WHERE TO STAY IN PONTA DO OURO?
Back To Basics Adventures have selected 3 different accommodation options for their diving clients. Accommodation that they have verified and check out them selfs. They are all located within walking distance from the Dive Center and in approxomity of Restaurants and Super Markets. Two of the establishments require 4x4 vehicle to get there.
Sometimes the staggering number of coincidences required for an animal's life cycle to succeed defy belief.
The primary reactions people have to my saying I dive in Cape Town are either: But what about sharks? or Don't you get cold?
Once a mating pair is established, and during the whole of the male's pregnancy, the female will visit daily and the pair will dance together.
An animal that is 98% water is not the obvious suspect to threaten an aircraft carrier. But it happened. Brainless wanderers don't seem likely to capsize a fishing trawler. But they do. A soft bag of jelly with no teeth doesn't spring to mind as the most dangerous beast in the ocean. But so it is.
Some are as tiny as a pea; others have a leg span of 4m... Crabs are fascinating as they are, well, crabby. Naturalist Georgina Jones reveals some interesting facts about these, side-stepping marine soldiers.
But sand isn't always boring. And in some places, sand diving offers a chance to observe some of the few pristine marine communities left in the ocean...