“Picture of the day” With the strong easterly winds blowing yesterday vast shoals of pilchards & mackerel moved into our bay to feed on the plankton rich water that had been blown in. With this came the Gannets, Common dolphins and Brydes whales.
“Picture of the day” For the last couple of days we have been very lucky to have various pods of Common dolphins feeding in our Bay. The groups have ranged between 150 and ±1500. We also had Brydes whales feeding with them and yesterday afternoon, we had a group of 7 lunge feeding between the READ MORE
“Picture of the day” Another awesome trip on the ocean!!! Today on our 09h30 boat trip we encountered a pod of ± 500 Common dolphins, busy feeding at Dune Park. After about 5 minutes they were joined by 5 Brydes whales a few Cape Fur Seals and Cape Gannets.
“Picture of the day” On our 09h30 boat trip this morning we picked up a nice pod of dolphins ±100-150, moving from Grootbank towards Keurbooms Village, surfing and playing in the waves. They kept our guests entertained for 20 minutes. We then moved off and came across a small group of very rare Indo-Pacific Humpback READ MORE
“Picture of the day” We had a pod of ±2000 common dolphins in the bay this morning. We also had Brydes whales feeding in the bay. These dolphins are associated with diving seabirds (particularly Cape Gannets), Penguins and Brydes whales – all feeding on the same small pelagic fish (pilchard, herring, squid etc.)
“Picture of the day” The Elephant Seal basking in the sun with the Cape Fur Seals. The Elephant Seal is part of the true seal family and differ from the fur seal in several ways. Firstly, they don’t have fur, second they do not have external ear flaps; third they only have incisors on the READ MORE
“Picture of the day” In this picture, our vessel Damara beaching, after yet another fantastic trip on the ocean. Today we had many excited phone calls about Orca’s in the bay. Upon further investigation we were able to determine that the animals that caused so much excitement were in fact the offshore species of Bottlenose READ MORE
“Picture of the day” Our regular visitor to the bay, the Elephant Seal is basking in the sun amongst the Cape Fur Seals at Robberg Peninsula As seen in this picture, Elephant Seals are much bigger than Cape Fur Seals.
“Picture of the day” We had another exciting day on the ocean. We encountered a pod of Bottlenose dolphins playing in the surf at Keurbooms. They kept our clients on the boat entertained for 20 minutes, surfing waves and jumping through the back of the waves.
Picture of the day” Today on our 09h30 boat trip we encountered these Bottlenose dolphins playing in the surf and riding the waves at Keurbooms.