South Africa Day 2: Shark Cage Diving

This morning we got up and had to meet our guide outside the ship at 5:50 am. It was a 2 hour drive to the place where we were going to go shark cage diving. It was a beautiful drive. I didn’t realize how beautiful South Africa is. We drove through the wine lands and mountains. When we got there, they served up breakfast and loaded us on the boat. It was freezing outside! Cape Town’s weather was perfect but it was so cold where we were. We got in our super thick wetsuits and it was a lot warmer. The wetsuits even had hoods because that’s how cold the water was. The water was really rough but once we put the bait out a shark came pretty quickly. It was a huge great white shark! They quickly put the first 5 people into the cage but the shark swam away. Another one came soon after and it was also really big. I had a great view of it from where I was sitting but I don’t think the people in the cage saw it. They sat in the cage for close to a half hour and no other sharks came so they got out. We waited for a couple hours and moved around but we never saw anymore sharks. I never got to get in the cage so they said we could come back the next day but I already had plans and I didn’t want to ditch my friend so I didn’t go back. It was a little disappointing but at least I saw some sharks.