A couple of months ago on a road trip to Johannesburg I detoured through the town of Kroonstad in the Northern Free State to stretch my legs and... well... you know... find a geocache or two. One of the caches I was after is located at a holiday resort called Jukskei Park and on arrival I found cars parked everywhere. The resort plays host to the South African Jukskei Championships every year and I picked the week of the tournament…
A little Geocaching detour allowed me to take notice of something I have passed many times before. Have you ever driven down Conynham Road in Parsons Hill and noticed the abandoned tennis courts on the right next to St Peter's Greek Orthodox Church. I've noticed them but I've never taken notice till this week. I wonder why the courts wasn't used anymore which led to it falling to ruin like this.
This is a scene that played itself off over and over at Saturday's Ironkids event. Fathers doing the run leg along with their kids (often with mothers a few steps behind). But if it only was as easy as it sounds. Most of us huffed and puffed along carrying bags and cameras, taking photos, encouraging the kids to keep going and sidestepping other parents and the general public along the way. Not quite as easy (or dignified) as it sounds.…
One of the main reasons we wanted to go down and support the runners along Beach Road during Ironman was to cheer on four of our friends taking part. We parked our camp chairs in front of the McArthur pool complex and settled in for the evening. Our friend B had a tough time on the second loop of the bike so she was slightly behind the others but we decided to stick it out till she passed us the last…
After we spent most of the day on Sunday supporting the Ironman cyclists we headed down to the beachfront after dinner to spent some time supporting those same Ironmen and women on their running leg. Loved Die Burger's poster that said "Moenie omkyk nie" (Don't look back). I don't think I saw anybody look back. I think they are just too tired to care what is happening behind them.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwzYy__-MDU&w=500&h=400]I'm not a skateboarder. Fell way too hard off my skateboard trying it out as a kid. Drama Princess loves to Jboard though. But that's beyond the point. Anyhow, I was looking for a video to post for this week's Video Friday post and found this one on the King's Beach Skateboarding YouTube channel. Although it's one of their older videos it shows the guys leaving the skate-park behind and hitting the streets a bit, showing off some of Port Elizabeth's…
It is summer and schools have started so it means that it is athletics time. Over the last week and a half I attended both KidZ' inter house athletics meets. First it was Chaos Boy who is in DF Malherbe High School and had their inter house day at the NMMU track. A week later Drama Princess, who is at Newton Park Primary School, had theirs at the Oval in Richmond Hill. A day like this brings back lots of memories…
We had to go and do a little shopping at Baywest Mall this morning and as always stopped to watch the skaters on the ice rink. I tried to think how long it's been since the one at the old Tramways building closed down. 20 odd years? The folk of PE had to wait a long time to glide over the ice again and looking at how good some of the skaters are I imagine a few of them are…
No exploration expedition has ever ended in failure. Well perhaps some have. One or two may have run out of water trying to find a way out the desert, the odd expedition may have lost boat and crew on uncharted seas and at least one was never seen again after getting lost in the Amazon. Detouring from Port Elizabeth via Grahamstown onto the R350 to Bedford, I wasn't really expecting to see much en route other than passing over the…
This morning the annual Algoa FM Big Walk for Cancer took place from the Boardwalk. We joined over 10 000 other walkers, most of them in pink, in support of those who are busy fighting cancer, those who are cancer survivors and those who have lost the battle to cancer. Just about everybody there are family or friends of one of the above so it truly is a very special day. It took us a good 20 plus minutes just…