Monday, October 26, 2009

A Killer Whale in Gansbaai

The most extraordinary thing happened over this past weekend week (it has been a week of extraordinary occurrences, that's for sure).

Besides an unusually high amount of walk-ins at the guesthouse, and a random 13-person strong Dutch group who booked for cage diving this coming weekend. Jenny Reich saw what she thought was a Killer Whale. The following day, while taking guests out and about, she saw a Killer Whale (it may have been the same one) along with a calf. The guests she was with caught this on film too.

To further corroborate this bizarre occurrence, Janeen from the Great White Adventure Centre told us she also saw a Killer Whale with a calf when she was driving with her husband.

What a lucky week it was last week, with a natural predation AND the preposterously unlikely occurrence of finding a Killer Whale along our coast. It appears our luck may be out as I write this now during one of the worst storms I've ever seen in Gansbaai. There was lightning a for a short time too, and the wind is howling to the point that I keep thinking roofs are going to be ripped off!

All we can do is weather this particularly nasty storm and hope Summer comes with a little more grace.

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