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General NewsPosted on: Monday, 27 February 2012
When is Shark Week Discovery Channels Shark Week is a weeklong series of programs that focuses solely on, you guessed it, Sharks! If you are a shark fanatic you pretty much hole up and dont venture out the house during this week as you engross yo...
General NewsPosted on: Monday, 20 February 2012
Many tourists and wildlife fanatics visit Cape Town with their number 1 priority to go shark cage diving with one of the oceans most formidable predators, The Great White Shark. In fact tourism stats show that over 40,000 people participate in cag...
General NewsPosted on: Thursday, 16 February 2012
Intro In this next edition of six blogs we will be celebrating the magnificent marine wildlife that can be found in False Bay. The feature will highlight the mega predators of False Bay, their dependence on the bay and interconnectivity with othe...
General NewsPosted on: Friday, 10 February 2012
Persuading large gamefish to take a lure or well presented bait can be difficult at times. Now try getting close enough to these turbo charged machines without hooking them to take a photograph and you will find that this becomes an even more chal...
General NewsPosted on: Friday, 10 February 2012
PART ONE Despite Seal Island False Bay being little more than 30 minutes drive from Cape Town, South Africas 3rd largest city, one of the worlds great wildlife phenomena had remained a secret up until 1997. On the 22nd August 1997 from the van...
General NewsPosted on: Friday, 10 February 2012
The fact that Peter Bencheley purposefully chose to further heighten our fear of the Great white Shark by choosing night time as the scene for the opening attack and setting the trend for the rest of the book is significant. To the uneducated the...
Trip ReportsPosted on: Tuesday, 31 January 2012
The Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Botswana spans 55,000 square kilometres and is the second largest wildlife reserve in Africa. It is one of the most remote places in Africa and when visiting here one needs to bring all fuel, water and f...
Shark BytesPosted on: Tuesday, 31 January 2012
I dont have too much sharky news to report as Chris I have just been on a fantastic 3 week trip to The Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. We have done a number of Mako and Blue Shark trips but the highlight definitely has to be a helicop...
Shark BytesPosted on: Saturday, 31 December 2011
I can hardly believe that 2012 is already here and I hope that you all had a great New Year! We always look forward to our Pelagic Trips in December. The warm Agulhas Current normally pushes really close to Cape Point and can sometimes give us th...
General NewsPosted on: Monday, 12 December 2011
The weather report promised great conditions off Cape Point so we were really excited to head off on one of Apex's pelagic tripsinto the marine life rich Agulhas Current yesterday. The water was 17 degrees Celsius at Cape Point and at about 25 mil...
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