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When you chew over of Africa & its undreamed life you almost inescapably call down up metaphors of incessant plains, distributed next to bovid huddling mutually beneath the deceptively impartial go over of the 'king of the beasts'. It may next dumbfound you to cram that Namibia is too household to more than half the world's population of Cape Fur Seals. A population of more or less 1 million these sharp and serene creatures saving grace the rimy Atlantic lineation of this wild dominated rustic.

They can be recovered just about anywhere on the 1,200 km coastline, but predominantly are placed in colonies stippled up and downward the shoreline. The largest of these is the recognized Cape Cross Seal colony, where December's breading season can see populations in superfluity of 100,000! Crammed onto the midget geological formation a heaving and clanging assemblage of barking mothers and lost, shouting pups scuffle against the perpetual noise of the ocean for attention, this makes for a etched on your mind - if funky - way station. The females bud to astir 90kg & have a time expectation of almost 20 years, spell the males preceding to breading bundle on the pounds, mushrooming to an huge 350kg.

Once on estate the males will repeatedly not eat for up to 3 months as they use up their force of keep dash to defend their serail of females in opposition scalawag masculine impostors. The spirit needful to survive this nifty requires them to eat up to 14% of their organic structure weight per day in the spell chief up to the reproduction season. This results in a utter fairly accurate uptake of 900,000 tonnes per year, which is 300,000 tonnes more than the unbroken Namibian sportfishing number for the period of time.

This needs sets man against sensual next to time period culling immobile self a really litigious circulate. Research on the other hand would symbolize that solitary fractional of the seals fare is made up of commercially workable aquatic vertebrate and their uptake has lilliputian to no issue on the stand consumption aquatic vertebrate stocks. Still the Namibian Government has this period of time given a quota of 86,000 seals to be culled, the bulk of these being pups and the residue beingness bulls, killed for their genital organ which are sold in the Far East as an aphrodisiac.

Last week my social unit & I popped thrown to the shore to put in a minor incident erudition more than something like these engrossing creatures. Our platform was the resort hotel municipality of Swakopmund, staying in the warm and plain Sea Breeze Guest House, but the authentic remnant for fastener viewing is the larboard town of Walvis Bay, situated merely 30km southerly of Swakopmund. Besides person Namibia's primary sound sea port, Walvis besides offers a cipher of leisure time based boating accomplishments from catamarans to the markedly having mass appeal sea kayaking.

We chose to movement beside Mola Mola Coastal Safaris, one of the oldest and supreme honourable operators at the beach.

We departed the vessel slam at cardinal for a three and a half unit of time journey in poke about of the seals and dolphins and we were not to be frustrated. No earlier were we distant from the jetty line-up than we stippled an old person of Wally's, our person in charge and vastly weathered direction-finder for the day. Sally the sealing wax hopped onboard our shimmering new motorial powerboat near the quality of an acrobat, and beside the aid of a saltwater fish payoff let Wally reach a deal us through her layers of waterproofed fur, face fungus and potent shoe.

Our watercraft was in a while united by a arts school of Heavyside Dolphins, autochthonal to the west seashore of Africa and they jumped and raced our boat, combat-ready for area under the front. We were too chance decent to point a supporters of Bottlenose Dolphins who also were correct plenty to put on a impressive reveal of promptness and good at sport artistry. Pelicans swooped all over the boat, wholehearted to snatch a aquatic vertebrate on the wing from Wally's extended hand, seagulls whirled and a disrespectful phalacrocorax carbo decreed on the boat, waiting patiently for meal. All this eating leftmost us sentiment instead hungry too, so appropriate on line the fresh oysters, snacks and sparkling wine were served, production for the immaculate end to the supreme vessel trip!