One of the things I enjoy most about Geocaching is the fact that it takes you to interesting and beautiful places. A good example is a cache I placed at Shelly Beach at Lauries Bay about 2 km along the beach from Kini Bay. I took a walk down the coast from Kini Bay on New Year's Day to do some maintenance on the cache and took my camera with. This is the view from close to the cache location…
Taking a walk along the Kini Bay coastline with Chaos Boy on New Year's Day
New Year's Day is known as the one day in the year when people flock to the beaches in their hundreds thousands millions to wash off the dust from the past year and celebrate the arrival of the new one. A few years ago we discovered that the gully in Kini Bay gets bypassed by most and it has now become a tradition for us to go and spend our day swimming and snorkeling here. This year was no different…
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_089qMYVI&w=500&h=400]Seeing that yesterday was Christmas there was no Video Friday post. I decided to not skip the video of the week though so here it is today. How many of us didn't swim in the "wave pool" in front of Something Good at Pollok Beach when we were kids? To think of it, I should take my kids there again. The video is another time lapse by Dunkan Noakes.
If you had to start walking along the beach from Maitland you will pass Blue Horizon Bay, Van Stadens River Mouth, Gamtoos River Mouth and Kabeljous before getting to Jeffrey's Bay. Miles and miles (literally) of sandy beach. I've always wanted to do it. Maybe... someday.
A little detour via Beachview on the way back from Jbay today had me driving along the road from Maitland to Seaview for the first time in ages. Strange how often I used to get out there and how seldom I do these days. Just had to stop and get a picture of the road along the coast. Between this stretch and Marine Drive from Schoenies to the beachfront we sure have a few notably scenic coastal drives around the…
Everybody probably knows the well known line from Game of Thrones. "Winter is coming..." Well, going by the weather out there today it is clear that SUMMER IS COMING!
Driving along the N2 from Port Elizabeth to Colchester you pass the Coega harbor and then it's a straight stretch to the Sundays River with not much to see on either side. Have you ever driven that road and wondered what the coastline between the harbor and Sundays look like? I didn't get to see it up close but I did fly over it (and man was my arms tired - yes, old joke, I know) just after takeoff on our way…
Flat Rocks is the area between Pollok Beach and Cape REcife where the rocks stretch out to see at low tide. The rocks are very accessible and very popular with fishermen. The younger crowd in PE wouldn't know that the spot where the Flat Rocks parking area is now (across from the Humewood Golf Course entrance) used to be where the Palm Beach (Flat Rocks) Roadhouse was located.
A drive through the Cape Recife Nature Reserve brought me to the Patti Beach parking area. This is the view from the beach along the coastline looking towards Noordhoek.