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We are super proud to be a part of this amazing project!
16/10/2026

We are super proud to be a part of this amazing project!

🌊 VOICES OF THE BAY IS BACK!Join us on 4 November as Dr Chantel Elston and Jessica Morrison take us beneath the surface ...
16/10/2026

🌊 VOICES OF THE BAY IS BACK!

Join us on 4 November as Dr Chantel Elston and Jessica Morrison take us beneath the surface to uncover the fascinating lives of Knysna’s blue stingrays! 🐟

From mysterious seasonal gatherings to unique markings and mating behaviour, discover what researchers are learning about these incredible animals.

📅 4 November 2026
📍 66 Maplin Drive, Plett
🕕 6PM sharp
🎟️ R50 per person

All proceeds support the Plett Stranding Network. 💙

Come along for an evening of ocean science and discovery!

A big welcome to Somer Schram who arrived Tuesday from the Netherlands for a five month internship! Somer had a cracker ...
15/10/2026

A big welcome to Somer Schram who arrived Tuesday from the Netherlands for a five month internship! Somer had a cracker first few days, with yesterday’s Orca sightings in Plett, her first boat trip today with southern right whales and a few amazing sessions doing fieldwork on our beach breeding bird program.

Somer will be monitoring Kelp Gull breeding this summer, and assisting Jorn and Sorsha with the plover and oystercatcher work too!

A big thank you and farewell to Morph Minter who just completed his internship with us! Morph joined us from the UK for ...
13/10/2026

A big thank you and farewell to Morph Minter who just completed his internship with us! Morph joined us from the UK for 2.5 months and added great value to the team! We will miss you Morph!

Exciting news from Lookout Beach - we have our first White-fronted Plover chicks of the season! After a late start to th...
11/10/2026

Exciting news from Lookout Beach - we have our first White-fronted Plover chicks of the season! After a late start to the breeding season and a few early nest failures, we are excited to show the first pics of a pair of chicks we ringed on Friday afternoon as part of our ongoing beach breeding bird program.

Keep an eye out for nesting area signs, and please keep out of the vegetated dune areas and the areas with lots of storm debris - these are going to be important zones for bird breeding this season, we feel!

📸 Jesse Brown and Mark Brown

WOW, check out this incredible work of art by local Plett artist Bev Barends! Bev has generously donated this framed ori...
09/10/2026

WOW, check out this incredible work of art by local Plett artist Bev Barends! Bev has generously donated this framed original and packs of greeting cards (5 per pack) of this gorgeous pair of Knysna Seahorses to support our local conservation work.

The gift cards are available to purchase at R75 per pack of 5. Limited prints of the original will be available for sale soon, and watch this space - we will be auctioning the original off to raise funds in the near future!

A MASSIVE thanks to Bev for using her amazing talent to help us in our conservation work!

barends art

We just HAD to share these EPIC pics taken by local photographer Jesse Brown while he accompanied our interns on an Ocea...
08/10/2026

We just HAD to share these EPIC pics taken by local photographer Jesse Brown while he accompanied our interns on an Ocean Safari whale-watching trip yesterday! The group saw a single Humpback Whale and then encountered THREE Southern Right mother-calf pairs, some of which were very relaxed and approached the boat (as allowed under boat-based whale-watching regulations).

Of particular interest were three observations:

1) A gorgeous calf speckled with white. Most southern right whales are essentially black, with variable white pigmentation on the belly. But there is a well-documented polymorphism in skin pigmentation. Researchers have described several patterns, including black, white-blaze, grey-blaze, grey-and-white-blaze and grey-morph/partially albinistic whales and Jesse's pics are consistent with what the southern right whale literature calls a partial grey morph. Interestingly, genetic research suggests that almost all partial grey-morph calves are females!

2) Several pics show the mother has her mouth substantially open, with a large section of the baleen rack exposed. That is exactly the morphology you'd expect to see during filter-feeding. Southern Right whales do feed in South African waters. A 2023 University of Pretoria study documented feeding by southern right whales in the Southern Benguela Upwelling System, with Calanoides copepods identified as an important prey item. Interestingly, that study found both shallow/surface feeding and deeper feeding.

3) A calf playing in the waves, but REALLY close to shore, which they do quite often - in fact, studies show that across the cape coastal nursery area, most mother-calf pairs are found within 900 m of the shore, and are often seen right behind, or in some cases (like this) in them!

A massive thanks to Ocean Safaris for taking our research interns out each week, enabling them to learn more about these incredible animals! If you are in Plett, now's the time - get on a boat with Ocean Safaris_Plettenberg Bay_Western Cape!

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