Bottlenose Dolphins and the Alexandria Dunefields
By Lloyd Edwards

1. News

It could have not been more fitting. We took a film crew out into Algoa Bay to capture some footage for a documentary to celebrate Algoa Bay being declared a Whale Heritage Site. As we left port we saw our first humpback whale. This was followed by some Cape gannets feeding on the mass of bait fish present in the bay. Next stop was at Black Rocks to view the South African fur seals. We screamed through the breakers around Bird Island at low tide and made the safety of the jetty, quite nerve wracking!

Bird Island was magnificent as usual. The noise of the 250 000 strong Cape gannet colony was thunderous. The African penguins were molting and all over the place. We managed to complete the interviews in front of the gannet and penguin colonies and then headed back through the breakers to Woody Cape. We were then treated to the most amazing antics of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins surfing the waves. This must be the best place on the planet to photograph these amazing majestic animals . . . free from any form of captivity and in right in the middle of the newly proclaimed Addo Marine Protected Area.