Holy Sharks!

Wow. What an experience. indescribable. amazing! Finally made it shark diving. Kind of glad I waited. April is the start of the high season for the sharks. Dan (Aussie) and I went out to Seal Island. This is one of the most famous islands. This is the place where you see footage and pics of the great whites on the discovery channel and other various channels/magazines. Now I know why! I saw a great white rip off a piece of fish from the bait (right in front of my face - I was in the cage at this time) and attack the decoy (fake seal) we had. Flipping awesome. When I was in the boat we saw a great white latch on to the seal. He did not do a full breach out of the water but was pretty cool - got to see his/her teeth! While I was in the cage we saw a great white that was a little over four meters. It was huge. The biggest great white Apex predators (the tour co. i went with) have seen was 6 meters. Freaking massive. It was so cool. The crew was super nice and we only had 8 people, so I got to stay in the cage for quite a while. I was in the cage with Aussie on my left and the New Yorker on my right. I did not want to be on the end of the cage. I almost forget, the smell of seal island, wow disgusting!! And just before I got in the water I saw a bunch of seal piss/shit. Yummmy.

On the way back to Simons Town, I had the most amazing experience in SA thus far. There were hundreds of dolphins swimming around the boat, along with seals and the Cape Gannon birds. It was so cool. The Dolphins were flying in the air, jumping, playing, swimming along side the boat, and seals were playing and the Gannons were dive bombing into the water. I looked out in the water and all I could see were dolphins everywhere. There were at least 1000 but I am guessing more. I can't even put into words how cool this was. Of course when I was telling this to one of the guys back at the hostel and my face was lighting up, he was like, yeah the chics always love the dolphins. I guess in my case that is true. I got a few pics but than my camera died. I apologize in advance for not having many pics. I did not have an underwater camera and it was really difficult to get good photos.

I can't believe I will be leaving CT soon. I am leaving Cape Town and going on the garden route (which is up the eastern coast of SA) starting Monday and probably won't be back to CT until a couple days before I fly out :( I really wanted to go on the garden route in a car rather than a tour bus. Pretty sure I found some random guy to go with! He was checking into the hostel and I asked him what he wanted to do in CT. He said the garden route. I said I want to go there. He said you want to go with me. This was with in about one minute of meeting him. I was like, I don't know I just met you. Well we are going! We kind of have a plan. His name is Mark (good name) and he is from the UK. I am excited go but sad to leave CT.

 Aussie before the dive

 seal island

 the cage

 you can kind of see the shark