#Wednesday Walk - The Bay of Plenty Beach and Gardens on the Durban Beachfront.

This post is for the #wednesdaywalk challenge and the #makemesmile challenge collaboration. This collaboration initially took place once a month, but due to its popularity, @tattoodjay (of the #wednesdaywalk) and @elizacheng (of #makemesmile) decided to make it a weekly thing.

If you want to know more about the rules, visit this week's post by @tattoodjay where you will find all the rules at the bottom of his post after you've enjoyed his beautiful photos from his walk.

Last week I shared a post about Having Fun, Catching a Train in Mini Town.

Today I would like to show you around, going on a walk in the surrounding areas around Mini Town.

We first decided to take a walk in the gardens surrounding Mini Town.

As we came out, we walked around Mini Town and passed behind it.

Here you can see the fence at the back of Mini Town to the right in the photo below. If you take the stairs at the end of the fence, you will end up on the roof of the Circus Circus Beach Cafe below. If you keep left, you go to the Circus Circus Beach Cafe which is on the Promenade (as you'll see soon).

We decided to first enjoy the view from the roof...

Except for the little walkway along the edges of the roof, the whole roof is covered with artificial grass to blend in with the gardens behind it which are on the same level as the roof.

Standing on the roof, in the photo below, you can see the Snake Park Pier extending into the water.

The beach above (north of) this pier, is known as Snake Park Beach, due to the fact that there was a snake park in that area for many years. They gave very interesting tours and lectures, teaching about various snakes in the area, but unfortunately, they had to close their doors some time ago.

In the photo below, we look down south where you can see another pier extending into the water. The beach in front of us, between these two piers, is known as the Bay of Plenty Beach.

From here, we decided to first go down to the beach for a while before walking through the gardens.

Down below, on the promenade, this is the Circus Circus Beach Cafe.

You can clearly see the area where I stood on the roof when I took the previous photos.

We went down further to go onto the beach, and this palm tree caught my eye looking at it through this frame. I thought it would make a nice photo...lol.

The specific spot where we gained access to the beach still hadn't been properly cleared since the floods of last year...but I thought it still created a nice scene for a photo.

On the beach, looking out over the Bay of Plenty Beach.

We walked down to the pier.

Standing at the beginning of the pier, I took this photo of a fisherman, on his way to the end of the pier where he would join the other fishermen.

Standing on the pier, admiring the surf coming in...

Fishermen at the end of the pier, with the surf breaking just below them.

Looking inland from the pier, this is the view of the Elangeni Hotel on the Durban Beachfront. The Elangeni Hotel is a nice, upmarket hotel and is part of the Southern Sun Group.

From here, we decided to go for a walk in the gardens.

We passed over the roof of the Circus Circus Beach Cafe again. From their roof, you walk straight into the gardens on the same level with the fence of Mini Town visible to the right again and the Elangeni Hotel right in front of us.

To our left, was the Durban Skate Park (which I also shared about last week) with the promenade visible behind it in the background.

The atmosphere in the gardens was calm and peaceful.

There are some really nice walkways you can use to stroll through the gardens.

Zooming in this area, framed by the tree...

A nice, colorful scene in the garden...

On our way out, almost at the car, we came across these pigeons. I walked right up to them and took photos to my heart's desire...they didn't mind me and didn't bother to fly away or even get any distance between us...lol.

And with that, our outing came to an end.

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