Marine Big 5 Daily Blog 20 August

Written by August 20 2024

Marine Big 5 Daily Blog 20 August

Whale Watching near Cape Town, South Africa Welcome to Gansbaai, home of the Marine Big 5.

Trip Summary 20 August 2024:

We had another wonderful day at sea with sunny conditions and some swell. Some of our tours were heading around Danger Point as we had to launch from Gansbaai harbour due to the spring tide and the rest launched as usual from Kleinbaai. We saw some beautiful Bronze Whaler sharks at our shark cage diving boat ‘Slashfin’. Around there we also saw the Kelp and Hartlaub’s Gull and some Subantarctic Skuas. Closer to Pearly Beach we spotted some southern right whales, what a delight to watch the active mating groups. The whales were not interested in the boat at all and were showing some great behaviour at the surface. We also visited the famous Shark Alley and got to see thousands of Cape fur seals. During the day there were also some penguins spotted at sea and one of the tours had the luck of seeing a white morph Giant Petrel, a lifer for many.

 

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