Attie Heunis's Journey

The ramblings of a Caucasian African American

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Originally from South Africa’s magnificent Eastern Cape, my family and I now reside in Pennsylvania in the United States. To earn my keep I’m an executive for a multinational company in the Healthcare sector. I’m also a serious amateur photographer. Pro-environmental and conservation views.

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  • Middle Beach pools

    Friday was spring tide so yesterday at low tide we went to Middle Beach in Kenton to mess around in the rock pools. There is a massive pool there (pictured here) that is just wonderful to swim in. The water was very nice and it was hot enough so I couldn’t resist getting in. I…

  • Review: Soul Eater

    I loved the first 2 books (Wolf Brother & Spirit Walker) in The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series so I was looking forward to the 3rd one – called Soul Eater. Unfortunately it didn’t really rise to my expectations. I can’t really put my finger on it, but the story felt a little thin. Also…

  • Boesmans sunrise/sunset & more

    I have just updated the Bushman’s River Mouth homepage to show a 3-day weather forecast. This data is ‘live’ and pulled via an RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feed from BBC. Sofar the forecasts have been very accurate. I’m still trying to get an RSS feed of the tides, but sofar the closest match is for…

  • Brand new Mercedes C Class: a beauty!

    We just saw the brand new Mercedes C Class outside our shop. It is so new it has not even been priced yet in this country nevermind released. I must say it is a beautiful car! I’ve always been a fan of Mercedes since my dad had the W126 (the best selling shape Merc has…

  • Jeremy Clarkson goes too far

    Generally speaking I like liked Jeremy Clarkson. I thought the furore when he destroyed a very old tree a couple of years ago was justified but I thought that maybe he just made a mistake. I couldn’t give a toss if he calls a car “gay”. This week though he went too far. By ignoring…

  • Inaugural Boesmansriviermond BigBash

    This weekend we had the inaugural Boesmansriviermond BigBash. The idea being to have a party for people our age in and around Bushman’s. We organised it a bit late and not for the absolute best time (in the school holidays) so many people couldn’t make it, but despite that everybody that was there had a…

  • Karen Zoid at our coffee shop

    There was great excitement today when Karen Zoid and a group of her friends/relatives spent the afternoon in The Red Apple, our coffee shop. For foreign readers of this blog, Karen Zoid is a very well known Afrikaans rock singer.

  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 is out!

    Today when starting Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was told that Lightroom 1.1 was available for download (at the Lightroom website). Being the technofile that I am I downloaded and installed instantly. Install is painless. By reading the release notes I was wondering if there was going to be much different because they make it sound like…

  • Huis Heunis (Riversbend)

    Ek en Lené het so ‘n paar maande terug besluit om huis te bou. Ons is gatvol gehuur – ons moet in en uit oor Desember en ons betaal net ‘n ander ou se huislening af. Die erf waarop ons gaan bou het ek kontant gekoop vir ‘n appel en ‘n ui terwyl ons in…

  • The Pink Lady

    Yesterday my sister, her husband, Lené and I took the kids to Tamjazi, a petting zoo/coffee shop outside of Alexandria for some R&R. Here Elke is just about 9 months old. I’m proud to say that the frown on her face was inhereted from me!