I am always amazed when I see flowers right on the coast like these at Schoenies. I know they are hardy but how they survive growing in sand and bad soil and getting battered by the salty sea winds all the time and still flower like this is above me.
A group of people setting off on the very popular Sacramento Tail between Schoenmakerskop and Sardinia Bay during the late afternoon.
While walking in the Sardinia Bay Nature Reserve last weekend I realised that you don't need to travel to the West Coast to see flowers. We also have a huge variety of wild flowers in bloom during spring. We may not have the quantity but we definitely have the variety and the beauty.
It's been a few years since I've been down to the remains of the Oceanos lifeboat at Schoenies, so last Sunday I decided to head on over and take a walk down for a change again. 4 August 1991 was a dramatic and fateful day on the Eastern Cape coastline with the sinking of the MTS Oceanos on the Wild Coast close to Coffee Bay, east of East London. After all 571 passengers on board were rescued, some of the…
One of the things that Port Elizabeth and Nelson Mandela Bay is very proud of and which gets promoted by Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism often is that the metro has 40 kilometers of beautiful white sandy beaches ideal for swimming, long walks and building sand castles. But what is in between because the metro has about an eighty kilometer stretch of coastline from Van Stadens River mouth to Sundays River Mouth when you exclude the area covered in dolosse between…
The perfect spot to enjoy the view of the beautiful coastline at Schoenmakerskop from
Yesterday we took a drive around Marine Drive to Schoenmakerskop and after a walk to the Oceanos lifeboat ended up having a picnic with this stunning view. Just another reason I love this beautiful city we live in.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CZRcQfR3DA&w=500&h=400]After seeing all the reaction on the video about snorkeling around the Humewood slipway I shared two weeks ago I went looking for another snorkeling video to share with you. I came across this amazing video by Brad Taylor. Brad went snorkeling at Schoenies with his brother and dad and they were joined by this very curious otter. Wow, what an experience that must have been.
Today is World Wide Flash Mob XII. It's a Geocaching event started twelve years ago with the purpose of being a short gathering of Geocachers, lasting 30 minutes before everybody heads off again. Very much a flash mob. This year the Port Elizabeth Geocachers gathered at the Sacramento cannon in Schoenmakerskop and the theme chosen for our flash mob was bubbles and balloons. At exactly 12:15 we took our group photo as required and started blowing our bubbles. Quite a few…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CZRcQfR3DA&w=500&h=400]I found this video on YouTube posted in 2013 by Brad Taylor of him and his dad snorkeling in a gully in Schoenmakerskop. To their surprise they were joined by an otter. Now there's something that doesn't happen every day.