Dive Site Guide

The air in Vilankulo usually hits you first. Thick with salt, woodsmoke, and the promise of something wild. It’s a far cry from the crisp mornings in the Cape's kelp forests, but it has that same electric energy. We’ll ditch the tarmac for a 4x4, bumping along the beach until the land simply runs out and the dhows take over.  This is where the story starts, not in a hotel lobby, but with sand between your toes and a camera bag balanced on your lap, heading toward an island th

When you think about scuba diving, usually the first image that comes to mind is diving in warm tropical waters, hovering over coral reefs. But have you considered there might be an even more colourful dive site out there, teaming with life? Along Cape Town's shores, there lives a world beneath the waves. From the surface, kelp forests just look like floating, slimy plants, but once you submerge underneath, you will see an alien landscape come to life. In these kelp forests l

Okay, confession time. I've dived in some pretty swanky spots, places where the water is so clear you can see your anxieties bubbling up...

Of Sharks and Shipwrecks: My Journey into the Heart of Aliwal Shoal To know Aliwal is to know a wild, subtropical haven where the lines...