After finding out late Wednesday evening that our shark dive would be going ahead Thursday we awoke after a restless night dreaming of great white sharks and were picked up bright and early for the 2 hour bus drive to Gaansbaai for our diving adventure. With a sunny day finally greeting us we were dismayed to find that the longer we travelled down the coast the darker and wetter the weather got. By the time we made it to the jetty it was freezing cold, mildly rai...

No good adventure starts without a few hiccups... Our flight was delayed an hour, after 14 hours on the plane (the last 4 of which Bec spent in the bathroom driving the porcelin bus) we had to wait in the rain for the "very effecient" airport buses to take us from the tarmac to the terminal for 20min. Our excitement at being at our new destination soon dissipated further when we had to wait over 1 and a half hours to get through customs at Johannesburg,...