Conundrum. What has six arms, two legs, three hearts, a foot next to its head, a beak, breathes water and has two thirds of its brain in its arms?
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Unsung Ocean Heroes
This week’s Waterfront Charters newsletter is an appeal. Any person who is acquainted with our company will know that one of our most important underpinning values is the protection and conservation of our oceans.
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Blue Horizons
Those of us lucky enough to live within sight and sound of the ocean may be forgiven for occasionally taking it for granted. After all, there it is, blue or grey, every day, starting where the land ends and just stretching out to the horizon.
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Crisis? What Crisis? Oh…that Crisis.
The world is currently in crisis. Or, more accurately, humans are currently undergoing a crisis. We are looking into the face of a new virus, and suddenly our mortality stares us directly in the face: we are not invulnerable.
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Water World Wonders
The Western Cape is a beautiful place, and we will be doing our part again in showing off some of the Atlantic Ocean’s best views, attractions, sensations and – of course – wildlife.
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Very Like a Whale
Guests aboard the Waterfront Charters boats are regularly sighting orcas on our various cruises. Obviously no sighting is guaranteed, but we know they are here, and the exclamations of delight from guests when the orcas make an appearance puts smiles on the faces…
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Sparkling in Dawn’s Early Light
There is no better way to celebrate all that is phenomenal about a Cape Town summer: a luxury catamaran anchored off Clifton, one of the most beautiful (and trendy) beaches on the planet, with the opportunity to dance, relax, swim and sip.
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Beauty, Brawn and Brains
Probably one of the most spectacular sights that Waterfront Charters guests can experience is the sight of a pod of dolphins cruising effortlessly through the ocean.
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A Little Cheloniology to Contemplate
Waterfront Charters urge everyone to become conservation orientated: whilst turtles may seem a distant species to most of us, they are part and parcel of our underwater world.
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It’s a Shark! It’s a Submarine! It’s a Bathysphere! It’s a …Fish?
Waterfront Charters recommend their Ocean Safaris as the best way to get to see this amazing sea creature. They have an otherworldly look about them, and watching their fins as they wave through the water (the tell-tale difference between a sunfish fin and a shark fin: the shark’s fins cut straight through the water) and then seeing the huge round bulk underneath – incredible.
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