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So, after having had a nice lunch on Sunday, we were back on the beach. Within a few minutes a 2nd alert was sounded and all were out of the water again…..within a couple of minutes. We were beginning to wonder about this ocean:roll:…so I decided to ask some locals if this was normal…I’m afraid the answer was YES.. for this time of the year because the sharks were migrating back to Antartica for the summer(remember it is late Spring here right now). Lucky for us! They said not to worry though, the people here have taken to naming the sharks and one who likes to frequent these waters was called Ella…
I’m really not sure if I want to be on first name basis with a great white shark:eek: We decided to only wade in the water.
Breaking headline!!!!!!!!Lothar just read the news about “our shark” on CNN. It killed an elderly lady yesterday in the same place we were on Sunday… scary.
Now I know why we aren’t scuba-diving here!!!!!!
This all has some history though…. man is once again at fault, as usual when you play with nature…. they have started shark diving in this area in the last few years…shark diving is when a diver goes down in a cage and feeds the sharks from within the cage and the shark gets thoroughly annoyed because he starts to associate the cage and the diver as deciding when he will get his food…… is there any question as to why the sharks become aggressive? Now some in the dive industry claim, one has nothing to do with the other:roll:…..these have to be divers, who have had too much nitrogen narcosis or are just too greedy to care about anything but money….or is it the adrenaline rush? Poor lady!
Yesterday at a new beach about 4 car hrs drive away from the Cape Town area, Mossel Bay, we did venture into the water but were always on the watch.
Maybe we should start looking at hostels or B/B with pools:shock:

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