What an amazing day February 2nd was.   I’ll take you through the pictures below and explain the chronology that way. I tagged along with Steve Benjamin (Animal Ocean) on a dive charter to dive with a natural aggregation of seven-gill sharks, or cowsharks (as they’re called in Cape Town) just past Miller’s Point near […]

Steven Benjamin (my Cape Town guide and owner of Animal Ocean) and I returned from Dassen Island on Sunday, March 31st.  On Monday, Steve took me along on one of his dive charters to Duiker Island, home of a very friendly colony of Cape fur seals. They were magic to dive with, but seals always […]

Right!  So I’ve got some backlogs to do, starting with the day I arrived in Cape Town, South Africa.  I was met at the airport by local dive and underwater guru Steven Benjamin, who operates Animal Ocean, which is an all-encompassing marine eco-tourism operation.  We had some breakfast, and then Steve whisked us off to […]

Wow!  First blog update in awhile, sorry — you can blame Steven Benjamin, my awesomely over-achieving local Cape Town host, for that.  We’ve been on a whirlwind tour of Cape Town’s aquatic environments, and I’m going to post about them individually in the next few days!  Steven runs Animal Ocean, an all-inclusive ocean eco-tourism operation that offers […]

Check out my cuttlefish video!   http://gallery.me…nwyrowlands/100122 . I apologize for the lame rhyme, but  nothing rhymes with Tasmania.  Diving with the Eaglehawk Dive Centre, we spotted this cuttlefish at The Pinnacles out of Port Arthur, Tasmania.