Struisbaai Hawe / Struisbaai Harbour

'The charming little harbour, originally built in 1959 but enlarged in 1990, serves both local fishing boats known as 'chukkies' as well as ski boats for the flock of visitors to the town during the holiday season. On most days it is easy to launch a kayak, small boat or rubber dingy off the beach, and board and kite sailing are particularly good here...'

Stingray

Generally, female stingrays give birth once a year. They usually have two to six young at a time. While a baby stingray is still inside its mother, it grows to be quite large and developed so that when it's born, it looks like a little adult. From birth, the young stingray is able to fend for itself.

The scientific name of the stingray family is Dasyatidae.

A stingray in the wild can live to be 15 to 25 years old.

Stingrays can grow to be up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) long and weigh up to 790 pounds (358 kilograms).

There are more than 60 species of stingrays. There are also other closely related rays that include river rays, which live in freshwater rivers, as well as ocean-dwelling eagle and manta rays.

Many people in areas where stingrays live have used their tail spines as tips for spears and as daggers.

Stingrays, with their wide, flat bodies, may not look like fish, but they are. They are related to sharks, and, like their shark cousins, they do not have bones. Instead, their bodies are supported by cartilage—the same material that you feel inside the tip of your nose.