Kayaking the Cape – Hout Bay to Cape Town

Although False Bay is our `home water’ we have kayaked large stretches of the Greater Cape Town seaboard.  It is not as daring as kayaking around Madagascar etc, but kayaking the Cape is awesome and as accessible as the local beach. We are spoilt for choice with everything from mellow meanders to adrenalin fueled action interspersed with wildlife encounters to remind us that we are the visitors.
We have enjoyed a number of Cape Classics – have had incredible experiences with whales, are often escorted by seals and periodically see sunfish and otter. Sharks you ask!!!  Sorry, not on my eye-spy list. Once I saw a fin, or was it a piece of kelp?....
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Some recent short animal encounter videos while kayaking in the Cape Town area:

Otter eating a squid

Lone seal playing with a kayak