Birds eye view

of the formation of a bait ball during our annual sardine run season Port St Johns, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Have you ever wondered what this crazy frenzy must look like from the air?

Here is a larger birds eye view of a bait ball in formation during our annual sardine run in Port St Johns. We hope you enjoy this short video clip, taken from our eye in the sky spotter pilot Brad.

Brad has this incredible ability to fly his aircraft, take a video or still image, send it to us throughout the day and have heaps of fun in the air, giggling at boats scuttling this way and that way!!

And as he says……….positioning and timing are key!!! – very true and wise words.

If you have experienced the sardine run in Port St Johns with us https://offshoreportstjohns.com/sardine-run/ you will know that not only is positioning and timing important, its the ability to read Nature, the birds, many animals that form part of the sardine run. We get what we call “popcorn”, when things pop up all over the place with no real direction and with incredible speed and then we get the stationary action, where things slow down to a pace that many can manage to keep up with.  This is not what the sardines have in mind, they’re smart and they like to find gaps and loopholes when they can. And then we get those days, those quiet days when we get to dive on one of our reef systems because all of a sardine…………….the action has gone dead. Or, all of a sardine, it happens out of nowhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEN4uj6cGl8

Our eye in the sky is an integral part of our operations, he covers an aerial distance in a short space of time that we cannot remotely hope to achieve in that time frame.

Our sardine run 2021 season is fast approaching and we sincerely hope to be out there again, witnessing this amazing action and sharing many stories along the way.

We SO look forward to meeting you or seeing you again.  Come and join us https://offshoreportstjohns.com/contact-us/