Today a whale has to be more valuable as a tourist attraction than its oil, meat and bones for the whale to survive. The best way to protect whales and dolphins, sharks, seals, penguins, pelagic birds and just about every other natural resource is to make them earn their own way from tourism.
The companies on this website are more than just tour operators, they are conservation organizations. Every person who pays to get in a shark cage or go whale watching or dives in the sardine run makes is a conservationist. Help preserve the incredible, vibrant and awe inspiring beauty of Southern Africa’s oceans by traveling, touring and viewing what we have.
Hope to see you soon in our waters.
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I have had a love of the ocean for as long as I can remember. It started with fishing and body surfing on beach holidays and progressed to snorkeling and spearfishing when my family moved to the coast. As an adult I sailed my own Hobie Cat, qualified as a Rescue Diver and crewed on various yachts. On a professional level I worked on a Chokka boat for a short season after returning penniless from a gap year holiday traveling Europe and much later obtained a commercial skippers license for the purpose of conducting whale watching tours in Algoa Bay. The tourism industry has been my bread and butter for most of my life. It started with my incorporating a tour company in 1995 just as South Africa was opening to international tourism. I was the first qualified field guide in the Eastern Cape and later became the approved tour guide trainer for the region. At various times I have owned a tourist information office, an advertising agency specializing in marketing tourism businesses, sat on the board of directors of various tourism organisations and a been a publisher of travel magazines and websites. I am a fervent conservationist. I have served on the Board of Trustees of Bayworld and am currently a director of Bay Action Network Alliance. I believe that tourism is one of the few effective ways of protecting a dwindling natural heritage in the face of overpopulation and irresponsible and selfish exploitation of natural resources. Sadly conservation for conservation sake is as out of date as fax machines and typewriters. Animals and conservation areas must make more money from tourism than they can from exploitation to ensure their long term survival. It is for this reason that I love working with responsible tourism organizations around Southern Africa.
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