The road through Cogmans Kloof
The view of the road through Cogmans Kloof outside Montagu from on top of the tunnel
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04/03/2013
Freeway graffiti
This rather angry looking, Mickey Mouse dress-a-like (and going by the description is also famously dead) character sits on the side of the Settles Freeway close to its end in South End. I've Googled and surfed the net a bit but couldn't find anything remotely related to him so I have no idea who or what he is.
23/11/2012
Damage on the Dip
During the recent flooding Port Elizabeth endured the road at the 3rd Avenue Dip was damaged which led to its closure. This in turn led to major traffic disruptions on the William Moffet Expressway, specially during morning traffic. The Damselfly uses the Dip to get to both her work and the Kidz's school and her regular 20 minute drive took her over an hour with the road closure. On Sunday I took a walk down to the low water bridge to have a look at the damage. From…
07/11/2012
Elands River Road
The Elands River Road links the Rocklands area with the Gamtoos Valley just outside Patensie. The majority of the road is a gravel road but the route it follows through the Elands River Valley is very beautiful and well worth making a day or weekend trip out of, staying over in either of the two areas.
15/10/2012
Unfinished freeway
The freeway off ramp on Settlers Freeway which goes nowhere. In yesterday's post on the Green Mosque I mentioned that the mosque was due to be demolished according to the Groups Areas Act and that they wanted a freeway off ramp to run across the land. This is how close they got to doing it.
11/10/2012
Flooding on Seaview Road
Whenever we have excessive rain in Port Elizabeth the 3rd Avenue Dip is the first road that gets closed. When Port Elizabeth has manor flooding, like we've had twice in the last three weeks, one of the roads that get the worst effected is the Seaview Road at the Deer Park turnoff. There is no river that runs through there, but the runoff from the surrounding hills dam up at the bottom and over the last 6 years have caused major flooding on at…
30/07/2012
Two wheel track
The back seats on an open game viewing vehicle may be the most bumpy but it also offers the best view not just of animals but the surrounding countryside. In this case while my fellow game viewers were watching a couple of zebra I was hanging out the back trying to get a nice picture of the two wheel track behind us.
09/07/2012
Somerset West ghost hill
When I was in primary school we went on a school tour to Cape Town and one of the places we visited was the ghost hill in Somerset West. I remember how the teacher parked the school bus on the hill, switched it off and let go of the hand brake, making the bus free wheel... UP the hill. I've always wanted to return and on a recent trip to Somerset West I made some enquiries and headed up to…
15/06/2012
Chapman’s Peak Drive
Chapman's Peak Drive as seen from Noordhoek Beach.Spending 9 days in the Cape during the Summer holidays I had the opportunity to drive along Champan's Peak Drive on two occasions and just realised again why it is seen as one of the most scenic coastal drives in the world. Chapman's Peak Drive winds its was along the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula between Noordhoek (where we stayed) and Hout Bay. The drive is 9km long with 114 curves and…
17/04/2012
Evening beachfront traffic
Traffic along Marine Drive on the Port Elizabeth beachfront just after sundown
02/03/2012