Pelagic trip yesterday

We set off from Simonstown at 06H30, with 6 guests and a slight SE wind. It was our first trip in over a week due to strong winds and bad seas so these trip are always interesting after a bit of a lay off.

The water at Cape Point was cold and green, no good for fishing or diving. After booking out with Penguin (Penguin is radio call sign for the light house keeper who keeps you on record. All boats going into the deep, need to radio Penguin telling him, what time they depart,how many on the vessel and what your ETA will be. If you don't check in with him, he alerts the NSRI etc).
We set off on a course off 245’. There was very little life and no dolphins nor whales. We did get some good pelagic birds a bit later. I got a nice shot of an Indian Yellow-Nose Albatross.

At around 20 miles, we tried our hand at fishing with no luck. We then put the cage out. By now we had 3 of the 6 guest feeling quite sea sick, and the one youngster was very nervous and had gotten cold feet, so we were only going to dive his parents today.
The water was still a little green but viz was not bad. In less than 5 minutes,our first Blue shark arrived . After getting the divers in the water we ended up with 8 Blue sharks and 1 very nice Mako shark ( about 1.5m) which seemed to chase some off the smaller Blues away.

Conditions were very nice with a light Southerly wind of 8-10 knots, most of the day which made run back to cape Point very pleasant. On the way home we detoured past the Boulders Penguin Colony. ROB