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Happy 8th Birthday to my boy 🥰 We are so blessed to have you in our lives. Thank you for all the love, laughs and paw punches 🤣😅 Wishing you many more years of peanut butter, chew toys, flower smelling walks, car drives, relaxing in the shade and all the love in the world 💙 Picture description: 1. Me and my boy 🥰 2. Chubbs was very excited to eat his @pupcakesdogbakery_sa cake 3. Chubbs’ beautiful birthday cake 4. Snacking! 5. 🥰 6. Enjoying his birthday gift from uncle @sunshine_nate_ 7. Chubbs’ favourite snack popcorn and some human cupcakes from his Great Grandma 8. All partied out . . . . . . #chubbs #germanshepherd #pupsofinstagram #dogsofinstagram #pupcake #pupcakes #dogbirthday #dogbirthdayparty #birthdayboy https://www.instagram.com/p/CjbDmLLK-Jj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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- Jellyfish Photo Dump - Lobed Comb Jellies and the cutest sea gooseberries. . . . . . #Jellyfish #combjellyfish #lobedcombjelly #lobedctenophore #ctenophores #pleurobrachia #seagooseberry #seagooseberries (at Long Beach, Simon's Town) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjBCiJkKtdQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Slowly emerging from the murk that is this week 😅 📷: @shamier_ocean . . . . . #freediving #capetownunderwater #theseaiscalling #breathhold #underwater #girlsthatfreedive #ocean #womeninwater (at Simons Town, Cape Town) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd_ThWaKiUf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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M O Z A M B I Q U E p2 Underwater textures. I might be a little obsessed with textures 😅 . . . . . #mozambique #vilankulo #bazaruto #bazarutoarchipelago #twomilereef #2milereef #freediving #micro #microphotography #olympus #olympusunderwater #coralreef #coral (at Bazaruto Archipelago) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdoCEN7qpDR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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You know how when someone is craving change, they cut their hair… ? Well I tend to harvest all my veggies and then start again with seeds, seedlings and plugs. 👩🏾‍🌾 Last. year I finally managed to successfully grow onions 🧅 from seeds to harvest. Onions are one of the veggies that took so much time and effort for me to get right. Onions take about 180-240 days until harvest. These bad boys were harvested after 247 days That’s 8 months and 3 days of water, sun, love and care ☀️ I even managed to get the *perfect* onion with 13 layers 💪🏾 I prepared some onions for curing which increases the period which they can be stored. I pickled the smaller ones - the red ones were sliced and pickled in an apple cider vinegar mixture while the brown onions I pickled using a white and red vinegar. A few weeks before pickling the onions, I prepared my beet harvest for pickling as well (see picture of half eaten pickled beets☺️). Instead of following a recipe for which spices to add, I just followed my heart 😌 Onion reviews: Me: (after taking a bite of the first onion) Spicy Daddy: These are the best onions I’ve ever cooked with. They are so tasty Aunties and Uncles who tasted the red onion ACV pickle: This is so delicious . . . . . #homegrown #freshveggies #harvest #harvesttime #fromgroundtotable #onions #brownonions #redonions #gardener #gardening #veggarden #veggiegarden #pickle #pickling #pickledonions #pickledbeets #pickledbeetroot #capetowngardens #capetownveggiegarden #harvesttime #agirlinhergarden #urbanfarming #urbanfarm #minifarm #minifarming #pollination #pollinator #pollinatorgarden (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/meganrose_f/p/CYo2OwMquVb/?utm_medium=tumblr

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We all know those ice cold, crystal clear Atlantic days 😍🐟 This one in particular - 9 degrees Celsius and 20m viz 🔥 Thank you @helen_walne for capturing this absolutely amazing picture of me in my natural habitat. I remember this moment very clearly because my mind was blown at these rocks and this audio ‘there’s rocks…. look at these rocks’ was playing in my head 🤣 📷: @helen_walne #freediving #coldwater #greatafricankelpforest #coldwaterdiver #snoek #kelpforest #rocks #underwater #breathhold https://www.instagram.com/p/CW_J6PuKTEK/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Proud mum to 1000+ red wriggler worms After much thought and research I’ve decided to take the next step in my zero-waste journey and have started a worm farm ✨ 📷: 1 - @summertimekyy , 2-8 @meganrose_f . . . . . #wormfarm #zerowaste #wormfarmer #compost #wormtea #redwrigglers #redwriggler #redwrigglerworms #vermicompost #conservationstartsathome (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWlZ1uLqaq9/?utm_medium=tumblr

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After years of just missing the bioluminescence. Last night it finally happened… I finally got to experience bioluminescence🥰 What a special experience swimming and splashing in Fish Hoek with the most amazing company 💙 Please enjoy these blurry pictures and @thandomazomba and my shrieks of excitement while we were playing with the dinoflagellates last night 🥰 #bioluminescence #bioluminescentwaves #dinoflagellates #bioluminescentplankton https://www.instagram.com/p/CU6qbUNKTr8/?utm_medium=tumblr

