I never get tired of these creatures. If you are, forgive me. Here’s a giant specimen we saw the day before my birthday (early in March) at Long Beach, Simon’s Town. Beautiful, yes? All this… Continue reading…
Steentjies are ordinary-looking silver fish with fascinating courtship rituals. Around breeding time the males body colouring changes to black stripes and their heads turn solid black, and they find an area of sand with something… Continue reading…
Clare took this short clip on a night dive we did in February at Long Beach. There were seven divers, and you can see that – contrary to what you might expect – there’s quite… Continue reading…
After a dive on the MV Aster we surfaced to find a pod of relaxed, loosely dispersed common dolphins in Hout Bay. They kept their distance and weren’t jumping or playing, but now and then… Continue reading…
Late last year I took a trip out to find the Agulhas Current with Shark Explorers. The trip takes one 25 nautical miles off Cape Point, and once the clean, warm water of the current… Continue reading…
Here’s a bit of video footage I took of some flutemouths at Long Beach on Monday 13 February. These little fish stuck around for a few weeks, staying in the shallow water where it’s warm…. Continue reading…
The Um El Faroud is a shore entry, like most of the dives we did in Malta. Our divemaster, Sergey from Subway Scuba in Malta, liked to start early (so do we) and as a… Continue reading…
Clare took this little video on a recent boat dive. It was meant to be an example of a perfectly executed backward roll off a rubber duck dive boat, but it turned out to be… Continue reading…
A short, slightly random video clip I took on the ferry that runs from Cirkewwa in Malta to Gozo. We’d taken the ferry to go and dive the Blue Hole and Inland Sea on Gozo,… Continue reading…
Here’s Clare doing her first ever giant stride off a luzzu, which is a traditional Maltese boat. In Malta any and every sort of boat is used for diving. We loved the luzzu because there… Continue reading…
