One of the spots in the Addo Elephant National Park where one can stretch your legs is the Spekboom enclosure. After parking your car you enter the secure area and walk about 40 meters or so through the bush to a game viewing fence right by a waterhole. The walk gives you the better insight on … Continue reading Spekboom enclosure
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Pin Cushion Protea
This 450 hectare Van Stadens Wildflower Reserve lies 40 km west of Port Elizabeth on the N2 to Cape Town. It is the best place near PE to see lowland fynbos with flowering Proteas and associated fynbos endemics. I used to stop there quite often in my tourist guiding days and there is always some … Continue reading Pin Cushion Protea
Alien invaders
While we are in the area, we might as well take you along Marine Drive between Summerstrand and Schoenmakerskop. We featured the beacon the other day. If you travel away from town from there, you enter a Marine reserve, which, until recently, was covered with alien vegetation. However a concerted effort has been made to … Continue reading Alien invaders
Firefly the Travel Guy 