Site Report: Gaansbai

An area rich in marine life.

Visits

2003-01-25: I went on a boat trip to see great white sharks. There was a bit of chumming of the water, and a soup shark's head was dragged around in the water. When the great white shark turned up, everyone would jump into the (cold) water in a cage to get the close up view as the shark was led past the cage. Pretty cheesy, really, but it was cool to see a 15 foot long shark all scratched up by the seals that it had been eating.

Species Seen

Kingdom: Animals (3 records)

Phylum: Chordates (3 records)

Class: Birds (1 record)

Order: Pelicans (1 record)
- Family: Penguins
- African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus)

Class: Cartilaginous Fish (1 record)

Order: Lamniformes (1 record)
- Family: Lamnidae
- Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias)

Class: Mammals (1 record)

Order: Carnivorans (1 record)
- Family: Otariidae
- South African Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)

Lifelists

Trips

Africa: Eastern and Southern