I'm scared of my kite shadow

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kaleidoscope
kaleidoscope
NSW
132 posts
NSW, 132 posts
9 Nov 2011 2:32pm
It looks like a large shark moving quickly towards me
Plummet
Plummet
4862 posts
4862 posts
9 Nov 2011 12:12pm
Thats because your on acid kaleidoscope!....

i like to find that perfect angle and park the kite to provide a big bad sunshade over my me. then i can alse the sun through the kite
default
default
WA
1255 posts
WA, 1255 posts
9 Nov 2011 12:18pm
but its not
hamburglar
hamburglar
ACT
2174 posts
ACT, 2174 posts
9 Nov 2011 3:49pm
hell i'm just scared of my shadow
Puetz
Puetz
NT
2186 posts
NT, 2186 posts
9 Nov 2011 2:29pm
... years ago I had a near collision with a 4m croc while windsurfing, close enough that it thrashed towards me and hissed. I hi-tail it back to shore and meet up with a mate who is learning to kite in the shallows. As I'm standing there telling him to watch out, I see a big black mass coming for us at speed and I sh!t myself. I take off running, thinking it was the croc, its gunna get us for sure. It was the shadow of the kite

ok
ok
NSW
1089 posts
ok ok
NSW, 1089 posts
9 Nov 2011 4:52pm
you sir


are


dumb
T one
T one
NT
321 posts
NT, 321 posts
9 Nov 2011 4:44pm
ok said...

you sir


are


dumb


you sir.... havn't been chased by a croc...
Joe Cron
Joe Cron
NSW
450 posts
NSW, 450 posts
9 Nov 2011 6:54pm
Puetz said...

... years ago I had a near collision with a 4m croc while windsurfing, close enough that it thrashed towards me and hissed.


Just curious puetz, do you still kite that place?

T one said...

ok said...

you sir


are


dumb


you sir.... havn't been chased by a croc...


One green thumb is just not enough for this one.

Last season (distinguishable from this one by the presence of wind) I mistook a shark for my kites shadow.
When I came in, Phil said 'did you see that big shark out there?'

Soon as he said it I went weak in the knees, it was a huge f#@ker! and I had kited right past it.

Probably better I didn't know, would probably have home delivered it's dinner.
eppo
eppo
WA
9790 posts
WA, 9790 posts
9 Nov 2011 4:03pm
I havae to admit, I have shat myself a few times to. Cloud cover, no shadow, don't notice the sun coming out, and bam wtf is that!!
Puetz
Puetz
NT
2186 posts
NT, 2186 posts
9 Nov 2011 7:15pm

T one said...

ok said...

you sir


are


dumb


you sir.... havn't been chased by a croc...


me sir


is sH!t me pants and screamed like a little girl,





... this is dumb ... tee hee



... dumb as, you bet.

Puetz
Puetz
NT
2186 posts
NT, 2186 posts
9 Nov 2011 7:22pm
Joe Cron said...

Puetz said...

... years ago I had a near collision with a 4m croc while windsurfing, close enough that it thrashed towards me and hissed.


Just curious puetz, do you still kite that place?

T one said...

ok said...

you sir


are


dumb


you sir.... havn't been chased by a croc...


One green thumb is just not enough for this one.

Last season (distinguishable from this one by the presence of wind) I mistook a shark for my kites shadow.
When I came in, Phil said 'did you see that big shark out there?'

Soon as he said it I went weak in the knees, it was a huge f#@ker! and I had kited right past it.

Probably better I didn't know, would probably have home delivered it's dinner.


... you bet we kite this place, one of our favourite spots!
waveslave
waveslave
WA
4263 posts
WA, 4263 posts
9 Nov 2011 7:26pm
ok said...

you sir


are


dumb





lol.


ok
ok
NSW
1089 posts
ok ok
NSW, 1089 posts
9 Nov 2011 11:27pm
do u guys not know that im so tough i rust?

crocs are for making man bags and shoes
Skid
Skid
QLD
1499 posts
QLD, 1499 posts
9 Nov 2011 10:44pm
ok said...

do u guys not know that im so tough i rust?

crocs are for making man bags and shoes



Why would you cut up a perfectly good slider for bags & shoes?

mitch88
mitch88
NSW
271 posts
NSW, 271 posts
10 Nov 2011 9:58am
just keep kiting and try to out run it!
Puetz
Puetz
NT
2186 posts
NT, 2186 posts
10 Nov 2011 12:09pm
mitch88 said...

just keep kiting and try to out run it!


... thats what I do! So far so good ...
the gibbo
the gibbo
WA
776 posts
WA, 776 posts
10 Nov 2011 1:21pm
recently in "shark" bay it made me jump at least once
Captash
Captash
NSW
29 posts
NSW, 29 posts
7 Dec 2011 12:50am
Hey 'the gibbo', did you actually get chased??

Never heard of that.

