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
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
We still have Humpback whales passing on their southerly migration. According to records a Humpback whale was spotted off Margate on 14 November with shark netting and a buoy attached to it. All NSRI stations were notified along the coastline to keep a look out for this whale. This still shows that there are lots READ MORE
Yesterday we had between 20 & 30 Humpback whales 3km off the Point of Robberg. It looks like we are going to have a great Humpback whale season this year as reports coming in from Transkei (east coast) are that there are up to plus minus 100 Humpback whales currently passing the coast, moving south READ MORE
As was expected with the rough sea conditions over the past few days the whales have been a bit scares. These large marine mammals will move into deeper, safer waters until the weather passes. However, we are still having some great sightings. The Southern Right whales are still providing endless entertainment for guests on board READ MORE
Today we had 5 Southern Right whales on our trips. On our 12h00 trip we had a male Southern Right whale which breached 3 times plus minus 200m from the boat. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; READ MORE
Humpback whales a plenty! We have been spoilt this week with sightings on “these angels of the sea” Our skipper Mario is enjoying the sight of 6 Humpback whales which had encircled the boat, giving our clients a 360 degree spectacular close encounter.
“Picture of the day” On our 09h30 boat trip this morning we had ± 100 Bottlenose dolphins playing in the surf off Keurbooms strand. With water temperatures rising to between 24 and 25°C, something we have not seen in our bay for the last 6 years, we have had sightings of whale sharks, striped marlin READ MORE
“Picture of the day” Today we had the most awesome dolphin sightings!!! On our 12h00 trip we saw ±500 common dolphins as well as 3 Brydes whales and a flock of Gannets. The dolphins and the Brydes whales were feeding.
“Picture of the day” Ocean Blue was treated to another day of fantastic sightings. On today’s 12h00 boat trip a Humpback whale brought it’s calf to show us all on the boat and gave us a spectacular performance. A further 7 Humpback’s were spotted just outside of the bay as well as a group of READ MORE