It’s been an awesome couple of days, and I’m going to let the photos do most of the talking for this post! We went out for a dive near Hout Bay with the Cape Fur Seals. It was absolutely mental! There were hundreds of seals sunning themselves on the rocks, and there must have been a hundred with us in the water! They’re incredible playful and inquisitive, and they have absolutely no problem swimming up and gnawing on a camera light or a fin (or my head) to find out what exactly it is! These are the same seals that are eaten by the great whites nearby at Seal Island all winter long, but the water in Hout Bay is too cold and too shallow for the great whites, and there’s way too much kelp for them to make their way in to where we were diving. Good news for both the seals and for us! Here are a few photos from the dives and a few photos that I took my sweet time posting (probably more relevant to the last blog entry). So far the underwater shots are all freeze captures from my video footage, but I promise I’ll post some real underwater photos soon! And I’ll also be posting videos soon enough!
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Awesome pictures. Baboons on the loose-who knew?! Now I can see why you had no time to call….