A little over an hour east of Cape Town, South Africa, we move into a series of bays, beaches and cliffs where nature is measured in whales, white sharks, penguins and sea lions. From Betty's Bay and along nearly 200 kilometers of Cape Whale Coast Route born, whales Coast, being one of the best places on earth to see the Southern Right Whale. Hermanus and Gansbaai are the main cities, the latter also based to enter a cage from which to observe the great white shark. The rest is absolutely wild, with high surf beaches, caves in South African aborigines living Walker Bay and a collection of unusual endemic flora in the reserve Grootbos. This part of the country, certainly among my favorites, has a ravishing beauty whose splashed by ocean waves breaking on a scenic trail unsurpassed which should stop. During our trip to South Africa we could not only live on land all these wonders, but also contemplate from the air aboard a four-seat small plane that flew the Coast whales.
Precisely that experience in light aircraft, from which we could even make out the silhouette of great white sharks, I keep in my memory (and video) one of the most exciting and adrenalíticos time of the trip. Fasten your seatbelts, we're going to fly Coast whales and wind gusts ahead!
Somewhere in South Africa ...
We had just barely dry after being for nearly two hours in the cold waters at the edge of Gansbaai to meet the great white shark . The mission was a success, because we could have it just a foot from our noses for a couple of seconds that still put me goosebumps, and obviously were discussing the play. It was in the car with my friend Pau ( Pachinko ), one of the members of the expedition. Suddenly a plane so light came down from the sky like paper and landed just thirty meters from our vehicle. We could not believe what was happening. It was all orchestrated by the organizers of this African adventure was a surprise that he was born in the Grootbos Nature Reserve to see the Whale Coast otherwise, from the air. Of course neither Pau nor hesitate one second to move from the seats of the car they were going to put on our helmets and fasten our belts a small Cessna that we would show the outline of the coast in an exceptional way.
The company African Wings , which was set up this racket in collusion with the local agency Adventure Africa , as does air routes in South Africa, although they have the greatest success in this part of the country, especially in the months of the year highlighting the presence of many southern right whales that congregate here during a period running from July to November and even early December. Its pilot, with more impossible british accent, told us we were going to fly over Walker Bay, Gansbaai and would try to go find the imposing silhouette of white sharks, which are legion in this part of the world as we have seen was only a while. The bad news was that we would not be able to see the whales, as they had begun their long journey for weeks to Antarctic waters. When sighting season reach dozens of them, many boards, and perfectly appreciable from the air. In fact we showed pictures taken a few weeks ago in which one takes no less than forty seven whales were distinguished. This tour is called "the flight of the giants" because between whales and sharks can not deny that we are talking about small things.
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And with the car parked on the roadside begin a flight in a small plane moved enough during the opening stages. The most complex part of the trip was to circumvent the mountain we had in front because we had to take altitude quickly. From there the thing was more calm, and finally we go to cut the coast, which from above looked so masterful. The waves tore so strongly between Gansbaai and Hermanus the white foam on makeup water haunt kilometers before a bare and barren shore where talk of the term beachfront shocking. Simply does not exist, the first line is the sand, the second and third rocks vegetation of a kind of Garden of Eden in the southernmost Africa. If land Whale Coast is beautiful, a view of plane leaves you without a word in your dictionary.
Shark in sight!
When we come to realize one of the ships in the cage as we had been seeing sharks before we started looking like crazy silhouettes of large ocean predators. It was not easy, far from it, since the device was quite moved and floating algae and branches that could lead to confusion. But it does not really take long to realize that there was not one, but many sharks. The light color of the sea (which coincidentally are too murky below) helped, and much, in this frantic mission to locate the presence of the great white shark in waters off the coast. Lonely, they are moving in search of food, very near the surface. We are talking about an animal that can reach six meters in length, so it is normal that it can be seen from up high in a clear as we were enjoying the day. I can not imagine how it must be this trip by plane in whale season ...
When at first we got Pau and the plane had between the eyes of sharks, as the alpha and omega of this trip through the air. But we soon realized that did not involve the best part, much less, of that flight. Coastal landscapes attracted our attention, were much better than we had ever imagined. We did not know what to look for ourselves window left and right panoramic that lined both dazzling caused great enthusiasm.
They were little more than thirty minutes flight for that rugged coastline, known as whales. And no one's watching, who were already far away, enjoy this unexpected gift that gave us an extraordinary experience and highly recommended in that country called South Africa, which was being protagonist of great moments, a great adventure.
Video Coast whales plane view
And if we turn these words and pictures in a video? No sooner said than done. Here you can see all this that I have told around Cape Whale Coast from a small plane that appeared out of nowhere and landed in front of our car. Prepare well for takeoff, because it is fireworks.
South Africa, as the crow flies, offers travelers a fantastic, exciting world. All of it is a track that should not remove eye. Africa hooks, Africa excited ...\
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