Sunset from Newton Park

I had to go and drop Drama Princess off at school tonight for the last night of their school concert and this was post sunset looking from Newton Park side across the Baakens Valley towards William Moffet.

The guy who built the 3rd Avenue Dip

As one drives through the 3rd Avenue Dip from Mangold Park side through towards Newton Park, there is a parking area to the right just after the bridge from where the Lower Guinea Fowl Trail starts.  On the edge of this open space is a stone bench with plaque on it.  The bench and plaque is a little "monument" to David Baillie Lovemore (1926 - 1994) who pioneered this crossing of the Baakens Valley in 1955.  The road itself was built by Savage and Lovemore (a firm he co-founded) in 1957.  Now there's a bit of info I bet you didn't know.  

3rd Avenue Dip under water

We may be coming out of a drought, but when it rains it pours.  The low water bridge over the Baakens River at the 3rd Avenue Dip floods very easily and so it was the case again with all the rain we had this weekend.

Just another angle to show the flooded road (as well as another one of the idiots many cars that bypassed the barriers that were put up to stop people from driving through the flooded road)

View from The Bridge

I went to Greenacres and The Bridge Shopping Centre for the first time in ages on Sunday morning and snapped this pic from the windows on top of The Bridge.  It looks down on CJ Langenhoven Drive going towards the Cape Road interchange.  And before you ask why there are so few cars on the road, remember it was Port Elizabeth on a Sunday morning.

Low water bridge

Another post featuring the 3rd Avenue dip between Newton Park and Mangold Park.  The low water bridge at the bottom of the dip is often submerged after persistent hard rain and flooding. 

3rd Avenue Dip

Everybody in Port Elizabeth knows the 3rd Avenue dip.  It is where 3rd Avenue, Newton Park crosses through the Baakens Valley and before the construction of the William Moffat Express Way it was the main access road between Walmer and Newton Park.  The 3rd Avenue dip was built in 1957 and still is a very popular road used as an alternative to William Moffat.

Very close to the low water bridge, which is often under water after big rains, stands a bench as a monument to David Baillie Lovemore.  Lovemore was the person who pioneered this road through the Baakens River.  Now there's a fact I bet the PE folk didn't know.