• World Ocean’s Day 2019

      #togetherwecan Protect and Restore our Oceans

      We spend a lot of our time showcasing the extraordinary wonders of Knysna’s marine environment and sharing the incredible wild encounters that we so fortunate to experience on daily basis. But for today, in honour of World Oceans Day 2019, we are shifting focus. Why? Because we know that there has never been a more […]

    • Strandloper Project

      Local conservationists tackle ghost fishing and plastic pollution

      I remember my first close encounter with a humpback whale like it was yesterday. It was the 12th of June 2014 and I was onboard the Ocean Odyssey vessel as their official photographer. We had been scouring the ocean parallel to our Knysna coastline for about an hour, actively searching for signs of our visiting migratory […]

    • Ghost Fishing

      Local Ocean Warriors Tackle the Problem.

      I would like to take a moment to set the scene… It’s a sublime summer’s day with calm seas and cobalt blue skies overhead. A lone fisherman casts his line just off the reef of Gericke’s Point, the iconic Lion’s Head standing sentinel over the intertidal wonderland which surrounds him. Suddenly, the fisherman feels a tug […]