White Shark Trust - Field Research Assistant - October 2004

The White Shark Trust Field Research Assistantship is proud to introduce you to our assistants:

Alex BROWN (Burnham, England), Trey SNOW (Wilmington, North Carolina, USA), Nicolas PADE (Nivaa, Denmark) and John NICHOLS (La Jolla, California, USA).

	Thursday the 28th of October 2004, we left Cape Town early to visit the Cape Peninsula. Our first stop was at Boulder's Beach... a fantastic series of sandy beaches with huge pink rounded boulders... home to a permanent colony of over 3000 Jackass Penguins. After a good laugh looking at these funny birds, we had a good breakfast in Simon's Town.

Around noon, we reached the tip of the Cape Peninsula, the famous Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope. We walked up to the old and then to the new lighthouse at Cape Point. The guys then walked from Cape Point to the Cape of Good Hope, where I picked them up to slowly drive back north towards Cape Town along the west coast...

On Thursday the 28th of October 2004, the South African Museum IZIKO in Cape Town opened a new permanent exhibition dedicated to Sharks, Shark World. This new exhibit was sponsored by the Save Our Seas Foundation who is very active in sponsoring Shark research projects in South Africa and around the world. Michael was invited for the opening ceremony...

Director

IZIKO South African Museum

Dr. Leonard J.V. Compagno

Shark Research Center

Chris Clarke

Save Our Seas Foundation

The team behind

Shark World

This is definitely an amazing new addition to the South African Museum... And also a world premiere as far as Shark exhibitions go - This is probably the only permanent exhibit dedicated to Sharks. Very well presented and extremely informative, Shark World is a must for anyone with an interest or liking for Sharks!!! Click here for more information...