A selfie while walking in the Sardinia Bay Nature Reserve

After a morning of mowing the law and doing some things around the house I headed out for a spot of Geocaching this afternoon. Rather than just doing a few park and grab caches, I opted to go for a walk in the Sardinia Bay Nature Reserve and pick up a series of 12 caches … Continue reading A selfie while walking in the Sardinia Bay Nature Reserve →

Mountain biking in the Baakens Valley

We are so fortunate to have the Baakens Valley green belt running through Port Elizabeth. The area truly has the potential to become a prime outdoors activities part of the city and already is very popular with mountain bikers and trail runners. When I found this great video on YouTube showing off the great trails … Continue reading Mountain biking in the Baakens Valley →

Humble Ways Road

This afternoon I went for a drive up to Humble Ways private nature reserve on Lovemore Heights. It wasn't that I wanted to go for a walk, I just wanted to drive down the track to the gate through the vegetation tunnel around the track.

Chasing the Rainbow hiking in The Island Nature Reserve

Sarah and Ralph from Chasing the Rainbow dragged the kids (ok, so they did go willingly but you know teenagers) off for a hike through The Island Nature Reserve just outside Port Elizabeth last weekend. I've done the Bushbuck Trail through the reserve and it is one of my favorite trails in PE. Check out … Continue reading Chasing the Rainbow hiking in The Island Nature Reserve →

Zebras in the city

It's not often that you get the opportunity to see game right in the city. An early morning walk on the Grysbok Trail in the NMMU Nature Reserve gave us the opportunity to see zebra fairly close up and while on foot.

Animals in the Sardinia Bay Conservancy – Chasing the Rainbow

Chasing the Rainbow is a fellow travel blog based here in Port Elizabeth. The blog is done by Sarah and Ralph Dirsuwei and covers mostly family travel which means that they involve their three sons Jacob, Luke and Cian. The family lives in the Sardinia Bay area within the Sardinia Bay Conservancy. For the last few months Jacob has … Continue reading Animals in the Sardinia Bay Conservancy – Chasing the Rainbow →

Drama Princess’ dedicated Geocache

One of the local Geocachers, Team Navimate, have been honouring Eastern Cape cachers by placing caches in their honour along the Grysbok Trail in the NMMU Nature Reserve. I first discovered the trial when I went to find a cache placed in my honour about a year ago. Just after New Year I received an … Continue reading Drama Princess’ dedicated Geocache →

Watching zebras on foot

One of the things Drama Princess enjoyed most about walking through the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Nature Reserve was the fact that we spotted a lot of zebra along the way and could get fairly close to some of them without a problem. How often does city kids get the opportunity to get things like … Continue reading Watching zebras on foot →

Walking in the NMMU Nature Reserve

Drama Princess on the Grysbok Trail in the NMMU Nature Reserve

Did you know there is a nature reserve and hiking trail at NMMU?

I went for an early morning walk along the Grysbok Trail in the NMMU Nature Reserve with Drama Princess last weekend and this was the view back towards the campus and university buildings from the reserve. The university campus was declared a private nature reserve in 1983. The reserve covers 830 ha and is dominated by … Continue reading Did you know there is a nature reserve and hiking trail at NMMU? →