by WhatsOnInEL | Mar 7, 2024 | News
The world’s largest floating book fair will be open to the public! Many may remember the previous visit in May 2016, when around 29,000 visitors were welcomed up the gangways. Now, Logos Hope will be making another visit! Logos Hope’s onboard book fair offers an...
by WhatsOnInEL | Sep 15, 2023 | News
Precious, precious photo of our port and the old Castle Point lighthouse, back in the day. Unfortunately the photo is not dated. Castle Point Lighthouse was commissioned on the 1st of August 1860. Built on a rubble base, it was a tapered square timber tower painted...
by WhatsOnInEL | Aug 31, 2023 | What to do
The lovely seaside holiday village of Kei Mouth is situated 45 minute drive from East London on the Wild Coast. Solar-Powered Beachfront Accommodation in Kei Mouth Kei Rocks and Sea Breeze are two adjacent self-contained two-storey, seafront holiday apartments. Each...
by WhatsOnInEL | Aug 13, 2023 | News
The treacherous East London coast claimed one of its most high-profile victims on Tuesday, 13 August 1974 when the SA Oranjeland ran aground off the Esplanade.Built just five years earlier in Hamburg, Germany, the state-of-the-art cargo vessel left the Port of East...
by WhatsOnInEL | Nov 8, 2022 | What to do
Kidd’s Beach, just off the R72 – and a mere 23km from East London’s King Phalo Airport- lies the picturesque peaceful and progressive village of Kidd’s Beach. The Mkhanzi River – which takes its name from the Xhosa word “Umkhanzi” meaning “bulrush”- forms...
