Some days in winter we get cabin fever and I insist on taking a drive to somewhere that allows me to feel open space. Cape Point in Table Mountain National Park fills that need. On… Continue reading…

Did you know there’s a giant piece of artillery on top of Red Hill overlooking Simon’s Town? Yes, there is. I was standing just in front of a very large gun when I took this… Continue reading…

Here’s a timely link to a Scientific American article about why certain kinds of whales beach themselves. The article references a mass stranding in 2009, of 55 false killer whales that took place on Noordhoek… Continue reading…

We’re going to take a break from Friday poems for a while, and chill out on the last day of the working week (for me, not for Tony!) with a photo. I’ll start with a… Continue reading…

Here’s the rest of the set of photographs I took on Friday 22 March of the shark exclusion net being deployed for the first time at Fish Hoek beach. There’s a press release about the… Continue reading…

A shark exclusion net has for some time been planned for Fish Hoek beach. The net will not kill sharks and other marine creatures like the ones in KwaZulu Natal do, but rather forms a… Continue reading…

Surfers share the water with sharks all the time, often at very close quarters. Almost all the regular surfers I know have a story about a dorsal fin cutting through the waves, or a dark… Continue reading…

I’ve been a bit slow off the mark on this one – the paper was published in late January of this year – but here you go: some exciting new research on the white sharks… Continue reading…

The MV Katsu Maru is a 40 metre long Japanese trawler, now lying approximately 30 metres south west of the MV Aster in Hout Bay. On days with good visibility, which has been the case… Continue reading…

Date: 22 January 2013 A rare, windless day in January allowed me to do a dive at Long Beach with students, and then to take the boat out to Shark Alley straight afterwards. While we… Continue reading…