SARDINE RUNAFRICA

From our side of the mask

The run, as you'll see it

No stock clichés, no aquarium shots. This is the world the expedition takes you into, and the homepage film shows it in motion.

Sardine bait ball with dolphins and diving gannets
The full show: dolphins, gannets and the ball
Common dolphins hunting sardines underwater
Common dolphins on the charge
Cape gannets diving underwater trailing bubbles
Gannet rain, seen from below
Bryde's whale lunge-feeding through a bait ball
A Bryde's whale takes its turn
Close-up wall of shimmering sardines
A wall of silver, moving as one
Copper shark swimming through sardines
Copper shark, the run's signature escort
Cape fur seal darting through a sardine shoal
Cape fur seal, uninvited and unbothered
Superpod of dolphins at the surface at dawn
The morning commute, Wild Coast style
Humpback whale breaching off the Wild Coast
Humpbacks pass through daily in season
Pair of orcas surfacing offshore
Some days the apex shows up too
Sardine shoal seen from the spotter plane
The shoal from above, the spotter's view
Expedition RIB launching at dawn
06:30, Chintsa beach. Office hours
Freediver photographing a distant bait ball
Working the ball on one breath
Aerial view of the Wild Coast cliffs
The commute home

Want these in your own camera roll?

Five sea days in peak season. Bring the housing. We'll find the fish.

Boats carry small groups only, and prime weeks go 6-12 months out.