Take a walk on the Wild side . . .
search
Search results
Xhosa Calendar
... used helical rises of stars. It seems that all cultures knew about both, its just that one particular marker was used more than others were. ... tell me more Dumela sir/madam you say ur Tswana & u ...
Jeff Brown - 31/12/2025 - 23:35 - 12 comments
Hiking the Wild Coast
... I've hiked them all; the charm of the Wild Coast draws me back time and time again. The best known - arguably the classic -Wild ... chaperone. I found him quite by chance when I inquired about hiring a porter for a Wild Coast hike. Port St Johns Tourism suggested I ...
Jeff Brown - 05/06/2024 - 08:43 - 1 comment
East Coast Rock lobster Crayfish. (Panulirus homarus)
... The eggs are tended there until they hatch. The larvae spend about five months in the currents out at sea and undergo metamorphosis 11 times ... incompetence, and closed, protected, markets. Believe me: there is no shortage of the tasty little beasties. Fish, mussels and ...
Jeff Brown - 07/12/2023 - 12:32 - 37 comments
Jacaranda
... the scene. The ship continued to approach the coast and about 700-800 metres out suddenly lost power and turned broadside on to the ... wash to clean up, looked at each other and told my Mother “me no wash, me no wash”. My Mother replied “you no wash you no come in my ...
Jeff Brown - 28/04/2023 - 08:13 - 2 comments
Oceanos shipwreck
... dropping something. Eventually the Oceanos was rolling about from side to side so badly that crockery and cutlery began sliding off ... Boltman, "later in the morning, the Captain even contacted me from shore to ask how things were going."Butler, Moss Hills and Tracy Hills ...
Jeff Brown - 17/06/2022 - 09:27 - 2 comments
Nongqawuse
... "The Xhosa are a superstitious people," one old man said to me. "They died by Nongqawuse on account of their superstition." And then he ... find it distasteful that such deep and important history about our ancestry is so carelessly misrepresented and dislocated. Nondi ...
Jeff Brown - 30/01/2022 - 14:32 - 21 comments
Facts about Mussels
... mussel that we find along the east coast of SA only lives about 2 years. Pearls are cultivated in freshwater mussels. You can ... Very interesting! Could you tell me how long the Mussels take to reach an edible size ie. 7-10cm that we get off ...
Jeff Brown - 09/06/2021 - 06:37 - 17 comments
Thin edge of the wedge
... while the "khamkham" blew over with buckets of rain. (We had about 150 mils in 3 days.) The Dispatch had this to say: ... Zone Management for the Eastern Cape, who kindly sent me a copy of the RoD (Record of Decision) and gave me a condensed rundown on ... and I remember Tele proudly showing me his land when I was about 16 or so) and a couple of other folk. Sidwell told me that they organised ...
Jeff Brown - 04/06/2021 - 11:10 - 0 comments
Wild Coast History
... vessel, the Calarasi, perished in similar weather conditions about five nautical miles from the site where the Cordigilera went down. In her ... St Johns Could you perhaps give me the distance of the continental shelf off Port St Johns? ...
Jeff Brown - 27/05/2021 - 20:20 - 2 comments
Sheep & Stars
... the floor and electricity. The third hut is for Alicia and me. The main building has got a fully functioning bathroom and kitchen in it. ... by banana plants. We have got a large property of about 70 x 70 meters on a small hill inside a valley with a 360 degree view in ...
Sheep & Stars - 12/05/2021 - 17:10