Marine pollution is the trash that we put into the ocean and can be anything from fishing equipment to toys and plastic bags. How can this be a problem? When we throw trash away, it should be recycled or given back to nature. What we don’t take into consideration is how long it takes for READ MORE
Bottlenose dolphins love to play in the surf zone along the Keurbooms Beach. But when we encounter them in the middle of the bay they swim with the boat and surf in front of it.
Last year we got a donation to make chalk boards for the children at Siyakula pre-school and they have been well used. Now all the children have a chance to practice their letters and numbers.
The African Black Oyster Catcher is a common, endemic resident species and was the second most threatened bird species in South Africa. How did we get them back in number?, we banned 4-wheel driving on the beaches.
The Indo-Pacific Humpback dolphin is and endangered dolphin specie that comes into our bay all year round in small numbers. They spend a few months in the Plettenberg Bay area before moving on along the coastline.
Marine pollution is a great problem for the world’s oceans. Every week The ORCA Foundation have beach clean ups around Plettenberg Bay to decrease the amount of marine pollution input. This is helping to keep Plettenberg Bay’s water clean, but we still see the effect humans have on the marine mammals weekly when visiting the READ MORE
With so much bait fish in the bay, we see Brydes whales popping up all over. What also follow the bait fish are the birds, especially the Cape Gannets. The Gannets are the birds seen slamming into the water from a distance, and the reason they don’t get a headache every time, is because they READ MORE
Dolphins can move their eyes independently from each other, enabling them to focus on two different objects at one time.
Ocean Blue offers more then boat trips, we also have township tours and sea kayaking on the schedule. Â The kayaks are an amazing way to come closer to the ocean and the animals in it and its fun for the whole family.
A Turtle on the beach.  Last week a baby Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) was found washed up on Robberg beach and brought to the ORCA Foundation, a volunteer program working with Ocean Blue Adventures. The loggerhead turtles have since 1986 been on the endangered list as vulnerable (http:www.iucnredlist.org), and are now seen as endangered and READ MORE