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Hermanus Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Hermanus, South Africa
The Cape of Good Hope Tour
This is a top pick! ... ', 'you're a star', 'hectic', 'splendid' and various other proper-sounding phrases) before we drop her off and head to Hermanus for a nice B&B. We get in late and play with our new friend Kitty Kat before falling fast asleep. The ...
Remember Shark?
This is a top pick! ... shark footage close up (safely on your couch). When we first started meeting people during the course of our trip that had come from South Africa, I always asked them if they did a cage dive. Most said yes, followed quickly by "and it isn't that scary." ...
The whale capital - Hermanus
This is a top pick! ... so celebrations all round! We also caught-up with some friends, Janine and Justice from Klerksdorp who got married in Hermanus last year. Linsday, who worked with Ryan in Johannesburg. Nigel, Marina, Pierre and Junita also joined us for a lunch ...
A Whale of a Time (Painfully Unoriginal I Know)
This is a top pick! My first stop after Cape Town was the small town of Hermanus. Hermanus is most famous for the Southern Right whales that like to bask, play, and mate in the waters off it's coast. During the months of October and November, you can see whales coming as ...
A Whale of a Time
This is a top pick! ... that is only for boats. Because they didn't slap their tails, they just stuck them up in the air! Our hostel, Hermanus Backpackers, was rather in between the New Harbor and the Old Harbor, and it led right down to the Cliff Walk. If ...
Day 9-10: Port Elizabeth - Hermanus
This is a top pick! ... to Hermanus which is famous for all the Southern Right Whales which come mate in the waters around the bay. Arrived at the Hermanus Backpackers at about 8pm - now this place was completely different to all the other places i've stayed, it holds 50 people ...
Day 11-13: Hermanus - Cape Town
This is a top pick! ... to come home too. Anyways, Alex and I went down to the Waterfront area this morning - after travelling round and seeing the real South Africa the Waterfront is about as hideously touristy as you can get. There was even a stage show going on and one of ...
wow what a coastline
... is really nice , like a typical english seaside town lots of bars and restaurants and touristy shops. We have only gone 30 miles or so from Cape town and it is day 1 , but I think we are going to like this part of South Africa, it is our sort of place. ...
Whale watching at its best
... ) and I navigated. It didn't take us long out of Cape Town to see the beautiful landscapes of South Africa. Our first stop was in Hermanus. Hermanus’ claim to fame is that it has the best whale watching in the world. Well ...
The End Of The Roads
... was also a very interesting temporary exhibition about the Civil Rights Movement in the USA, which seemed relevant, considering we are in South Africa. In the garden outside the museum grows the 'Post Office Tree' where the explorers used to leave ...
Cage diving with Great White Sharks
travelled to Mobys,leaving the boys for wine country, day one most of day wasted travelling. Met Irish lad and lass. day two, great white shark cage diving!(r800, including food and dorm). Viewing on top of cage and under water. very near to beach, blood ...
Whales and Sharks!!
... as we could (and not taking any incriminating photos!!) we headed south back to the coast to the whale capital of the world - Hermanus. It was not whale season, we where late a month supposedly, but still we were really lucky, there were loads of ...
Oct 17, 2010
Whale of a time
... Granada while studying Spanish. We had a meal overlooking the ocean and caught up on old times, and got a great insight into South Africa, as she used to work in the criminal justice system throughout the handover. On our last night we had a ...
Whale Watching
Well went out on a boat for a bit of Whale Watching and it was choppy to say the least - I felt sea sick (I wasnt though!) The Whales are called the Southern Right Wales - apparently named as they are allegedly the right ones to hunt, we wernt long out ...
Baby albino whales and civilisation
... to pack and repack my backpack for a couple of days (am so over that right now) and just relax in one place. I'm now in Hermanus, whale watching country (the town even employs a whale cryer) and I saw a few today, including a baby albino whale which is ...
Swimming with JAWS (Part 1)
... adventure was poised to end in a great gut-wrenching disappointment as angry weather buffeted the quaint sea-side town of Hermanus on South Africa's south-west coast during the final few days of our trip. It was exactly a year to the month that ...
Hermanus, South Africa
We've travelled along the southern coast to a town called Hermanus. It's a quiet little sleepy town that has quite a colonial feel and there are constantly Whales in the bay. On the way down we took a scenic drive past Cape Point (most southerly ...
Day 149 150 - SA, Hermanus - Cage Diving
... was feeling worse than before so we just pushed on to Hermanus, 100km's plus away. By the time we arrived and checked in to Hermanus Backpackers I was feeling terrible. Our room wasn't ready yet but they said I could go and lay down so in I went and ...
We got mugged...............by a baboon!!!!
... was spent pointlessly working in the rock quarry. After he was released he went on to become the greatest president in South Africa's history. The island also had the second largest colony of Penguins in the world. ...
J.A.W.S.
I headed over to the famed west coast of South Africa and met up with friend and colleague Andy. Immediately we left Cape Town and headed south for Hermanus and Gansbaai. Hermanus would be where we were staying, at a friend of Andy's ...
Shark Cage Dive & Africa's Most Southerly Point
Holy crap what an experience!!! Ever since I was little I'd dreamed of submerging into a cage below the surface to witness the sight of a great white shark. Visibility was exceptional and I took some incredible underwater pictures and video with my ...
Having a whale of a time
... your time in. The B&B we stayed in The Potting Shed is owned by another English couple who grew tired of the 16 hour working days, and living in Essex and 3 years ago decided to set up a B&B in South Africa instead, and who can blame them! ...
de Neyens koningen van de zee
Hallo iedereen, HET IS GELUKT WALVISSEN!!!! Deze morgen gebeld naar Hermanus zo'n 100km verder en een afspraak gemaakt met mijn molligste date ooit, een Southern Right whale! Om 12u op den boot gesprongen (letterlijk, het was laagtij). Iedereen is ...
Morgens Hai, mittags Wal
Am Do gings morgens schon frueh aus den Federn, der Shuttle zum Shark Diving sollte ja nicht warten. Die 800,-SAR fuers Planschen im Haikaefig inklusive einer Nacht im Backpacker Schlafsaal stellten sich als echtes Schnaeppchen heraus, da andere ...
Trialing my new hiking boots
... get to go up the mountain and not have to stay home because dogs aren't allowed or something of the sort. After arriving in Hermanus and doing the family meet and greet, Rory, Celeste, Peter and myself head through to meet up with Koos and his brother ...
Cage Diving with Great White Sharks
It was 9 am when our minibus picked us up from Hermanus. We were so excited to be experiencing the next part of our trip but extremely nervous at the same time. I was even more nervous than when I did the bungee jump at Blaukrans… For the next 3 ...