Dive Inn | Cape Town

Port Elizabeth Dive Fest and Road trip

Carel — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:54:31 +0000

We used the PE Dive Festival as starting point for our road trip and after two years of bad weather this year had great conditions again! All the boats launch from the Wildside Boat and Ski Club. There is a festival atmosphere for the 3 days of the festival with music, food stalls and a [...]

East London Sardine Run

Carel — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:10:30 +0000

East London Sardine Run. I drove down with Mike from Pisces divers and we joined up with Chris and Monique Fallows from Apex Expeditions at East London. The 1st launch we went out of the harbour which is situated in the river mouth and it was such an easy launch which made it really great. [...]

Richard’s Supper Stage and Bistro

Carel — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:43:03 +0000

Richard’s Supper Stage & bistro A brand new restaurant has been opened by Richard Loring and Roland Seidel in Sea point name Richard’s Supper Stage & bistro. It is boasting the fact that it has a direct view of Robben island. http://www.richardscapetown.co.za/ Richards bar is decorated with photos and show names from all his shows [...]

Cape Town Autumn

Carel — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:34:19 +0000

Cape Town is experiencing the cool Autumn weather with Winter fast on its way. Thus people start to dive less because they do not want to get cold and wet;-0, or the nasty winter flue keep you out of the water and in bed. For the diving business it is bad news but on the [...]

Dive Inn Cape Town – Great dives in Cape Town

Carel — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:35:41 +0000

Cape Town Dive Inn was busy last week with courses and diving Freelancing for Pisces Divers. We did a Digital underwater Photography course, a PADI EFR course and started an advanced course. Between the courses DM duties was also done meaning more dives and fun in Cape Town. The water temperature varied from 10-15 degrees [...]

Great Cape Town Diving

Carel — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:18:17 +0000

The forecast for the past week end dives did not look good but we decided to go ahead with planned dives and dive and make a call from there. The results, an extremely low tide due to full moon on our first launch extremely high again by the 3rd and last launch. The temperature of [...]

West Coast Wandering

Rochelle — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:08:24 +0000

The West Coast of South Africa has many an unpolished beauty to share. The coastline is rough and rugged and its people, mostly fishermen, are just as tough. With a long archaeological history, it can make for some pleasurable wanderings so with this in mind, we set off for a weekend of shipwrecks. Unfortunately, the [...]

Photo’s of Cape Town Underwater & Above

Carel — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:45:49 +0000

Good day all I will try and upload a pic of everything that can be seen in Cape Town waters and some other pics above water as well. This will be a trial session seeing if this can be done and if I can link it on to Diveinn’s website and to see if I [...]

Diving with Cow Sharks in Cape Town

Carel — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:15:24 +0000

Diving with the spotted seven Gill cow sharks (Notorynchus cepedianus) Pyramid or also known as shark alley is one of our local dive sites in False Bay where we are very fortunate to be able to dive with the spotted seven gill cow sharks. The site is reachable by boat or for the adventurers a [...]

Wine Tasting @ Graham Beck

Carel — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:29:54 +0000

Blogging is a new thing I get to today. So a slow start and hopefully later one when I get feedback/reviews I will be able to up my blogging/writing skills. In the last week a trip was made to the Graham Beck wine farm outside of Franschoek for a wine and smells pairing/tasting. On arrival [...]