Safari Updates

Ben on the ocean: Our established pattern is to set out on the sea shortly after sunrise and this morning was no different. The weather was overcast today and we could see rain in some areas, but the beautiful sun rays shining through small gaps in the blackened clouds and creating lovely iridescent patterns on the ocean contrasting with the dark clouds and the gloomy expanse of the ocean meant that we captured some fabulous early seascapes. We were still photographing the beautiful scenery when we spotted a Humpback Whale breaching time and again not too far from us. Although we kept a respectful distance from the whale, it moved closer and closer to us and finally popped up to breach only about 10 meters from our boat. We managed to get excellent photographs as he repeatedly lifted his entire body out of the water, and then crashed/splashed down, sending...

Wim reports: This morning we were out on the ocean again shortly after sunrise, and before long we encountered a massive pod of Common Dolphin. This was very exciting for us. The Common Dolphins are usually an indication that sardines are in the vicinity. They follow the sardines, then isolate and herd thousands of the fish, forming a bait ball which they then feed on. When we caught up with the pod, we could see dolphins for hundreds of meters in all directions. This gave us a fabulous opportunity to take photographs of them jumping, breaching, splashing, and enjoying themselves. They were moving too rapidly for us to dive for underwater shots. We followed them until they swam away quite suddenly, leaving us with excellent photographs of the encounter. We were not alone for long as we found a large pod of Bottlenose Dolphins fairly close to the shore. This...