On Sundays 9.30 trip we had a great sighting on a pod of Humpback dolphins at Keurbooms beach. Through photo identification our researcher concluded that it is the same pod that was spotted earlier in the week. En-route from the Keurbooms beach to the seal colony we spotted a Bryde’s whale. Bryde’s whales are the READ MORE
Corals are the lungs of the ocean. They have the most bio diverse habitat on the planet with most species in the water some way associated to it. The corals on the reef build their skeleton out of calcium as do the crabs, mussels, oysters, crayfish, prawns, starfish and sea urchins. Coral reefs are under READ MORE
Bottlenose dolphins are seen throughout the year, normally along the Keurbooms beach where they play in the surf. On our Marine Encounter trips we go down along that side of the bay to Keurbooms beach in our search for dolphins, before we head over to the Robberg Peninsula and the Cape Fur seal colony.
When joining Ocean Blue on a township tour during the week the highlight is to see Qolweni´s nursery school and Pre-school. The children are always happy to see new faces and get the chance to make someone smile with songs or just giving hugs to willing participants.
The sardine run, the largest biomass migration in the world, is even larger than the migration of the wildebeests. This is an annual migration of Pacific sardines (Sardinops sagax) from the Agulhas bank Northwards along the East coast of South Africa to the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) area in winter. The Pacific sardine is a small pelagic, READ MORE
The Humpback dolphin is an endangered dolphin and the species we see in small numbers. Humpback dolphins are not as active as the Bottlenose dolphins but sometimes surprise everyone on the boat by starting to jump and breach like crazy. This rare event is always precious to see, knowing that we might lose them in READ MORE
A common question to get about marine animals is “what do they drink”? Do they find a fresh water source and drink from that or do the whales put their heads out in the rain to drink rain water? The answer is: they do not drink water like land animals do, as they don’t risk READ MORE
The Black-Footed African Penguin is found on the South-Western coast of Africa, living in colonies on 24 islands between Namibia and Algoa Bay, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa. There are also a few colonies on the main land. The most famous one is on Boulders beach in Cape Town. The closest one to Plettenberg Bay READ MORE
In South Africa we have a mix of different cultures, tracing back when people first settled in South Africa. When skyping two weeks ago with a school in Spain, both schools dressed up in their traditional clothes, to show to each other. We can in this photo see some differences between different cultures in the READ MORE
With a Cape Fur seal colony of +-4500 animals in Plettenberg Bay, the shark population should be large too. We do have Great White sharks coming into the bay to patrol the colony and beaches for food. We especially see more of them in June-July around the Gap and Cannonball Cave area on Robberg. One READ MORE