On 12/18/2016, James Stuart answered 5 Questions about Port Elizabeth for publication on MyPE:
1. Are you Port Elizabeth born and bred?: Yes
2. Favourite part of Port Elizabeth?: Central, the Hill, Main Street back in the day when …, King’s Beach to Noord Hoek, Schoenies; so much to enjoy and love.
3. Complete this sentence; “Port Elizabeth would be better with …………”: More jobs, less crime, good schools for all.
4. Your PE Secret Spot?: A spot near the Fort overlooking the Baaken’s Valley, hidden among the rocks where no one can see you from above.
5. Your favourite PE Memory ever?: Most superb body boarding experience ever back before body boarding became popular using a Triang Banzai Board. It was either that or make your own. Huge break at Summerstrand and only one other person in the water, a distant long board rider – 1970.
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I know that secret Fort spot on the rocks…and I had the same Banzai Boogie Board.!!!!! It was bright orange, a hard plastic thing.Recall taking a huge beachbreak number at Pollock and having the wind driven out of me when it closed out and rammed the board into my guts 🙂
The secret was to hold it well in front coming off the top then tuck it right under one when the face collapsed & hold tightly until safely in front; flippers were essential. I had a pair of blue Cressi which I always bought from Leishers (Spelling?) north of Main Street. The board came from the Surf Shop, in Grace or Rodney Street close to Strand Street if my memory serves.
With practice the board could save you in the worst Summerstrand dump and they could be bad. Seem to recall some Aussie cricketers, back in the day, complaining about being dumped there; probably used to Aussie lifeguards putting up the red flags when the shore break was wild.