Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Enjoy some PEness from the air: I often wish I had a drone to be able to shoot some aerial views of all the fantastic places and attractions around Port Elizabeth. Check out this awesome video I found on YouTube showing off PE from the air done by Jayme Thompson in collaboration with Indian Swell Productions and Jared Lotz. PEness is AWESOMEness. Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. The Holy Trinity Church … [Read more...] about Enjoy some PEness from the air – Featured Blog
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Head-on with a Sable antelope – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Head-on with a Sable antelope: Mount Camdeboo Game Reserve outside Graaff-Reinet has a Sable antelope breeding program and while on the game drive we stopped next to the camp for a closer look. This young male came walking towards the fence and stood still watching us long enough for me to get a nice head-on photo of him. Just a pity for the fence wires in between.Some info about the Sable courtesy of Wikipedia:The sable … [Read more...] about Head-on with a Sable antelope – Featured Blog
The Baakens River Mouth – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: The Baakens River Mouth: It's sad to think that the Baakens River mouth was once a big lagoon where passing ships came to collect fresh water for their voyages yet today it's a cement canal under the Settlers Freeway which flows into the PE Harbour. Some major revamping and restoration needed to give this river mouth any dignity again. Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. Click HERE to submit your blog to be part of … [Read more...] about The Baakens River Mouth – Featured Blog
Explore the Bay: Uitenhage – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Explore the Bay: Uitenhage: Uitenhage, which forms part of Nelson Mandela Bay, is no stranger when it comes to history, festivities and futuristic technology. The town, founded in 1804 by General Jacob Cuyler, boasts a number of museums that play a pivotal role in South Africa’s history, a few heritage buildings, multiple outdoor activities such as hiking trails and paintball fields and also education centres … [Read more...] about Explore the Bay: Uitenhage – Featured Blog
The week that was…. – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: The week that was....: © James FloodSeptember finally awoke from her slumber and after a very slow start to the week saw a weekend of super fun waves roll in. Later on this week is looking promising so the month might not end up being a damp squib after all.Stanley Badger © Robbie Irlam© Jot de LauwereMonday woke up with a hangover and there were some dribs and drabs lurking about if you made the effort to drive. Just lots … [Read more...] about The week that was…. – Featured Blog
Coral Trees – PE’s Jacarandas – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Coral Trees - PE's Jacarandas: Port Elizabeth can't boast with Jacaranda Trees flowering so beautifully around town in Spring as Pretoria and Bloemfontein can, but I just luuuvvveee all the Coral Trees flowering around the city. Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. Voting Line shadows: It turns out that the Voting Line on the Donkin Reserve isn't just made up of interesting and diverse silhouettes, it also throws the most … [Read more...] about Coral Trees – PE’s Jacarandas – Featured Blog
Ed with Charl – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Ed with Charl: Tap here http://www.algoafm.co.za/article//80488/sunday-sitdown-18-september-2016-ian-olivier Source: BrainStorms – Ed Lunnon's Blog. Click HERE to submit your blog to be part of this daily feature. CLICK HERE to get a daily digest of PE Goodness straight into your inbox with the MyPE Monday to Friday Newsletter. … [Read more...] about Ed with Charl – Featured Blog
Another view of St Mary’s Cemetery – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Another view of St Mary's Cemetery: Yesterday I posted a photo of the St Mary's Cemetery along with the grave yard's history. I decided to follow it up with another photo of the cemetery but from a totally different angle. This one is standing at the bottom and looking away from the road and up the terraces. Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. Click HERE to submit your blog to be part of this daily … [Read more...] about Another view of St Mary’s Cemetery – Featured Blog
Looking across the Donkin – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Looking across the Donkin: The woman with the chair, Anton Momberg's Untitled art piece forming part of Route 67, looks across the Donkin Reserve towards the Donkin Lighthouse and Pyramid. Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. The sad angel: This past week I posted two posts featuring the historic St Mary's Cemetery at the bottom of the Baakens Valley. There are so many interesting bits to photograph in a cemetery like this … [Read more...] about Looking across the Donkin – Featured Blog
Happy Birthday Ed! – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Happy Birthday Ed!: Ill 10 years / Mental: Advantage Ed / Physical: Deuce So, last Sunday, 18 September, was my 60th birthday and the tenth birthday with CBD. I am humbled by all your attention and grateful that, despite the doctor’s prognosis of five years left, I have beaten the ten year record. That’s my personal gold medal! I am also now older than both my father and my mother were when they passed away. As a family, we … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday Ed! – Featured Blog
Baakens Valley mountain biking – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Baakens Valley mountain biking: Last week's Video Friday post was a video featuring mountain biking in the Baakens Valley. Following that post I found another video about mountain biking through the Baakens Valley and seeing that it's such an awesome mountain biking venue I decided to post it as well. Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. Wild flowers along Sardinia Bay: While walking in the Sardinia Bay Nature Reserve last … [Read more...] about Baakens Valley mountain biking – Featured Blog
Coastal Clean-Up Day – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Coastal Clean-Up Day: By Dr Lorien PichegruInstitute for Coastal and Marine Research NMMUDespite the buckets of rain in PE on International Coastal Clean Up day, Saturday the 17th of September, thanks to the incredible efforts of many volunteers, including hundreds of school kids and military personnel, we successfully removed well over 11 tons of rubbish from our shores. This waste will not end up entangling or choking … [Read more...] about Coastal Clean-Up Day – Featured Blog
Celebrate Your Heritage – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Celebrate Your Heritage: September is heritage month, a month in which South Africans are encouraged to celebrate and embrace their culture and the diversity of their beliefs and traditions. Nelson Mandela Bay boasts nearly one hundred heritage sites, but when you look at the intricate colourful tapestry of South Africa, our heritage does not only reside in our historic buildings and sites, but it also exists … [Read more...] about Celebrate Your Heritage – Featured Blog
The road to Noodhulp – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: The road to Noodhulp: The road to Noodhulp (Afrikaans for First Aid) is not what you call the route somebody takes when they are cruising for a bruising and looking for trouble with a big oke. Not that kind of thing at all. I found the road to Noodhulp while en route to Mount Camdeboo Private Game Reserve outside Graaff-Reinet and after a double take reversed back for a better look to make sure that was the name I saw and … [Read more...] about The road to Noodhulp – Featured Blog
The history of St Mary’s Cemetery – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: The history of St Mary's Cemetery: I got to attend Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism's launch of Tourism Month at the newly refurbished Tramways Buildings a week or two ago and had some time on my hands before the event began so went for a walk through St Mary's Cemetery. It's really sad to see the state the cemetery is in specially seeing the historic value and position it has. I went scratching for the history around the cemetery … [Read more...] about The history of St Mary’s Cemetery – Featured Blog
