The Cape Fur Seal: Barking Beauties of the South African Coast Imagine a beach bustling with barks and bellows, a place where playful pups tumble in the sand while their elders torpedo through turquoise waves. This isn’t a scene from […]
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The vast expanse of the world’s oceans conceals countless mysteries, and within its depths dwells an array of fascinating marine creatures. Among them, the Bronze Whaler Shark, also known as the Copper Shark or the Narrowtooth Shark, captures the imagination
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Simons Town’s, It’s Penguin Colony and Cape Point Nature Reserve in a nutshell. Simons town is a picturesque and historical town, steeped in naval history and situated in False bay only 40 minutes from the central Cape Town CBD district.
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Marine eco-systems are becoming increasingly unstable. Despite the importance of the biological diversity in the world’s oceans, and the well balanced community of species, with the over fishing, illegal fishing and poaching of the oceans resources as well as climate
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Can you guess what it is that sharks turn inside out? Seeing sharks close by gives me butterflies in my stomach (wait… that’s love?), okay then they make my stomach growl (nope, that’s when I’m hungry)… Oh, I got it!
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Let’s Talk About It, The Orca With all the “boo-ha-ha” in Gansbaai, regarding the appearance of 4 Orcas in the bay, which seemed to coincide with the disappearance of the Great White Shark population from the famous Shark Alley, I
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Let’s Talk About It…Sandbar Shark The Sandbar Shark is found in temperate and tropical waters, from the Western Atlantic, between Massachusetts and southern Brazil; in the eastern Atlantic from Portugal to Zaire; and in the Indo-Pacific from South Africa, our
Let’s Talk About It…The Spotted Ragged Tooth Spotted Ragged Tooth Shark, the name alone creates a vision of some scary teeth, while Grey Nurse Shark, seems to send thoughts completely in the opposite direction, and Sand Tiger Shark, is kind
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Let’s Talk About It…Puffadder Shyshark – aka – Cat Shark Found in False Bay, amongst other areas in the Western Cape through to Angola, this shark is a species of catshark! What? Catshark, really? Yes, really and not because it
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Another amazing shark to be found in the waters +- 25 miles off from False Bay amongst other temperate waters is the Shortfin Mako. Not to be confused with its cousin, the Longfin Mako; which grows to an average of
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