24 September 2010

The owners of The Roundhouse Dave & Elna recently visited Mozambique on their annual site inspection for the resorts that they market on www.scubamozambique.com. The trip was very successful with new and exciting packages soon to be introduced. They also had the pleasure of diving and snorkeling with Hump Back Whales, Manta Rays, Whale Sharks, Dolphins and even saw the odd shark.

Mozambique is an exceptional place to visit for large marine life and if you are a diver or non diver Dave & Elna can build in Mozambique into your holiday to South Africa. They are going back again in a couple of few weeks with a large dive group from Poland and cannot wait to get back into the warm waters of the Indian Ocean.

20 September 2010

Dave and Elna are on their way back from spending some time with clients and the Sharks in Mozambique. According to the message I received they had a very successful time and lots of fun up in Mozambique and Durban during Shark week.

17 September 2010

All the Shark operators had to cancel their trips due to the cold front passing through. At least we still have the pleasure of watching the Whales, from shore, breaching and playing in the waves.

13 September 2010

The Roundhouse is saying au revoir and adios to our French Couple and Spanish gentlemen, who stayed with us at The Roundhouse for this past week. It was a pleasure to have enjoyed your company.

9 September 2010

The weather is changing again, but our clients doing the shark cage diving is smiling and they all are having fun. The ones that are leaving us today, is taking a lot of memories with them and lots of pictures.

We hope they all will come and visit us soon.

6 September 2010

What a week!!! I’m looking at The Roundhouse calendar for this week and we are fully booked. The weather couldn’t be better and everyone is enjoying it. We will keep our fingers crossed that it will last.

4 September 2010

Dave and Elna, the owners of The Roundhouse and The Great White Adventure Center have left for Durban and Mozambique at a very early hour this morning. The Roundhouse staff wish them a save journey and beautiful weather.

28 August 2010

It has been a very busy week for Dave and Elna, the owners of The Great White Adventure Centre and The Roundhouse. They are in the midst of shark week arrangements.

SharkWeek’ has been designed for divers wanting the best possible experience of diving with sharks. All diving takes place without cages. The dive team will introduce you to the many different species of shark that we have on our coastline.

This week will start of in Durban and then move over to Cape Town. That will give the dive enthusiast, that couldn’t attend it in Durban, also a change.

After Shark week they are off to Mozambique for some more scuba diving with clients. I wish them all the success, fun and a save journey.

2 August 2010

Gansbaai was like a ghost town this morning. You can hear the people and the cars, but can’t see them. Due to a thick wet blanket of fog with a visibility of about 4m we thought the Shark operators will have difficulty in locating the sharks, but hold and behold they had an excellent day, even had a whale passing close by.

The fog cleared eventually and they day turned out sunny and warm. That is why Gansbaai is so popular. Never know what to expect next.

4 August 2010

Here at The Roundhouse we are quite busy. Luckily for us the weather is playing along, needless to say, our clients love it and the shark operators can’t keep up with all the bookings. The sharks are plenty and the whales here in De Kelders are attracting a lot off sightseers.

We couldn’t ask for better.

9 August 2010

It is like a beehive here at The Roundhouse. We are expecting a big family from Spain and everything must be spick and span for their visit.

12 August 2010

The weather turned on us again a few days ago, but today seems like it’s going to be beautiful. I took the Spanish family to the caves at The Plaat, but before we reached our destination we saw some Whales and stopped. We could take some excellent photos from shore and could even here some “talking” between the whales.

They truly are magnificent animals and so big.

After the exploration of the caves I took them to Kleinbaai for their shark cage diving experience.

All in all it was a wonderful day spent with some big hearted and friendly guests.

16 August 2010

The Roundhouse is shaking it feathers in preparation for the Dark Tide film crew. We wish them a comfortable stay and all the success with there production.

31 July 2010

Surprise surprise! I watched the weather report last night and they said the nice weather will hold for the next week at least and what a surprise this morning. Strong winds and a very choppy sea which means some of the shark cage diving trips were canceled, but while I was trying to keep my hair on my head and not in the air, I saw the first signs of spring, a beautiful white blossom tucked away low on the ground between two trees.

I have a feeling that it’s going to be a wonderful spring and summer. The whales are giving birth and breeding at De Kelders and giving us a splendid show each time they breach and what a sight when you see a few whale’s skin glistening in the setting sun while they laze in the water just meters from shore.

28 July 2010

It is interesting to read something on the net and you just can't wait to share it with someone. I red that the North American Right whale increases the volume of their calls as environmental noise increases. They produce up calls, or also called contact calls, when they are alone or in the process of joining with other whales. An up call begins low and rises in pitch. It is the most frequent call produced by Right whales

The up-call is useful because it’s distinctive and is a little like small talk. It is the sounds of a right whale going about its day and letting others know it’s nearby.

It sounds like a loving family or community, much like we have here in Gansbaai.

27 July 2010

The reason why Gansbaai is the Big 2 Town or also known as the Capital of the Great White Shark is because no shark nets are used here so the Great White and the Southern Right Whales together with other sea creatures are safe to swim in these waters.

South Africa is one of three countries in the world that use shark nets, the other two countries are New South Wales in Australia and Hong Kong. The authorities claim it is to protect beach goers, but the nets don’t discriminate and cause huge ecological damage. Apart from approximately 1000 sharks caught every year, a large number of harmless shark species as well as Whales, dolphins, stingrays and sea turtles are caught and die in these nets.

21 July 2010

The owners of the Great White Adventure Centre and of The Roundhouse love what they do and that is to organize either a scuba dive holiday in Mozambique or just a day out Shark cage diving in Gansbaai. They work according to the clients wants and needs and the client will have a tailor made holiday package.

They are also passionate about the sharks in our oceans and were excited when they read on the WWF website about a Mr. Herrmann who invented a gadget to safe the sharks. He used a shark's ability to detect magnetic fields as a way to protect them from accidentally being caught on fishing lines. He found that placing strong magnets just above the baited hooks on long-line fishing nets seemed to repel certain shark species away from the lines.

It has become vital to protect the Great White who is but one of 350 different types of shark species and finding ways to do that is an ongoing battle.