The bridge over the Nahoon River in East London

This Nahoon River bridge seperates Nahoon from Beacon Bay in East London.  The Nahoon River runs into the ocean at the mouth, at Nahoon Beach.  One of the longer swims that Amakhosi Masters Swimming Club had when they hosted the South African Masters National Swimming Championships in East London in 2009, was held near this spot.  There are another three bridges that cross the Nahoon River further up the river too.  See the video below:

Anyone in SA remember the mid 80's SABC series The Volunteers?

It was on the far bank of this river in the photo, near Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, that the SABC series The Volunteers was filmed in the mid 1980's.  A group of "volunteers" lived like the 1820 settlers - I remember how they ended up arguing and moaning so much.  Took this photo in 1985 on a standard 9 (grade 11) school English trip to Grahamstown and surrounding areas.  We walked down a long road off to the right of where this photo was taken from, and jumped across rocks and used a little canoe (I think, was some time back now!) to get to the other side of the river and go look at the area where The Volunteers had lived, during the SABC filming of the series.  Everything had basically been removed already, but, having had enjoyed the South African tv series, it was kinda cool to be standing exactly where The Volunteers had lived, and had been filmed.

(post by Terry)

The East London beachfront in 1994

This photo of the East London beachfront, and looking towards the dunes of Eastern Beach, was taken from an 8th floor apartment above the Kennaway Hotel where I was living at the time.  This was in 1994, 16 years ago, now, when I was 25 (I'm now 41.)  Numbers nightclub and disco was just across the way from the East London aquarium that you can see in the photo (the aquarium has a pale blue wall).  (Numbers was next to where Virgin Active Gym is now.)

(post by Terry)

Looking at yachts on the Buffalo River in East London

Tony's hair was still short!  If you have an old nickname like Yottie, and you used to do sailing on dinghies and catamarans, and also had an interest in 1m radio controlled model racing yachts, then you'll also want to pop down to the East London harbour, to be reminded of what you love and miss, and, who knows, perhaps be motivated to make a plan about getting back into it, and onto the water again.