We had spent 2 days in the Blue Whale Resort and even though it was a paradise for us, we actually did not see any whales ;). We had sacrificed our whole day of whale watching for this place though and had to get to Franschoek valley by the end of the day for our wine tasting tour the next day. We had time to drive there via Hermanus, the most renown whale watching spot, but could only stay there for 2 hours maximum and hope we see some whales from the shore line. It didn’t make too much sense time vice and we had learned by now that animals don’t appear just because you want to, but in the end we decided to try our luck. We arrived in Hermanus which turned out to be a really cute seaside town and walked to the shore to sit down and have some lunch. As it turned out, lunch had to wait. After 5 minutes of being there you could suddenly see people jumping up and pointing to the sea. I could not believe my eyes, there were really 3 whales coming to our bay!! We totally forgot that we were hungry and followed them along the shore and watched as they jumped out of the water and had a lot of fun splashing back in. They stayed around for almost 1 hour! We could not believe our luck, we only had a 2 hour time window and actually saw 3 whales. Some people come to South Africa and never see them and others stay around and wait for days. We felt so lucky!! Our second ocean encounter was on the way to Cape of Good Hope, where there is a famous beach called Boulders Beach that is home to a big penguin colony. The South African penguines are so tiny and cute, it was as well a real pleasure to watch them in action.
