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Port Elizabeth is the Bottlenose Dolphin Capital of the World – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Port Elizabeth is the Bottlenose Dolphin Capital of the World by Port Elizabeth Daily Photo: Last night I attended the launch of Port Elizabeth and Algoa Bay as the Bottlenose Dolphin Capital of the World at the Algoa Bay Yacht Club.  The initiative was the brainchild of Lloyd Edwards of Raggy Charters and isn't sommer maar so.  It's not like Lloyd just got up one morning and decided that he wants a new gimmick to promote the city and … [Read more...] about Port Elizabeth is the Bottlenose Dolphin Capital of the World – Featured Blog

IM South Africa 2016: race day re-lived – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: IM South Africa 2016: race day re-lived by Look Sharp in Lycra: It’s been more than a week since I completed my first Ironman, and a good chance to reflect on my achievement and look back on the day with a little more perspective. So here they are: my memories of 10 April, 2016. Race day re-lived. The day I became an Ironman! 03.20-04:50 Wakey wakey An early alarm, giving me plenty of time to get up and carry out the checklist of … [Read more...] about IM South Africa 2016: race day re-lived – Featured Blog

Travel Bug Bites and Combatting the Voices in My Head – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Travel Bug Bites and Combatting the Voices in My Head by Keep Passing the Open Windows: So, even though I’ve always known that “travel” is one of those all-round Bucket List items that I desperately want for my life, something quite serious has changed in me in the last little while. A massive shift over the line between dreaming and doing has taken place, and while I am still not entirely sure about my … [Read more...] about Travel Bug Bites and Combatting the Voices in My Head – Featured Blog

Three Karoo Heartland icons – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Three Karoo Heartland icons by The Firefly Photo Files: Three Karoo Heartland icons, all in one picture.  Big open sky, Karoo koppies (in this case Koffiebus and Teebus outside Steynsburg) and the good ol' reliable Windpomp. Read more here: http://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2016/04/three-karoo-heartland-icons.html. Click HERE to submit your blog to be part of this daily feature. CLICK HERE to get a daily digest of PE … [Read more...] about Three Karoo Heartland icons – Featured Blog

McArthur’s and Kings Beach at night – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: McArthur's and Kings Beach at night by Port Elizabeth Daily Photo: Another one of the pictures I took while supporting the Ironman competitors last Sunday evening.  This time from next to Denville Beach looking past the McArthur's towards Kings Beach and the Port Elizabeth Harbour.  See if you can see the fisherman on the beach... Read more here: … [Read more...] about McArthur’s and Kings Beach at night – Featured Blog

Pro Dive Adventure Boat & Ocean Safari’s – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Pro Dive Adventure Boat & Ocean Safari’s by Sardine Run Port Elizabeth: A Marine Safari Port Elizabeth video selected by Expert Tours: Pro Dive Watersport Centre offers Adventure Boat rides and Ocean Safaris’. Adventure boating is an exhilirating high speed boat ride along the coastline of Port Elizabeth while the Ocean Safari is to explore our beautiful coastline with possible sightings of marine life. Click here to … [Read more...] about Pro Dive Adventure Boat & Ocean Safari’s – Featured Blog

Vrystaatse Vlaktes – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Vrystaatse Vlaktes by The Firefly Photo Files: I have come to love the wide open spaces of the Karoo Heartland in the Eastern Cape but just haven't been able to get used to the, what we call in Afrikaans, Vrystaatse vlaktes.  Vrystaat is the Afrikaans name for the Free State, South Africa's central province while vlaktes is an very descriptive Afrikaans work for wide open spaces stretching for miles.  The wide open spaces, … [Read more...] about Vrystaatse Vlaktes – Featured Blog

Pollutants in fish inhibit human’s natural defense system – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Pollutants in fish inhibit human’s natural defense system by Sardine Run Port Elizabeth: In a new study, environmental pollutants found in fish were shown to obstruct the human body’s natural defense system to expel harmful toxins. The research team suggests that this information should be used to better assess the human health risks from eating contaminated seafood. Marine Biology News — ScienceDaily Click here to visit … [Read more...] about Pollutants in fish inhibit human’s natural defense system – Featured Blog

Bird Island Approach – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Bird Island Approach by Sardine Run Port Elizabeth: A St Croix Algoa Bay video selected by Expert Tours: The approach to Bird Island from the sea. Bird Island and St. Croix Island in Algoa Bay were proclaimed as part of the Addo Elephant National Park in 2005. Bird Island is part of a group of four islands and is an important breeding place […] Read more here: Sardine Run Port Elizabeth. Sopwith, Dolphin 5.F..1 – Dolphins by … [Read more...] about Bird Island Approach – Featured Blog

See the Devastation Caused by the Recent Earthquakes in Japan – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: See the Devastation Caused by the Recent Earthquakes in Japan by Sardine Run Port Elizabeth: The quakes are the largest to strike the region since the 2011 disaster. National Geographic News Click here to visit Expert Tours. Read more here: Sardine Run Port Elizabeth Great Barrier Reef risks losing tolerance to bleaching events by Sardine Run Port Elizabeth: New research suggests that Great Barrier Reef (GBR) corals were able to … [Read more...] about See the Devastation Caused by the Recent Earthquakes in Japan – Featured Blog

Nelson Mandela Bay – The place I call home. – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Nelson Mandela Bay - The place I call home. by Port Elizabeth Daily Photo: Earlier in the week I came across this awesome YouTube video on Facebook posted by Renaldo Gouws.  Renaldo is well known for his political related comments but this time he sent his drone up to show off this beautiful place he (and I) call home.  This particular video shows off a bit of the Kings Beach area and it would be great to see similar … [Read more...] about Nelson Mandela Bay – The place I call home. – Featured Blog

Sparkling and blue at McArthur’s pool – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Sparkling and blue at McArthur's pool by Port Elizabeth Daily Photo: No doesn't that just look inviting?  And before somebody comments about the fact that the water is probably cold because there are all those people on the side and nobody in the pool.  This was taken at the Ironkids event last weekend. The people are parents and supporters watching the kids in the water in the other pool. Read more here: Port Elizabeth … [Read more...] about Sparkling and blue at McArthur’s pool – Featured Blog

Sandla & Vuyo – Inkwenkwezi Private Game Reserve, East London – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Sandla & Vuyo – Inkwenkwezi Private Game Reserve, East London by FullCircle Photography | Port Elizabeth and Garden Route wedding photographers: It’s always a pleasure shooting at Inkwenkwezi Private Game Reserve, just outside East London.  A venue, although well-known to us, that always offers something new. Vuyo and Sandla recently held their wedding celebrations there and we throughly enjoyed our day with this wonderful couple. … [Read more...] about Sandla & Vuyo – Inkwenkwezi Private Game Reserve, East London – Featured Blog

Remembering the Slagtersnek hangings – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Remembering the Slagtersnek hangings by The Firefly Photo Files: If you are flying along in a northerly direction through the Karoo Heartland on the N10, the main drag between Port Elizabeth and Cradock, do slow down a bit after you pass the first turnoff to Somerset East and keep a look out on the right hand side of the road for a cenotaph like monument.  Once spotted, do pull over and have a look as this is a very significant spot … [Read more...] about Remembering the Slagtersnek hangings – Featured Blog