Fabulous Photos Flying Above the Cape Peninsula, South Africa

With Windguru showing red across the board (southeaster is set to scream for the next week) I thought I’d take the gap and get in a flight around the Peninsula yesterday… writes marine conservation photographer Jean Tresfon.

The morning started out overcast with low cloud but cleared sufficiently to allow for a flight.

We started with a circumference of Robben Island where several bait balls could be seen on the north side and then headed down the coast towards Cape Point.

There were a few humpback whales in the dirty water off Oudeschip and a Brydes whale near Scarborough but otherwise fairly quiet in the very rough Atlantic waters.

The Team Greenings Clipper yacht which recently ran ashore was still there, although it has been extensively cut up and salvaged. Such a sad and ignoble end to a once magnificent vessel. Rounding Cape Point there were quite a few boats out at the Bellows chasing birds and trolling for yellowtail.

Surprisingly the waters in False Bay were crystal clean and suddenly I had the feeling I should be diving, not flying! The westerly came through earlier than expected and we had a bumpy ride home along the western shores of False Bay in the lee of the Swartkop.

Once again a stunning reminder of the privilege of living in the magnificent #MotherCity.

Thanks Emiko Miyazaki Wu for the company!