Sightings is a blog of marine life sightings up and down the southern African coastline. Sardines, dolphins, whales, turtles, gamefish etc…log the location, the species, the date and hopefully a photo or video too…anyone can play…!
Book your sardines now! Sardines! Coming fast! Offshore Africa, The Sardine specialists down in The Transkei, have already started taking bookings, for their Sardine Run experience. Which is…jump right in with them, sharks and all! Make no mistake, it’s a military type operation, and Rob Nettleton and Debbie Smith, partners in the show, take it … Read more
Huge Zambezi in Umzimkulu Mouth [twitchermap] Submitted by: Sean Lange Report: Huge Zambezi in Umzimkulu Mouth For an hour or more, we watched as a huge Zambezi Shark patrolled the fast outflowing water of the Umzimkulu River this afternoon. Speculation and hope is that the huge fish, one of a few sighted in the area … Read more
SARDINES at Presleys Bay There are confirmed SARDINES at Presleys Bay, down past Port St. Johns on the Transkei’s Wild Coast. Sardine correspondent Robbie van Wijk reports that Presleys has been swamped by shoals and shoals of sardines. Stay tuned for more information. Photos to follow…Thanks Robbie!!! Presleys is not far from anywhere, those sardines … Read more
Sardine Report from Port St Johns Debbie Smith of Offshore Africa is right in on the action down in the Transkei every day, and has kindly dropped us another Sardine Report from Port St Johns, this morning. “Great Day. Loits of baitballs on the snorkel. Small red-eye sardines plentiful. Few birds but we had sharks … Read more
[twitcher-map] Submitted by: Xonalanga Report: Cewone Bird Camp in Inhambane, Southern Mozambique, has been reporting good news for birders to the camp. An African Fish Eagle was logged on a flyby here recently. It has been visiting Cewone occasionally checking the fishing and Birding conditions. Although a pair have been seen before on the lake … Read more
