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THE W H A L E S ARE BACK!!
The 1st Sighting of Humpback Whale was spotted just off the
St Lucia Coastline on Sunday. For the next 6 months until
end of November this is a soul-stirring 2-hour
experience to add to your itineraries.
A surf launch off the St Lucia coastline is an experience
on its own, not to mention the fact that this launch is the
1st phase of a two-hour journey to experience whales.
There are only a handful of legal permit holders in South
Africa allowed to go as close as 50m to the whales. This
relevance is of paramount importance to those wanting to go
whale watching by boat as the operators are bound by
restrictions pertaining to the type of boat they operate
and a code of conduct that protects both the animal being
watched and the watchers themselves. The law even extends
to prosecuting the clients on a boat that is
not permitted to watch whales closer than 300m.
Whilst this stretch of the St Lucia coastline is blessed
with a high diversity of marine mammals, winter months
coincide with the migration of the mighty
Humpback whale, heading northwards from their feeding
grounds - the Antarctic - to their breeding and calving
grounds off Mozambique and Madagascar.
Please also go into the web site of www.cometcorp.org to
find out who all the legal permitted BOAT-BASED
WHALE WATCHING operators are in South Africa.
Please contact Riëtte Bennett of
St Lucia Tours & Charters t/a Advantage Cruiser CC, for
further information.
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