Visiting Holmeleigh Farmyard isn't only about feeding the animals. Kids also get to go on horse rides, tractor rides and see Queenie the cow being milked. During the milking demonstration kids can also try their hand at milking as well. Or as in this case, get the milk squirted directly into their mouths.
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Seaview Preditor Park walkway
The walkway at Seaview Predator Park (previously known as Seaview Lion Park) takes one over a couple of enclosures with animals in them. Along the way we saw a bush pig, black panther, meerkats, hyena and lion and tiger cubs to mention a few. The park is great for local kids who would never be able … Continue reading Seaview Preditor Park walkway
Horse riding at Holmeleigh Farmyard
When people get to Holmeleigh Farmyard the first thing that they normally do is to go and feed the animals. There after the moms (and dads) normally sit down for some coffee and perhaps something to eat while the kids head off to go and play in the big playing area. There are two other activities … Continue reading Horse riding at Holmeleigh Farmyard
Bunny hugger
Drama Princess being a real bunny hugger, literally, at Holmeleigh Farm on a recent promotional visit with Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism and Bay FM. She absolutely adore animals, doesn't matter if it's her dogs at home, farm animals like these, the donkeys at the East Cape Horse Care Centre or wild animals on game drives … Continue reading Bunny hugger
Feeding sheep at Holmeleigh Farmyard
A think a lot of city kids would have benefited from growing up on a farm, being able to play outside all the time, help with the animals, ride on the tractor or the back of the bakkie and eat a lot more health rather than sit inside, watch television, play Playstation and eat junk … Continue reading Feeding sheep at Holmeleigh Farmyard
Penguin watching
Today is International Penguin Day and in celebration thereof I'm posting a pic of Drama Princess interacting with one of the African Penguin at SAMREC in Cape Recife.
Penguin pool
On Saturday I took Chaos Boy and 15, yes 15 of his friends to SAMREC for his 11th birthday party. Eddie from SAMREC showed them around the centre and told them all about penguins, the ocean and why conservation is so important. Here they're learning more about the birds in the penguin pool. Thank goodness we got … Continue reading Penguin pool
Ice cream combi
Imagine my surprise when I heard a tune from my childhood coming down the road the other day. Not 80's pop music or anything from a kiddies tv show but the hi-pitched, slightly more than monotone tune of a ice cream truck combi. I have seen one around town but it was the first time … Continue reading Ice cream combi
The Great Grass River Bridge
One of the little trains at the Port Elizabeth Model Locomotive Society in Londt Park crossing the Great Grass River Bridge
Little trains
On the first Sunday of the month families with young children (mostly but definitively not exclusively) flock to the Port Elizabeth Model Locomotive Society's venue in Fernglen to ride these beautiful little trains. It only costs R6 per person for a ride which will take you around the yard on a couple of loops, through a … Continue reading Little trains
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