Port Elizabeth is experiencing its wettest non-flood year on record (the second wettest of all time only after the 1968 floods) and we've still got another two months to go till the end of the year. Looking at all the flooding we've had they can just as well declare this year a flood year as well, but that's not my call. With the huge rains we had a week or so ago even the docile Shark River that flows through Happy Valley came…
Last week the skies above Port Elizabeth gave a stunning display of Crepuscular rays. Yes, that's the proper name for it. Usually you only get to see it for a couple of seconds or maybe even minutes, but on this day if just continued to be visible for large parts of the day. I found that there are many different names for it so doesn't matter if you call it Sunbeams, Sunburst, Sun rays, Ropes of Maui, Jacob's Ladder, Stairways to Heaven,…
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…
A phantom ship in Algoa Bay? No not quite, but wouldn't it have been awesome (and life changing) if I did capture one? The rainy weather around town the last couple of days meant that I could barely see the harbour from Shark Rock Pier at Hobie Beach the other morning. This ship kept of disappearing in the mist. Like a phantom ship...
Over the weekend there was a national kite surfing competition that took place in blistering conditions at Bluewater Bay on the eastern side of Port Elizabeth. It was a stunning site seeing all the kits bulging in the wind with the city in the background.
As I have mentioned before, Port Elizabeth as well as big parts of the Southern and Eastern Cape is in the grips of what is said to be the worst drought in 150 years. Last week we had about 3 days of on and off rain which brought huge relieve to the lawns and gardens around town. Unfortunately there is still a lot of rain needed in the catchment areas before the drought is broken.
For the last two weeks several fires has been burning in and around the city due to the very dry and hot conditions we are experiencing. There is an big undeveloped area close to us called Fairview and late last week quite a big fire broke out there. This pic was taken from the corner of Circular Drive and Willow Road..GPS: 33°58'5.38"S, 25°31'37.07"E
Yesterday afternoon the city was hit by a terrific thunderstorm that rained buckets in some areas. When it all came down I was in our local supermarket and it stopped just before I came outside. As I got to my car the sun broke through and this magnificent rainbow streaked across the sky.