Seal Island – False Bay

About this site

Seal Island is a granite outcrop in the middle of False Bay, home to a colony of some 64,000 Cape fur seals that in turn attract one of the world's highest concentrations of great white sharks, particularly famous for spectacular breaching predation events in winter. Snorkellers and divers encounter young bronze whaler sharks, blue sharks, and sevengill cow sharks throughout the year in the island's shallower kelp-fringed margins. Water temperatures hover around 12–16 °C year-round.

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