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People who feel like sunshine ☀️ #blessed 💙🥰 . . . . . #spring #sunshine #flowers west coast #westcoastflowers #flowerseason #ocean #internationalcoastalcleanupday #connectandcollect #beachcleanup #tablemountain (at Bokbaai) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUAvyUUqyHh/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I still can’t believe that out of my +10 years of diving, this was my first time diving at Castle Rock. What a beautiful spot, we were treated to some amazing conditions! Thank you @helen_walne and @kerimuller for showing me all the cool things 🥰 1. 📷: Me 2. 📷: @helen_walne . . . . #freediving #onebreath #underwater #underwaterphotography #olympus #mpa #marineprotectedarea #notakezone #olympusunderwaterphotography #greatafricanseaforest #kelp #light #ocean #girlsthatfreedive (at Castle Rock Conservancy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTuEyciq7h7/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I still can’t believe that out of my +10 years of diving, this was my first time diving at Castle Rock. What a beautiful spot, we were treated to some amazing conditions! Thank you @helen_walne and @kerimuller for showing me all the cool things 🥰 . . . . . #freediving #onebreath #underwater #underwaterphotography #olympus #mpa #marineprotectedarea #notakezone #olympusunderwaterphotography #greatafricanseaforest #kelp #light #ocean #girlsthatfreedive (at Castle Rock Conservancy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTuD0prqJYB/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I still can’t believe that out of my +10 years of diving, this was my first time diving at Castle Rock. What a beautiful spot, we were treated to some amazing conditions! Thank you @helen_walne and @kerimuller for showing me all the cool things 🥰 . . . . . #freediving #onebreath #underwater #underwaterphotography #olympus #mpa #marineprotectedarea #notakezone #olympusunderwaterphotography #greatafricanseaforest #kelp #light #ocean #girlsthatfreedive (at Castle Rock Conservancy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTuD0prqJYB/?utm_medium=tumblr

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One of the many perks of working with fellow ocean lovers are the lunch time dives and dips 🧜🏾‍♀️ On this day @aani_crab and I dived at Glencairn, this was the first time I dived at this spot. The conditions were amazing and I saw my first Coral Nudibranch, spotted by the professional nudi spotter @aani_crab 🔥captured by me ☺️ If you’re a fan of this image I’ll be accepting donations towards purchasing a @olympus_sa TG-6 😅 #Nudibranch #CoralNudibranch #underwater #underwaterphotography #freediving #skindiver #oceanofcolour (at Glencairn Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRotcrsJ56-/?utm_medium=tumblr

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🌊 Happy World Oceans Day 🌊 In case you don’t know already, I’m pretty obsessed with the Ocean. Not only because it’s so beautiful and mesmerising but it’s also a where I go to to clear my mind, get a boost of energy and the best part about it is that we humans get so much from it - from food to oxygen. About 70% of the oxygen producation on Earth Comes from Our Ocean - basically we need healthy oceans for life on this planet. So look after it and do what you can to help the ocean as if your life depends on it because it’s really does! My view and experience of the Ocean has changed so much over the last 3 years, I have grown to feel more at home in it thanks to the community of women who have created a safe space for growth, expressing and being authentically yourself 💙💙💙 #UNWorldOceansDay #WorldOceansDay #Freediving #skindiver #GirlsThatFreedive #OceanLove #ThinkOcean #OceanDecade #stwenvironment (at Planet Ocean) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP3oPl1Jz-p/?utm_medium=tumblr

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It still doesn’t feel like this actually happened! 🤯 Naturally it didn’t take much convincing to get me to jump in and swim out to these beautiful dusky dolphins this morning ☺️ Thank you @hanliprinsloo for the extra nudge, company and working your dolphin magic💙 Sound on to hear our conversations with the dolphins 🐬 Things to note: - Hanli is the Dolphin whisperer - This is the furthest out I have ever swam at Fish Hoek Beach - I only thought about sharks once - Water temp was 14°C #duskydolphins #dolphins #dolphinscapetown #duskydolphinscapetown #freediving #gopro #goprohero3 #goprohero3blackedition (at Fish Hoek Beach, Cape Town) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPYd0NBpacx/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I’ll happily do 1383927 more meetings if they all look like this 🙌🏾 I was so lucky today! I got to dive in the only place in Cape Town that had amazing viz and warm water 💦 p.s. This was really a meeting p.p.s. Enjoy all the little photo bombers 🤣 (at Two Oceans Aquarium Education Foundation) https://www.instagram.com/p/COieUggpAYX/?igshid=cm7qwr9p0mjt

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A few weeks ago @thebeachco_op went for a team building session with @sealsnorkeling ☺️ We were treated to suuuch amazing conditions and loads of curious Cape fur seal pups in the water 🙌🏾 The Cape fur seals dart around you as you explore the kelp forest. If you haven’t been yet (or if you have) I highly recommend that you book a snorkel with @sealsnorkeling . Their team of guides are amazing and so knowledgeable and their COVID protocols are excellent. p.s This is one of the few times you will see me in a wetsuit, mostly due to peer pressure 😅 This was probably the first time in two years that I’ve put my wetsuit on 🤣 #skindiver #sealsnorkeling #capefurseal #snorkeling #kelpforest #greatafricanseaforest #sealpup #animalocean #freediving #thinkocean #oceanlove #freedive #girlsthatfreedive (at Animal Ocean) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN77nEgJQqG/?igshid=16shiwrfyzaty