The Firefly Photo Files

 Both The Firefly Photo Files and Port Elizabeth Daily Photo have been combined into one blog called Firefly the Travel Guy and moved over to the Wordpress platform.   Please join us at h...

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I am way behind on my blogging.  Like in "get Dr Strange in here with the Time Stone and send me back 6 months so I can try to start and catch up" behind.  Life is getting in the way and l...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2018/04/we-picked-strawberries-in-hankey.html

The Wild Coast isn't called the Wild Coast for nothing.  It may be paradise but it can get rough out there if it wants.  So with that in mind, it's nogal strange that there are only three ...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2018/03/wild-coast-lighthouses-cape-morgan.html

I have driven between Port Elizabeth and East London so many times over the years yet the Great Fish Point Lighthouse has always just been a dot on the coastline some distance away.  The rea...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-great-fish-point-lighthouse-finally.html

Most people would prefer a bath (with the drought, not something I have done in a very long time*) in the privacy of their own bathroom behind a closed door.  Most people don't mean everybod...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-bath-with-view-in-hogsback.html

One of my South African travel bucket list items I got to tick off during 2017 was going on a motorcycle sidecar tour in the Cape.  A visit to a conference in Stellenbosch had the opportunit...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2018/01/around-cape-in-motorbike-sidecar.html

Parties are getting more and more sophisticated.  Back in our days it was kids coming over and eating cake and sweets while watching a video and playing.  These days parents are pulling out...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/12/scuba-diving-party-in-port-elizabeth.html

The Hole in the Wall near Coffee Bay on the Wild Coast truly is one of the iconic sights (and sites) of the Eastern Cape and South Africa and recognised worldwide.  Hole-in-the-Wall was n...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/12/hole-in-wall-icon-of-eastern-cape.html

At the bottom of the beach in Coffee Bay is Bomvu Hill offering stunning views of both Coffee Bay to the north side and Bomvu Bay to the south. The village is located to the left just out of ...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-views-of-coffee-bay.html

One of my absolute travel highlights during 2017 is the fact that I finally got to visit the Hole in the Wall near Coffee Bay on the Wild Coast.  It was somewhat of an embarrassment to be so...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/11/i-finally-got-to-visit-hole-in-wall.html

I have always wanted to make travel videos.  When I started working as a tourist guide in 1998 I had a little video camera which I filmed my tours with.  Back then I didn't know anything about...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/11/spending-day-in-tsitsikamma-video.html

One of the very popular activities to do when young international backpackers visit Coffee Bay is to learn to surf.  Most of the backpacker lodges in the area offer surf lessons and there is...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/11/going-surfing-in-coffee-bay.html

The Karoo Heartland has a unique beauty which I have really learned to appreciate more and more as I have gotten older.  If you're a forest or beach person then the Karoo may not be for you,...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/11/koffiebus-and-teebus-on-moody-day-in.html

I was in East London a couple of weeks ago and noticed the neighbourhood watch board on the guesthouse gate.  Neighbourhood watch groups do an amazing job getting residents together and cur...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/10/a-ninja-turtle-problem-in-east-london.html

  Being from the Eastern Cape we all know that there are areas where you have to be very careful driving at night.  Unlike our friends in the Big Smoke it's not robbers and highjackers we h...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/10/beware-warthog.html

When I downloaded this photo of me sitting in the road near Jansenville in the Karoo Heartland from my camera onto the laptop and saw it, the first thing that came to my mind was "The road is...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-road-is-long.html

No visit to Graaff-Reinet will be complete without a visit to the Valley of Desolation yet I wonder how many people actually realise that the Valley of Desolation is located within the Camdeb...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-couple-of-surprises-in-camdeboo.html

History buffs totally love Graaff-Reinet , what with it being the oldest town in the Eastern Cape (fourth oldest in South Africa) with about 220 listed historical buildings.  Best of all, yo...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-historic-walk-around-graaff-reinet.html

Getting lost somewhere doesn't always have to mean you don't know where you are.  Sometimes you are so in awe of where you are that you lose track of time and literally get lost in your own ...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/07/lost-in-antique-store.html

One of the first things Karoo Girl asked me when she heard I was going to visit her home town of Graaff-Reinet , was if I was going to go and see the oldest cake in the country.  Now I know...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-oldest-cake-in-south-africa.html

I have always had a love for cacti and succulents.  Perhaps because there are so many different species, because they often surprise you with the most beautiful little flowers or because the...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/07/giant-cacti-at-obesa.html

Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo Heartland is often referred to as the Gem of the Karoo.  Spending a long weekend in the town just again proved to me that this gem isn't one buried deep under grou...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/06/graaff-reinet-gem-discovered.html

The last two months have been an absolute blur. Don't ask me where it went, I just know it's gone and I am exhausted.  But things are getting back to normal and hopefully I will get my blogg...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-graaff-reinet-church-looking-rather.html

I'm finally busy going through and editing the pictures I took in Graaff-Reinet a few weekends ago and will start posting about our visit shortly.  One of the photos I found was this one of Mi...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/05/looking-out-museum-doorway.html

A walk around the Reinet House Museum in Graaff-Reinet recently had me wander into the mill house in the backyard.  They're currently busy with restoration work and a hand written sign on a ...

https://fireflyafrica.blogspot.com/2017/05/we-still-bezzy-for-moument.html