is good chaos because…