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This quaint little fishing town on the inside of the Cape Peninsula is home to the Almighty Harbour House restaurant, the more modest Olympia  Cafe and its fantastic - if rare - polenta, and a small lighthouse at the end of the port’s jetty that has been known to throw waves up in the air to incredible heights. Every establishment - and probably every soul - in Kalk Bay has a picture of some gigantic wave crashing on the pier and exploding upwards.

But it can also be quiet and sunny, the seas calm and crowds lazy, and there are few places with better a daily supply of fresh fish. Sea lions Cape fur seals know this and hang out underneath the hull of fishing vessels, going through the jetty via an invisible hole and occasionally getting their dinner for tricks.

This man was looking either suspiciously or very purposefully at the latest catch, in this case a row of  snoeks, the very fish at the base of South Africa’s fantastic snoek paté.

How far this all seems, right now. And how rare.


 

 Posted at 7:35 PM in South Africa:

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  • 1 - Marie says:

    « Oh wow. This caught me unaware. Big homesickness. Thank you.

    Don’t you think the seals just come in through the harbour mouth :-) Cape fur seals...

    Oh..no, you’re right. Therewas that man doing tricks with one of them. Um...that sounds wrong. You know what I mean. Yes, they did come straight under the quay/jetty. I suppose it’s to lessen force against the jetty, allowing water underneath? I must find pictures of food at the Olympia Cafe. »

  • 1.1 - Vince answers:

    « You’re absolutely right, I stand corrected: cape fur seals. What can I say, your seals are the size of our sea lions... »

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