I ♥ Summerstrand Because ...

I ♥ Summerstrand

Hi, I’m Christine Landman from Carslogie House in Summerstrand.

Summerstrand IS BEST KNOWN FOR its beau­ti­ful beaches.

GET YOUR PICTURE TAKEN AT the Pier because it has the most beau­ti­ful view.

THE BEST beach PICTURES CAN BE TAKEN AT Hobie Beach or fur­ther along towards the flat rocks.

OTHER HAPPY SNAPS AT The Boardwalk and Entertainment Centre.

WHEN THE WEATHER'S GOOD, I LIKE TO take a long walk along the prom­en­ade which stretches all along the beach­front or to play a game of golf at the Humewood Golf Course.

WHEN THE WEATHER'S BAD, I LIKE TO visit The Boardwalk Casino and Entertainment Centre.

I THINK THE BEST TIME OF YEAR TO VISIT IS sum­mer, BECAUSE the beach­front is a hive of activ­ity. Continued

I ♥ Port Elizabeth Because ...

I ♥ Port Elizabeth

Hi, I’m Jonker Fourie (known online as Firefly) from Port Elizabeth Daily Photo in Port Elizabeth.

Port Elizabeth IS BEST KNOWN FOR its friendly people, beau­ti­ful beaches and coast­line, game reserves on our door­step, diverse his­tory and unfor­tu­nately... the wind, which isn’t any­where as bad as people like to make it out to be.

GET YOUR PICTURE TAKEN AT with a lion cub at Seaview Game and Lion Park or chee­tah at Kragga Kamma Game Park.

THE BEST sun­rise PICTURES CAN BE TAKEN AT Shark Rocks Pier or on the Donkin Reserve.
OTHER HAPPY SNAPS AT Sardinia Bay, Maitlands or around the his­toric build­ings on the Donkin Heritage Trail.  Check out PE Daily Photo for lots of happy snaps ideas. Continued

10 Great things to do when in Port Elizabeth

Port Elizabeth

Regarded as both the friendly and windy city, depend­ing on who you're talk­ing to and when, Port Elizabeth is deemed a great place in which to hol­i­day, its people gen­ial, its beaches envi­able and its weather gor­geous almost the whole year round – winter beach moments can eas­ily sur­pass scorch­ing sum­mer sizzlers.

And des­pite the jibes about copi­ous amounts of 'indus­trial scenery', the warm waters of the Indian Ocean are enough of an attrac­tion for the aver­age Capetonian to turn a blind eye to the factory-scattered skyline.

There is a list a mile long of great things to do when in Port Elizabeth, but here are 10 we think you'll enjoy, some of them indis­put­able, oth­ers a little less obvi­ous ... Continued

Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Port Elizabeth (photographs)

The five-tier, 1.1 bil­lion Rand Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium was built over­look­ing the North End Lake in the heart of the city of Port Elizabeth. The Nelson Mandela Stadium will host 8 games dur­ing the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It will host 5 group games, as well as knock out games. A round of 16 game, a quarterfi­nal and the 3^rd/4^th play­off will be played at the sta­dium ... Continued

Hansgrohe Masters of Water Lifesaving Series on Kings Beach

Be sure not to miss the 2010 Hansgrohe Masters of Water Lifesaving Series on Kings Beach on the 19^th of December 2009 at 13h00. This 3 part series kicks off in Port Elizabeth, fol­lowed by a trip to Cape Town in January and then cul­min­at­ing in Durban, where the 2010 Hansgrohe Master of Water will be announced.

Following its inaug­ural suc­cess, Hansgrohe con­tin­ues to build on this annual event, to pro­mote train­ing and devel­op­ment in this volun­teer sport, Hansgrohe invites 31 top lifesav­ing ath­letes from across the coun­try to par­ti­cip­ate and com­pete at an inter­na­tional level in 2 main cat­egor­ies; beach and surf. The events include beach flags, sprints, swim, board, ski and the iron man chal­lenge ... Continued

Bayworld Museum Complex

Bayworld

Now known as Bayworld, which means you get to see the Oceanarium, the snake park, and no 7 Castle Hill as part of the same visit, the country’s third old­est museum boasts a 15 metre Southern Right whale skel­eton, a life-size recon­struc­tion of the giant dino­saur Algoasaurus (it’s not a recently dis­covered spe­cies, but a take on Algoa Bay!), and a bronze can­non that dates back to 1640 that was recovered from a Portuguese galleon ship­wrecked off the coast near Port Elizabeth.

If that isn’t enough reason to visit the Port Elizabeth Museum, which effort­lessly com­bines cul­tural and nat­ural his­tory in dis­plays of dino­saurs, bird and mar­ine life, cos­tume and local his­tory, Xhosa bead­work and a curi­os­ity corner, then per­haps the mari­time his­tory hall will do the trick. Fully rigged mod­els of sail­ing ships of an era long gone by, together with the ships’ arte­facts, never fail to impress; whilst mod­els and skel­et­ons of whales, sharks and dol­phins give one a still life view of the live anim­als on dis­play in the Oceanarium, which offers close encoun­ters with local mar­ine wild­life. And the snake park is a ver­it­able feast of rep­tiles that include tor­toises, juven­ile cro­codiles, geckos, ter­ra­pins and snakes. Continued