Lauries Bay is situated on the Wild Side close to Kini Bay and is a collection of shacks (as the owners call them) on private land. To get to it you either need to know somebody there to get access via a dirt track or walk about 2km along the beach from Kini Bay. On the eastern side of Lauries Bay is the locals' most popular fishing spot called the Red Rocks. I headed that way not to fish but…
Port Elizabeth's Wildside has a notably rugged coastline. It's not called the Wildside for nothing. It does mean that there are countless gullies and spots between the rocks to explore and enjoy. Like this one at Lauries Bay near Kini Bay.
Lauries Bay is a collection of cottages - or shacks as the owners call them - on private land along Port Elizabeth's Wild Side just before Kini Bay. The only way to get to them is along a private track which only the shack owners have access to or walking along the beach. I've never been to Lauries Bay before but an ex-boss of the Damselfly invited us out there for a day and I got a chance to explore…
The wild Croc is not endemic to the Eastern Cape so I was very surprised to find one basking in the sun and taking a rest between the rocks at Lauries Bay on the Wildside. It wasn't threatening at all so I got nice and close to get a photo before leaving him alone. He probably would have left at the next high tide.
Tomorrow is back to work for me. Summer may be here but my holiday is over. It didn't quite turn out the holiday I was looking forward to last year but we did try to make the most of it. Last week we spent a day at our favourite gully at Kini Bay near Seaview. A safe and uncrowded spot we like to go to when the main beachfront's beaches are overflowing. I'll be longing to this scene when I am back in…
I wonder how many locals know what a trig beacon is or have ever spot the few scattered around town. Chris and Denise of ChrisDen has put together a nice little Geocaching series that takes one along the Wildside, through Summerstrand and to the back of the airport, discovering six different beacons before looking for the #7 bonus cache. I took the following about trig beacons from their listings. Drama Princess decided to monkey onto this one to get a better view…
The view of Cape Recife from the parking area lookout on Marine Drive. The lighthouse is on the point on the right hand side and the building sticking out on the left is the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University administration building.
Cape Recife is the western point of Algoa Bay and the lighthouse on the point was built in 1851. This is the view from one of the lookout points along Marine Drive on the Wildside.
I think most Port Elizabethans take Marine Drive along the Wildside for granted. I took a location scout from Cape Town that way last week and she was very impressed with the stunning views you get of the coastline from the road. It may not be Chapmans Peak Drive, but it sure can be classified as a scenic coastal drive of note.
One of the local Geocacher teams, Chris'nDenise, recently placed a series of 7 caches called the Trig Beacon Series. Six of the seven caches were placed at trig beacons along the Wild Side and Driftsands area. The Chelsea Point Tri Beacon (I hope that's the name of the trig beacon as its the name Chris gave it in the cache description) was the third stop in the series. Chris gave the following information about trig beacons in South Africa as the…