East London

I did a quick jaunt to East London this week with my mate Louis to have his plane fixed at the factory there. It was also a chance to land at my favourite landing strip at Port St Johns, do a low fly-past of the hole-in-the-wall along the Wild Coast and also visit my mates grave-site in East London's West Bank cemetery.. prime spot on the top of the hill where the lighthouse casts an eerie torch over the tombstones.

 

Dave clears the family grave

Dave and Hein's sister Shirley took time to travel to East London to fix her brother Hein's grave at the West Bank Cemetary there. Hein's memorial plaque is fixed to his brother's grave which is alongside that of her mother Josephine. Buks was killed in a car accident in which she (at 18 months old) her brother Hein and two sisters were travelling on the way back from her own mother's funeral that day.

PE and EL

We spent a few days in Port Elizabeth while Llewellyn  was attending an Opthalmology and SpecSavers conference and on Saturday I drove down to East London, stopping in Grahamstown to fetch Hein's sister Shirley. I hired a weedeater and some tools and we spent the afternoon at the West Bank Cemetary fixing up Hein's and her mother's grave.

The rest of the time in PE was spent acquainting myself with the little city - very neat, tidy and litter free and on the Friday we enjoyed a superb beach party under the freeway bridge with an Arabian theme. Good trip!