Pippa Mozambique

A container was sighted 800m east of Coconut Bay this morning (just inside Guinjata Bay). Labels on the barrel indicate that it contains haz...

This week at Guinjata Bay it is spring tide (highest high tides and lowest low tides) exposing a rocky outcrop just off the pinnacle of the ...

The water was murky, the surge was bad and 40 minutes into our dive on Manta Reef (one of the top 10 dive sites in the world) I was happy t...

While we were in South Africa a dead sperm whale washed up in Guinjata Bay. Its appearance was a mystery. It is a small juvenile that seems...

Arriving Zoë, Chloe and I arrive at our hostel in White River, South Africa, at about 3pm after driving for 12 hours. Imminently, the own...

Woke up at 1:30am this morning to start our trip from Guinjata Bay to Kruger national park South Africa!!! Kruger National Park is the ...

A pregnant Devil Ray, a Blacktip Reef Shark and a Spotted Eagle Ray were brought up in a single gill net.  (Photos to follow) 

Juvenile Hammerhead  brought up at Guinjata

Today I met Dr Cival Mills. He has come to stay with us at Guinjata for a few days as he visits his old friends Lynn and Zelda. Zelda and Ly...

7:23am Guinjata: gill net was brought up by two fishermen. In it were two Devil Rays. One female 1.09 m wing span with baby (birthed...

Baby hammer head (9.6kg, 1.27m total length) caught by gill nets at Guinjata. A few hours later a reef manta (3.7m) was brought up in the sa...

Spoke to a local fisherman we have befriended over the past week. He usually spear fishes but he and his brother also own one gill net (40mx...

Men chant as they herd small fish into the shallow rock pools of Guinjata for the spear fishermen to catch. The catch was brought up into th...

A pregnant Manta ray was caught by gill net fishermen on Guinjata beach. It's illegal to catch mantas but the enforcement here is mini...

Stayed on Guinjata but no nets were brought up. Sadly we got news that a shark was brought up at Coconut Bay but we couldn't get there i...

Today was an early start for our first day of shark and ray surveying. Chess and I woke up at 4:50am, before the sun was up, to walk the 7km...

Methodology BE CAREFUL CATCH MAY BE ALIVE Write down the time & date    Sharks 1.      Measure the fork length (no...