Seal cruise from Hout Bay

Just after x mas we drove to Hout Bay and went on an 1 1/2 hour cruise to sea some seals and a shipwreck. You could smell the suckers way before we saw them, yuck!



















We learned this is a group of mainly bachelor males just lazing around eating and sleeping waiting to become old enough to go and mate.








They life their flippers in the air to try to cool down.









These pics are purely for Francis. Who else can appreciate this crane?
It crashed here in 1994 after a freak storm while being towed into Cape Town for a retrofit. It was deemed irreparable so they left it. I think they said it was capable of lifting (craning?) 13, 000 tonnes! Or some similar crazy amount...