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Things to do in Port Elizabeth this summer – Grab a backpack and take a hike

There is an Afrikaans folk song that goes, Dis heerlike Lente, die Winter's verby... (It's time for Spring now that Winter has passed - doesn't quite roll off the tongue the same in English though) which means Summer is fast approaching. Longer days, better weather and spending more time outdoors over weekends. Plus the holiday season is coming up quicker than my sausage dogs when I open the fridge. With an eye on said better weather and upcoming holiday season, I…

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11/10/2016

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A selfie while walking in the Sardinia Bay Nature Reserve

After a morning of mowing the law and doing some things around the house I headed out for a spot of Geocaching this afternoon. Rather than just doing a few park and grab caches, I opted to go for a walk in the Sardinia Bay Nature Reserve and pick up a series of 12 caches that I've been wanting to do for a while now. The caches in question aren't on the regular trails but rather higher up in the…

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18/09/2016

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A path inviting you to explore

I had 30 minutes on my hands yesterday afternoon and did a quick detour to Mangold Park to find a new Geocache on the edge of the Baakens Valley. From the parking coords at the bottom of a cul-de-sac there were two paths splitting off. A paved one to the right which I had to follow to find the cache and the one in the photo to the left. Obviously the call of the cache was strong andf I hurried…

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03/09/2016

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Chasing the Rainbow hiking in The Island Nature Reserve

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck6YfO5YZ3s&w=500&h=400]Sarah and Ralph from Chasing the Rainbow dragged the kids (ok, so they did go willingly but you know teenagers) off for a hike through The Island Nature Reserve just outside Port Elizabeth last weekend. I've done the Bushbuck Trail through the reserve and it is one of my favorite trails in PE. Check out the video they made and then head over to their blog and read the post by clicking the link above.

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22/04/2016

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Drama Princess’ dedicated Geocache

One of the local Geocachers, Team Navimate, have been honouring Eastern Cape cachers by placing caches in their honour along the Grysbok Trail in the NMMU Nature Reserve. I first discovered the trial when I went to find a cache placed in my honour about a year ago. Just after New Year I received an email from Navimate to let me know that they are placing a cache for Drama Princess and we made arrangements for it to be published…

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16/01/2016

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Watching zebras on foot

One of the things Drama Princess enjoyed most about walking through the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Nature Reserve was the fact that we spotted a lot of zebra along the way and could get fairly close to some of them without a problem. How often does city kids get the opportunity to get things like this and it's right here on our doorstep.

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14/01/2016

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Walking in the NMMU Nature Reserve

Drama Princess on the Grysbok Trail in the NMMU Nature Reserve

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12/01/2016

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Did you know there is a nature reserve and hiking trail at NMMU?

I went for an early morning walk along the Grysbok Trail in the NMMU Nature Reserve with Drama Princess last weekend and this was the view back towards the campus and university buildings from the reserve. The university campus was declared a private nature reserve in 1983. The reserve covers 830 ha and is dominated by the St Francis Dune Thicket vegetation characterised by clumps of thicket occurring within a matrix of Dune Fynbos. The Grysbok Trail itself was established in…

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11/01/2016

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Cape Recife trail

The Cape Recife Nature Reserve has various trail options through the area with the 9 kilometer Roseate Tern Trail the most prominent. The trail includes a walk along the coast line and through the vegetated dune field, visiting a bird hide, the Cape Recife Lighthouse and the old Second World War lookout and barracks along the way. The trail also gives you the opportunity to see a wide variety of fauna and flora as well as to explore the rock pools along the…

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25/10/2015

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Fynbos Ramble

The Fynbos Ramble is one of several trails through the Van Stadens Wildflower Reserve. They're all easy, manageable trails and well worth doing, specially this time of the year with all the proteas in flower.

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06/10/2015