In case you gaze as much as the skies over the Western Cape shoreline, there’s a superb opportunity you’d spot marine conservation photographer Jean Tresfon flying overhead.
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Tresfon has been taking to the air for a number of years now, bringing these followers of his Facebook page award-winning images taken from his trusty gyrocopter.
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Tresfon’s newest submit captured a number of beautiful pictures of all kinds of marine life in and across the Breede River space of the Western Cape.
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In his newest submit, Tresfon wrote: “Each flight I make is particular in its personal method and teaches me one thing, both about flying or the marine surroundings. However generally, each from time to time, the ocean presents me an expertise so extraordinary that I run out of superlatives when making an attempt to explain it…
“Simply over two weeks in the past, on a Saturday morning, I opened the throttle of my tiny little flying machine, lifted away from the bottom, and was immediately greeted with a panoramic view of the Breede River mouth. The ocean was probably the most unbelievable turquoise blue color, fairly probably the clearest I’ve ever seen it with the seabed seen a great distance offshore. There was not even a breath of wind and the floor was like a lake. I spent a couple of minutes serving to a pal with a photographic survey of the alien vegetation on her farm earlier than climbing over the saddle at Sandhoogte and heading for the coast at Noetzie.
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“I don’t assume I’ve ever seen so many hammerhead sharks in a single place earlier than, with actually 1000’s of juvenile clean hammerheads alongside the shoreline for mile after mile. It’s virtually unimaginable to seize this abundance in a single {photograph} however I attempted anyway and have a number of pictures with twenty or extra sharks in a single body! Additional east, close to Infanta lighthouse, we discovered a small pod of bottlenose dolphins and across the nook at Cape Infanta the cape fur seals have been out in pressure. The clear water made for superb recognizing situations and on a number of of the inshore reefs I might see each yellowtail and the reef fish they have been looking. Passing Klein Stilbaai, the jap border of the De Hoop MPA, we routed to Infanta and the Breede River mouth.
“Simply off the river mouth there was a big shoal of what I think have been noticed grunter, and on the close by Witsand important seaside a number of individuals have been swimming within the lovely heat water, utterly unaware of a big dusky shark swimming not far-off. This occurs so usually, proving but once more that sharks aren’t the senseless man-eaters the media makes them out to be. The water remained crystal clear across the Duiwenhoks River mouth, one thing that occurs solely hardly ever, and there have been massive shoals of katonkel (bonito) on the floor. A number of boats and fishing kayaks have been out chasing the motion, with these bullet-like gamefish smashing by the floor as they chased the unlucky baitfish, and the birds circling overhead for the scraps.
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“Unusually, we noticed fairly a number of turtles alongside this stretch, and likewise a big pod of bottlenose dolphins in addition to a cape fur seal charging by a college of small fish. At Blombos there have been a number of massive dusky sharks cruising proper within the shallows, and close by a big shoal of baitfish was being chased by a college of leervis (garrick). The fixed stream of hammerheads was additionally nonetheless unfold alongside the coast with one or two correctly fats and wholesome trying people to be seen amongst them. Plainly the nice and cozy water was conducive to like since we noticed a mating pair of humpback dolphins and a pair of duckbill rays that have been both mating or combating!
“Someplace between Noetzie and Stillbaai we had the privilege of probably the most unbelievable sight, a number of colleges of actually large dusky kabeljou circling in tight teams. These extremely endangered fish are nonetheless a lot prized by native fisherman and it was superb to witness their pure behaviour undisturbed by people. On the way in which again in the direction of Witsand there have been a number of spearos within the water, benefiting from the uncommon crystal clear water, and in a single case the divers have been utterly unaware of a big shark close by.
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“As we approached Witsand at low tide it was pretty to see a number of people having fun with the pristine pure rock swimming pools for a swim. Flying a bit method again up the river we landed again on the bush strip just about shocked by the expertise of seeing a lot life in such a small stretch of coast. Later that afternoon, along with Derick and Johan Burger, I had a bumpy flight again to Cape City in a rising westerly wind, however I hardly observed the terrain, with the psychological pictures of the morning’s flight enjoying time and again in my head!”
All footage printed with the permission of Jean Tresfon
