Great Whites

We are at present taking more Great White Shark photos for our archives and have had some success. Yesterday the sharks were passive and only staying mid water alot of the time not wanting to play too much. I did however manage to snap a good photo just after the shark missed the bait and came back into the water. On wednesday we had a lovely 4m+ shark trying to breach the bait over and over again giving us great photo opportunities! I am in my element!! Today the wind is blowing so will give it a miss. Looks like the weather will only clear up mid next week again.

Life in Gansbaai

We are in full swing this winter with a mixture of warm sunny beach days contrasted with cold stormy days with high seas. The swell is 7.2m today but looks beautiful from land with perfect pipelines forming along the breaks. The boats are all off the water but it will be back to businesses tomorrow. The shark activity has still been amazing with one boat the other day recording 23 Great White Sharks on a trip! We also have plenty of Whales in the bay now just metres from the shoreline! Life is great here!!

Shark Diving today

I left early morning to collect our client Alex from the Airport. The morning was fresh at 7c on the way to cape town. On the way to Gansbaai it climbed to 15c by 10am. We got to the Roundhouse and then we dropped off his bags in his room and went straight to the crew house for the Shark diving. We had an excellent time with the sharks are Alex had a couple of close up encounters with the sharks from the cage. We had about 8 different sharks with 1 breach on the bait which was very nice. All in all it was an excellent day!

06-07-2009

Today started wintry with rain and a bit chilly at 17c (same as the UK!! :-)) Time to wear the winter clothes again! Yesterday and Saturday was a different storey however and it was beach weather (23-24c) We went to the tidal pool and had a braai (BBQ) by the ocean. The kids had a try with the fishing rods and had a blast! The sun poked out at around 11am and it has been a nice day since. The seas were not really affected by the small cold front and all shark diving went ahead as usual with all boats booked up fully! Sharks as usual were excellent and apart from a few sea sick sufferers everyone had an excellent time at sea! The Whales are back in numbers and we are seeing them daily now and in numbers. The Whales as we all know here are much better on our side of Walker bay rather than the tourist popular Hermanus. A few of our clients have bragged about their experience of sipping a glass of wine at sunset in the Jacuzzi whilst watching the Whales breach (jump out of the water) in the bay. This is PARADISE!!!

03-07-2009-Roundhouse

The weather today was blustery and seas picked up. A few of our guests were out at sea with the sharks and I took a couple of clients to Cape Agulhas. It was an excellent day out and we all had a great day visiting the most southern tip of Africa. We saw a Stingray at the beach at Strausbaai and has a great burger a Cafe Nostra on the beach. We went up the Lighthouse and stood at the most southern tip between the 2 oceans. (Atlantic & Indian) We then headed 1km down the road to the newest shipwreck on the coast (1983) called the Meishu Maru. I was amazed to see that the wreck had been completely turned around and the bow of the boat which was previously headed towards the beach was not headed out to sea. The seas must have been really big to turn such a huge structure!