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Today’s posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger:

Driving down Strand Street by Port Elizabeth Daily Photo:

Last week when I popped down to the Campanile to take some photos of the bells, I also took a photo of Strand Street where it runs under the freeways.  Don’t think it’s anybody’s favorite part of town what with being covered by the freeways, having a bad reputation dating back some time for crime and having taxi’s race up and down the whole time.  What does get me though is the 2010 FIFA World Cup branding that is still up on the pillars.  I think the municipality and the MBDA is missing a trick by not getting graffiti artists to decorate the pillars under the freeway like what has happened in Newtown in Jozi.  It could make the area quite a popular spot for urban tourists and photographers.

Read more here: http://portelizabethdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2016/05/driving-down-strand-street.html.

The pipe at Pipe by Port Elizabeth Daily Photo:

Pipe at Pollok each is probably Port Elizabeth’s best known and most popular surf spot.  But have you eve wondered where Pipe got it’s name from? The perfect barrel (like a pipe) to surf?  Piping hot waves?  Waves piping in one after another? (Is there even a saying like that?) Nope, it’s very simple.  There is a storm water pipe covered in concrete that flows out in the sea at the surf spot and right in the middle of the break at high tide. Bang! There you have it. Not a lot of imagination used in naming this one like most of the other surf spots around town.  
I really like the description of Pipe that is on the Miller’s Local website.   
PE’s most consistent spot that handles most tides, all swell directions and picks up any sniff of swell around. Mostly mediocre, but can get good, and on occasion great. Where you’ll find most of PE’s hot surfers lurking about, splitting the peaks and dodging the crowds of learners, boogers, paddleskiers, SUP’s, malibu’s, surf ski’s, and pretty much anything else that floats!

Read more here: http://portelizabethdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-pipe-at-pipe.html.

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