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Gansbaai
Travel Blogs from Gansbaai, South Africa
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Sharks at Gansbaai, by Roman
This is a top pick! ... , what seems only a couple of years ago this little town found its reputation as a must do to any adventure seeking tourist to South Africa. From the famous to the modest fans of fun, even Brad Pitt took a stop in the secluded rocky shores of this windy ...
Shark Diving: Chum = Chew + Yum
This is a top pick! ... B Hollywood films, their behaviour and biology is much more complex than once thought. Most of the shark diving operators in South Africa are dedicated to the conservation of and education about these creatures. It is not without criticism. There is a ...
Shark on the menu.....
This is a top pick! ... was on the menu for today as we were going cage diving with great whites!!!!!! We were going on an excursion near Gansbaai, the Great White Shark capital of the world. The day started perfectly with a healthy fruit salad and muesli brekkie in the ...
Shark-caging- a once in a life-time experience.
... life-time. I don't think anything will ever come close to matching it I really don't. I slept most of the way down to Gansbaai (pronounced Hans-buy) probably due to the sea-sickness pill I'd taken, or maybe the fact thatI'd gone to bed so late the ...
Shark Diving
After an early morning drive, we made it to Gansbaai, home of Shark Ally and the highest concentration of Great White sharks in the world. The boat ride out was only about 10 minutes and the waters weren't as rough as on the lava boat so everything ...
Shark Cage Diving!
... was not as terrifying as I thought it would be. We were picked up at 4:30am from the hostel and driven 3 hours away to Gansbaai. There is a section of water between the mainland and a small island (home to lots of seals) nick-named 'Shark Alley' because ...
whales penguins and survival of the fittest. scary
... was obvious that she was making the best of a very bad situation. Pay here is very low and the infrastructure of this post apartheid South Africa is slow at catching up. There are so many poor, black poor, there s an obvious division of color still here. ...
Dunes, Jaws and Vines
... female who hung around the boat for at least an hour. The next stop on our hiatus from Cape Town was Stellenbosch, South Africa’s premier wine region. We checked into the cracking Stumble Inn Backpackers and pitched our tent in their back garden. ...
Shark Cage Diving
... an unforgettable day for me. So, I got picked up by Wiehann at around 8.30 and it took us around 2.30 – 3 to get to Gansbaai. At first I wanted to get there by my own means but if you are travelling on your own this is the cheapest and easiest way ...
Great Whites
We arrived in Gansbaai and headed to the Shark Diving Centre where they gave us breakfast/lunch. The room was full of amazing photos of close up experiences with sharks. I was still unsure about doing it. We got on the boat and sat up the top. It was very ...
Down the Atlantic Coast
We took a trip by down the coast from Cape Town to Simonstad. It was a very picturesque drive with the tracks going right along the ocean for a good part of it. We had lunch in Simonstad and toured around. We then booked a private sight-seeing with ...
Stellenboch and the Great White Shark
... ended up spending the last of their allowance money on buying a penguin house on penguin island! they now have real-estate in South Africa not a bad investment little people , not bad at all. THey love all animals and when they learned the dire straight ...
Land of the whales and the great white
We spent close to a week here away from the city. It was a breath-taking coastal town with sights of occasional Souther Right Whales in the distance. There were many walking paths along the coast but sadly, the weather took a turn for the worse when ...
Shark Diving in Gansbaai
... to the town of Gansbaai. Marketed as "The" place for great white shark viewing (just don’t ask Mossel Bay), Gansbaai has been home to numerous documentaries by Discovery and National Geographic on these predators of the sea. As it turns ...
Great White Shark
... face, eye to eye, teeth to teeth with the greatest predator of the sea, GREAT WHITE SHARK!!!!! We set off from Hermanus to Gansbaai where we took the boat out for half an hour to a deep channel between two islands Dyers Island and Seal Island. This was ...
No Sharks please, we're British
... that Bryan Habana and Minki Van Der Vesthuizen would produce (google her)and decided that quite simply, the child would be Mr/Miss South Africa in the near future. As the day progressed and conversation slowed, we tried to think of the most South African ...
The Real Jaws
A shark dive is not Sea World. On Friday, the last day of the Garden Route tour, Ed and I went shark cage diving. Great White Shark cage diving. Shark cage diving was an optional activity on our tour, but Ed and I were the only ones of ...
Great Whitesin Gant's Bay
Kahl, Paul, Joel & I are going shark diving! The car to pick us up doesn't turn up as we hadn’t confirmed the names when we were drinking in Nelspruit. They finally pick us up and we rush the 2 hour plus drive to Gant’s Bay. We are ...
You Have a Chunk of Human Stuck in Your Teeth
... ). Twice I’ve had to get up because I’ve heard lion roars and impala running. Someone is having breakfast, thought we can’t see the kill. South Africa is amazing. Read the Kruger entry for info on the Hyena that stalked me (last ...
Cage dive cancelled...boo!!
We got up at 5am and drove to Kleinbaai where we would be leaving to do out Great White Cage Dive. Unfortunately when we were about to get on the boat they were having problems with the engines so have had to postpone it till tomorrow. Never mind these ...
Yeah I did the dive!!
I was finally able to do the Great White shark dive today and it was AWESOME!!!! We had about 6 sharks around us and they seem to appear out of nowhere, one was MASSIVE!! It was really crazy as we didn't go far out to sea. They began by chumming the ...
I think we need a bigger boat!
... to how this swim would logistically take place. This commentary is also coming from the child who did not want a toy rhino from Africa, but a real one. When asked where he would keep his "real" rhino, he responded it could live in his house, ...
The Boys go Shark Diving
... needed that extra 30minutes to sleep in. Tim picked us up at 5am and we were on the road shortly after. The 2hr drive to Gansbaai (which is the great white shark capital of the world) was pretty short thanks in part to our Italian job driver. Tim took on ...
Catch and Release
... Cafe Fur Seals that reside on Dyer Island just 15min from mainland. The best price is accom and boat trip with Gansbaai Backpacker. We continued our journey to the Garden Route, Danger Point is known for the +140 shipwrecks and HMS Birkenhead that ...
Watching for Whales
The mission for the coastal route between the most southerly point in Africa and Cape Town was to try and spot a whale or two. Well that's exactly what we did - definitely one whale, possibly two, though we were never to sure about the second one or ...
Shark Cage Diving
... imagine pulling up on the boat in 'Shark Alley', the open stretch of water between the mainland and Dyer Island off Gansbaai, South Africa referred to as the White Shark Diving capital of the world. The wonderful thing about shark diving in Gansbaai is ...
Jaws
En plågsamt tidig morgon. Jag blev upplockad strax efter fem för att åka till Gansbaai, nästan 20 mil sydost om Kapstaden. Vi var som tur var bara två i minibussen så vi kunde ta varsitt säte och sova hela vägen ner. Väl framme vid den lilla ...
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