Whale Pictures
Whale pictures are reasonably easy to come by on the shores of a
small seaside town called Hermanus about two hours drive from Cape Town in South
Africa.
The World Wildlife Fund has recognised this unique stretch of
coastline as one of the best land based whale watching areas in the
world. And with good reason...
Each year around July, these magnificent creatures congregate in the
bay below Hermanus to calve and nurse their young after a long haul journey from
the sub Antarctic.
They remain for approximately five months and if you are lucky
you might see one of them breaching like in the photo above while watching from
the twisting twelve kilometre cliff path that links the new harbour and Grotto
beach.
Nobody really knows why they jump out of the ocean like this, but it is an
awesome spectacle when they do. The power needed to propel it's sixty ton bulk
out of the water is phenomenal.
It is estimated that there are probably about 7000 of them left in the world
with 2000 of those visiting the shores of Southern Africa annually.
There really is no better place in all of Africa for a whale pictures
safari.
Win a Safari Trip To AfricaYou can
win a four day
walking safari for two in the Kruger National Park in Africa after which you can
travel down to the Cape coast to see the whales.
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