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Jonker Fourie of Firefly the Travel Guy brings you the beauty of the Eastern Cape through his camera lens. A province of diverse scenery, history and cultures.
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30/12/2024

The town of Graaff-Reinet seen from the lookout point on the way to the Valley of Desolation. The Sundays River forming a horse shoe around the town is clearly visible.

27/12/2024

A typical Karoo Heartland landscape. Farm gate, windpomp and Karoo koppies, in this case Koffiebus and Teebus near Steynsburg.

26/12/2024

About 30km from Graaff-Reinet on the way to Aberdeen, a cast iron bed stands in the veld. According to legend, the grave is that of a woman who took ill and died while the family was trekking through the district by ox-wagon. They weren’t from the area and had no family, farm or town to return to for a proper burial in a cemetery. Her husband decided to bury her next to the road and touchingly used their marital bed to mark and protect her grave before continuing on the journey with the rest of the family.

There is no record of who she was and what date she died, but cast iron beds only became commonplace in the late 19th century so it is unlikely to have been from the time of the Great Trek.

24/12/2024

The Karoo Heartland's own Table Mountain, a Karoo Koppie named Tafelberg located on the R56 outside Middelburg in the Eastern Cape.

23/12/2024

Waiting for the waves with the dolphins in Jbay

19/12/2024

The Anglo-Boer War Museum at Mount Ingwe in the Elandsrivier Valley between Port Elizabeth and Patensie is run by Lukas van der Merwe. The museum contains items collected over 25 years by Lukas and his friends who have hunted Anglo-Boer War sites all over the country with their metal detectors.

Lukas can be contacted on 082 072 7747 to make an appointment to visit the museum.

18/12/2024

Early morning rough seas with waves crashing over Bird Rock in Port Elizabeth

17/12/2024

Shark Rock Pier at Hobie Beach is one of Port Elizabeth's best-known landmarks. It was completed in 1990 and measures almost 140 metres.

Interesting bit of info on the name Shark Rock. It's actually a total misnomer. The rocky outcrop known as Shark Rock upon which the pier was built was named after the Shark River that empties into the sea at Humewood Beach. However - it isn't actually the Shark River at all. It was the Sak River, so named by the Dutch originally as the water used to sink (sak) away into the sand The English then bastardised it into Shark instead of Sak...and Shark it stayed.

16/12/2024

Approaching Hole in the Wall from Coffee Bay with local huts and homesteads dotting the landscape. Hole in the Wall is in the back in the middle of the picture.

13/12/2024

Crossing the Orange River between the Eastern Cape and the Free State on the Hennie Steyn Bridge near Bethulie. This closed spandrel deck arch bridge is a combined road and rail bridge and is 1,152 m and 51.5m high. It used to be the longest bridge in South Africa until the completion of the 1.2km long John Ross Parkway along the N2 spanning the Enseleni floodplain and Nsezi River near Richards Bay in KZN.

12/12/2024

Olive Schreiner House in Cradock is one of the houses where Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the political activist, feminist and author of the world-renowned novel, The Story of an African Farm, once resided. The house, one of the oldest dwellings still standing in Cradock and is used as a museum to depict the life and times of Schreiner.

11/12/2024

The giant South African flag is on the Donkin Reserve next to the Donkin Memorial pyramid, built by Sir Rufane Donkin for his wife, Lady Elizabeth, after whom he named the town in 1820. The flag pole is 65m tall and the flag is 12m x 8m in size.

10/12/2024

One of my favourite things about Nieu-Bethesda is seeing the water run through the village’s water furrows. These ancient stone leivore date back to the early days of the village and supply water to the village from a spring in the mountain above the village.

09/12/2024

The view across the bay towards Storms River from the rest camp area in the Tsitsikamma section of the Garden Route National Park. The walk to the suspension bridge over the river mouth from here is 1 km.

05/12/2024

The 39 Steps Waterfall in Hogsback. You get to this little waterfall after an easy walk through the Arboretum.

This photo was taken during a fairly dry spell so the waterfall wasn't in full flow.

04/12/2024

Kareedouw in the Langkloof was established in 1905 as a Dutch Reformed Church congregation. The church is on the southern side of town, with the Tsitsikamma Mountains right behind it.

03/12/2024

How do you like my tuxedo? They say penguins always make you happy. Have you ever tried looking at one and not smile? During this coming holiday, why don't you head on down to SANCCOB in the Cape Recife Nature Reserve and learn a little more about these very endangered birds?

02/12/2024

There's a cat in the grass. Finding one of the Mountain Zebra National Park's big cats on a Cheetah Tracking Walk in the park.

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