I past over a 10ft Bronzy on the weekend at Ceduna, but he didn't take much notice, came back over the same area on my way back to the beach but he was gone. Nice that my first sighting wasn't the shark we're famous for!!! (Largest GW caught right here)
Puetz
Puetz
NT
2186 posts
NT, 2186 posts
7 Dec 2011 9:35am
... just yesterday my son was kiting away and in the middle of a gybe close to shore he nearly ran over a 2 foot croc!!

"Did ya sh!t ya self" I asked him and he "pfffft, what ever...!" back at me!
the gibbo
the gibbo
WA
776 posts
WA, 776 posts
7 Dec 2011 9:24am
^^ ha i bet he's a teenager right(with big nuts)

Captash i didnt see any sharks, did see the shark bay cocksucker though, he lives locally and creates havoc at the pub
Puetz
Puetz
NT
2186 posts
NT, 2186 posts
7 Dec 2011 11:18am
the gibbo said...

^^ ha i bet he's a teenager right(with big nuts)



... yep, teenager, 14.

Funny thing, when he was learning about a year ago, he wouldn't go more than 5 or 10mtrs off the beach because he was too scared of crocs, sharks, stingers ect. Now I have to tell him off for going too far off shore. He got stung by box jelly recently, grunts and says "meh".

Mind you, everything is "yeah,, what ever dude", but when mum talks he still sh!ts himself. (pssst, so do I, but don't her that)

cheers,

Robbie
ezza
ezza
NSW
561 posts
NSW, 561 posts
7 Dec 2011 8:05pm
Puetz said...

... just yesterday my son was kiting away and in the middle of a gybe close to shore he nearly ran over a 2 foot croc!!

"Did ya sh!t ya self" I asked him and he "pfffft, what ever...!" back at me!


Thats so Darwin
Craig66
Craig66
NSW
2466 posts
NSW, 2466 posts
7 Dec 2011 8:23pm
easy fix, only kite on cloudy days or at night
rickwindt
rickwindt
WA
245 posts
WA, 245 posts
7 Dec 2011 7:44pm
it always scares the crap out of me at melville when a shadow from somebodies kite goes over me.. it's already happened twice in a month that someone crashed his kite on my head while i'm leisurely talking or (probably more likely) doing the walk of shame back up the beach haha
Captash
Captash
NSW
29 posts
NSW, 29 posts
8 Dec 2011 5:42pm
such a relief to read this thread. Feel more normal now that I get freaked out regularly by my kite shadow coming my way!
Capt.Gumby
Capt.Gumby
QLD
354 posts
QLD, 354 posts
8 Dec 2011 10:29pm
Box and goes meh...???


I am weak as piss (don't respond, I know the answer) or they breed them tougher your way. I have seen some nasty box stings over my years (yes, I'm not as young as I once was) and meh is an understatement....... We seem to lose lives every now and then from a box sting from some uneducated person going for a swim.

Puetz said...

the gibbo said...

^^ ha i bet he's a teenager right(with big nuts)



... yep, teenager, 14.

Funny thing, when he was learning about a year ago, he wouldn't go more than 5 or 10mtrs off the beach because he was too scared of crocs, sharks, stingers ect. Now I have to tell him off for going too far off shore. He got stung by box jelly recently, grunts and says "meh".

Mind you, everything is "yeah,, what ever dude", but when mum talks he still sh!ts himself. (pssst, so do I, but don't her that)

cheers,

Robbie


Adaswe
Adaswe
WA
48 posts
WA, 48 posts
3 Feb 2012 11:08pm
Found this on FB, didnt find proper source so I´ll give credits to Cimeron Morrissey who posted it.





Now that would make the clear blue water in Maui abit more brownich.
Spitfire
Spitfire
WA
398 posts
WA, 398 posts
3 Feb 2012 11:39pm
Today i was kiting in dampier with a mate who is only learning. I was doing runs passed him as he was in the water with his kite down, yelling advise on how to relaunch the piece of **** M-80 and saw a dorsal fin swim right passed him. It was a 1.5meter hammerhead.I yelled out ''big shark,I'm not ****ing around get out''. My mate wasn't fussed at all. I pointed downwind and got out straight away! Massive dorsal fin on a reasonably small shark. Don't think i will kite at sunset anymore.
bobajob
bobajob
QLD
1535 posts
QLD, 1535 posts
5 Feb 2012 2:18am
Adaswe said...

Found this on FB, didnt find proper source so I´ll give credits to Cimeron Morrissey who posted it.





Now that would make the clear blue water in Maui abit more brownich.


I'm not a marine biologists' dolphin sandwich but don't whales have the horizontal tale and sharks verticle? So 'ol mate in this picture is whale watching?
TurtleHunter
TurtleHunter
WA
1675 posts
WA, 1675 posts
5 Feb 2012 12:41am
your onto it bobajob
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