Waterfront Charters, as any regular reader of this page will know, are fierce ocean conservationists.
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The Modern Leviathan
Life as we know it developed in the vast oceans that surround our planet. There can’t be a literate person alive who hasn’t seen one of the myriad cartoons of a prehistoric fish…
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On the Waterfront
Vessels in the V&A Waterfront have changed somewhat over the past two centuries. The Victoria and Alfred basins were formed from the original Port of Cape Town piers, and construction started in these in 1860.
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What Lies Beneath: Not a Horror Story
We get glimpses of that underwater world when some of its more adventurous creatures hit the surface. The southern right whales, the sunfish, the occasional shark, the pods of elegant dolphins, the playful seals and the penguins that transform from little waddling clowns into astoundingly manoeuvrable torpedoes in the sea.
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Very Like a Whale
Whale watching has become an increasingly popular pastime on the shores and waters of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans that skirt the Cape. This is entirely understandable: these magnificent creatures come straight from the pages of a fantasy novel – their sheer bulk is beyond anything that roams the land, and yet they are as graceful as birds in flight and as playful as any land-based creature.
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