But that surfer shark attack in CPT was almost certainly in False Bay, where the surfers take those risks for the warm waves. It takes some nerve to kite there, and it is pretty much straight onshore andyway, so unless you live over there it seems pointless. The vast majority of kiters are on the Atlantic side in Table Bay, and I don't know of any shark attacks there. One does see mola-mola (sunfish) sometimes, and for a split second their dark triangular dorsal fins look like a shark. But as the above posters note, there are endless things for a family to do in Cape Town. I would include the museums downtown, obviously day trips like Table Mountain and Cape Point, plus up the west coast to a fossil park near Langebaan, and further north along that coast is lovely too. If you are there for a long time you need to travel up the east coast a bit (and stop at Witsands for some kiting if the SE is blowing there - there are huge bull sharks there, but they are only interested in the fish that fishermen are catching). I'm headed back home to CPT on Christmas day for three weeks, and if it is anything like 2010 and 2012, and it looks like it is from WINDGURU, then it will be epic again. I'm hoping Hadlow and Len10 will be around too, it's fun to watch them ride in the late afternoon when most everyone else is either exhausted or too scared.BWD wrote:well last spring a surfer was killed by a shark in CPT 2 weeks after I was there, and a croc ate a guy at Richards bay right after we got back from Durban, there were tuna jumping out of the water around me in Durban, sharks are plentiful in ZA no doubt. Mostly won't get ya though.
I'd go again in a heartbeat.
He was killed hours away nr Plettenberg Bay. Again, Indian Ocean waters. You won't be kiting there.BWD wrote:well last March a surfer was killed by a shark in CPT 2 weeks after I was there, and a croc ate a guy at Richards bay right after we got back from Durban, there were tuna jumping out of the water around me in Durban, sharks are plentiful in ZA no doubt. Mostly won't get ya though.
I'd go again in a heartbeat.
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