Sunnyside Station

Geocaching is taking me to all kinds of places I haven’t been to before.  And here I was thinking I’ve been everywhere. This specific Grannynasty cache took me a bit off the beaten track along a dirt road just west of the Van Stadens Bridge to the old Sunnyside Station, 29 1/2 miles from Port Elizabeth.  The station is on the narrow gauge railway line that runs from Port Elizabeth all the way to Avontuur in the Langkloof.  The line which used to be utilised by the Apple Express as well as freight and goods trains from the Langkloof and Gamtoos Valley isn’t currently being used and is deteriorating due to floods and other natural elements as well as vandalism.  Very sad really.