African Soul Surfer

Big waves around the Cape this week. Here’s steep and deep in a serious chunk of Atlantic.
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Between storms

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Not J-Bay

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Waves have been pumping down South

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One for the boogs 🙌 local artist on a screamer at the reef

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East Coast Dreamtime

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While doing the 30 hour slog back home from the land of milk & honey, J-Bay lit up properly!

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Lions on the beach in Namibia!
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So beautiful yet so gnarly, imagine running up the point at the Donkey and seeing this kitty take off after you!!

From the BBC article;
In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast, to become the world’s only maritime lions. One photographer captured this dramatic change in behaviour.
It is an incredibly striking photo: a lioness gazes into the distance on a pebbled beach in Namibia as tempestuous waves crash in the background. She guards her prey, just out of view – the carcass of a Cape fur seal.
Belgian photographer G***t Van Malderen captured this dramatic shot of Gamma, one of Namibia’s desert lions who has learned to hunt seals to survive in the harsh environment of the Skeleton Coast. Her photo was highly commended at the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, run by the Natural History Museum in London.
“She was guarding the seal all day,” Van Malderen says, who spent days waiting to capture the shot, watching Gamma from her car. “It’s really amazing to see how their behaviour is starting to change.”
There are just 12 desert lions living along the Skeleton Coast, out of a total population of around 80 in Namibia. They have moved from the arid Namib Desert to the Atlantic Ocean in search of food, drastically changing their diet and behaviour in 2017 to adapt to this new habitat – and appearing to thrive from the change.