Magic Moment of the Week: Tag and Release fishing
We went tag and release fishing yesterday and I caught my first fish ever! It was a Garrick that was about 32cm long. We tagged it as part of ORCA’s work with Oceanographic Research Institutes continued research on these interesting looking species.
Magic Moment of the Week: The Elusive Bryde’s Whale
We saw about 5 Bottle nose dolphins and one Bryde’s Whale. I have never seen wild dolphins or whales and because of this, it was amazing. The Bryde’s whale was about 2 metres away from the boat and it looked like it wanted to play with us. He was so fast, that I one second […]
Magic Moment: Siyakhula Preschool’s wonderful children
We spent a fun Thursday in Siyakula Preschool gardening and educating the children. We made Siyakula’s garden nice and new with lots of hard work, love, sweat and smelly soil! Best time of the day was to play with the lovely kids! We had lots of fun making the kids run a small track, bouncing […]
Magic Moment of the Week: Penguin Rescue
We were doing a rock pool health survey near Beacon Isle Hotel when an African Penguin washed up onto the shore just near us. One of the employees at BI Hotel informed us about the location and we went and collected the penguin. Speaking about being in a right place at the right time! The […]
Magic Moment of the Week: Common Dolphins aren’t so common
At about 10am we headed out past Robberg point and discovered a pod of Common Dolphins, accompanied by a Cape Gannets and many other birds. They were chasing a school of fish out to sea. It was an amazing site and it was as if you were part of a David Attenbrough documentary.
Magic Moment of the Week: Some of the most amazing creatures
Some of the most amazing things were found on our last SASS (River health evaluation). They are the larve of the alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies and are called Megaloptera. Looks like it is straight out of a horror flick!
Magic Moment of the Week: The most precious moments
Sometimes they give you the most precious moments, even if only for a brief second, when they decide that you are the item to be investigated!
Magic Moment: Baby Seahorses
At the ORCA Foundation, one of the chores we have is to take care of and collect food for the baby seahorses. They are born at aquariums in Knysna and we collect the babies, grow them up and send them back to the aquariums we collected them from. This helps to reduce the numbers that […]
Magic Moment of the Week: By the wind!
Over the last few days we had onshore winds blowing which usually brings in blue bottles, a type of jellyfish that stings quite badly, but this time we got by-the-wind sailors, which are relatively harmless (as you can see from the picture) but equally beautiful with their deep blue colouration.