After seeing many thing in the park and its surroundings, we wanted to see the sea side of Port Elizabeth too. We found out, that there is one company, which takes people on whale watching cruises. So we gave them a call. It turned out that they didn't do whale watching at this time of the year, but that they would take us to the Penguin Island to see penguins and that we might also see some dolphins. The only problem was that the would need at least three paying customers to give the cruise, but because the boat owner "had his soft spot for the Vikings", he decided to take just the two of us on a cruise anyway.
So very early in the morning we started to drive towards Port Elizabeth and the harbour. At the harbour we met a talkative man in his fifty's, his son and a girl who voluntarily works for the company. They had a twenty people yacht with two big motors, and we got the luxury to be the only passengers on the boat! After them giving us short safety instructions, we left the harbour to the sea.
Even though we weren't supposed to see any whales we saw a pride's whale. It appeared and disappeared very quickly, but we saw it! We also saw a lot of penguins and birds fishing for their lunch. And I even got to climb on the roof of the boat and see the views from there, and I really enjoyed my being up there!
The Penguin island was an amazing place to see, even though that it was just a rocky mountain in the sea, where the penguins live.
On the way back I spotted a school of dolphins swimming in the sea, and we stopped there to see them for a while.
And just when we were about to arrive back to the harbour we saw a seal. So we were very lucky to see so many creatures living in the sea.
To see the dolphins even closer, we yet went to The Bay World, where they have fishes, sharks, dolpins, seals, penguins, snakes, crocodiles and tortoises kept in captivity.
And ones we were in the city, we went to do some shopping to an African flee market on the beach and bought some souvenirs from there.
"A soft spot for the Vikings"
ReplyDeleteThis was so funny :D Well, you were lucky ;)