It’s Sardine Run Show Time! I’m here again, watching the greatest underwater show ever witnessed, the sardine run. Every cell in my body is wired – I’m back in the middle of this underwater feeding frenzy, which a sardine baitball, no bigger than a SUV, is creating. Numerous predators leading a chaotic yet organized attack…
Category Archives: Whales
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Apr
Apr
[doptg id=”16″] I am writing this blog article to put on record my opinions of the whale stranding that happened on 24 March 2013 on Noorhoek beach, Cape Town. Though I was quoted in the press and appeared on various national TV news stations, the press is notorious for either misquoting one or using select…
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Sep
Sep
It’s the Southern Right Whale season in False Bay, South Africa and I am blessed to have one of the best vantage points to view them 24/7. All day at the AfriOceans office they entertain and delight us with breaching, tail slapping, their blowing so loud, or simply just cruising past the office. At night back…
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Jun
Jun
Harpoons hover midair as greedy whaling nations eagerly anticipate being given the green light to legally slaughter thousands of whales worldwide when this week the vote will be taken at the International Whaling Commission in Morocco to either lift the ban on commercial whaling for the first time since 1986, or not. Japan has aggressively…
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Jun
Jun
Yesterday late afternoon as a full moon begun to rise, a small crowd of about 120 people, including Kim Mc Klean, who had driven from Hermanus especially for the event, gathered to honour the whales that were shot on the beach the weekend before. Spiritual healer and shaman, Shelley Ruth Wyndham, spoke words of wisdom…
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Jun
Jun
I’m on horseback in the mountains in the middle of nowhere. I’ve planned this weekend away with my daughter, an avid horse rider, months back. It is our first weekend away together this year, I’ve been too busy. I make the mistake of taking my mobile. It rings. I’m notified of false killer whales beaching…