THE SARDINE RUN
You don’t need wildebeest for a great migration. The annual movement of billions of sardines up the country’s east coast, South Africa’s sardine run is among the planet’s most impressive natural events. Swimming north towards the warmer waters off KwaZulu-Natal, the huge school of fish draws predators in numbers. Pods of dolphins twist hungrily among the sardines, grabbing what they can; squadrons of Cape gannets dive-bomb into the action from the
