I hit Melville for the first time yesterday and the thing that struck me was the amount of weed in the water.

Launching and landing I kept expecting to stand on a cobbler, or possibly something else.

Just wanted to ask if anyone has stepped on a cobbler at Melville or any other stingy things in all that weed?

I didn't look too hard, but I didn't see anyone wearing water footwear and there were a lot of people (learners under instruction etc) walking around in the weed.

What's the risk?

if you land your kite on the road i hear the cobs give you mad respect and leave you alone..try this maybe?

oceanfire said...

cauncy said..

Kiters are officially gay

Well at least you're happy to admit it.

I remember 15 years ago sitting with my son in england watching the likes of Steve Irwin wrestling crocks and catching killer snakes, along with the late Malcolm Douglas, and thought this is where I need to live, fast forward to today where people take their kids to watch queers parading at an event called mardi gras, and people post about the threat and risks of cobblers,

I haven't heard of many cobbler incidents at that part of the river.

You do need to be very careful in the mandurah estuary. The baby boomer generation is their normal style nearly wiped the entire breeding population out and they thought that could be the end of them. (You know we have a pub down here called cobblers right?)

Then with the old netting restrictions had an effect, and about two years ago the population has started to explode. Don't believe me go down at night with a powerful light and a gidgy (oops was gonna leave that bit out )...great eating fish...

But yeh, crawling with em down here and Dave's right, a cobbler sting fcks you up.

...and cauncy is right to..

Kozzie said..

whats a cobbler...

I asked the same question 6 weeks ago,think its a small fish with a spike,bit like a stonefish or fortique fish

Kozzie said..

whats a cobbler...

A West Australian 'cat fish' kind of fish that has three prongs/barbs on its head that sting like a mofo if/when you stand on them. In light of stepping on one a few yrs back, I've found them to be a most pleasant tasting fish.....

If you want more info on cobblers - www.fish.wa.gov.au/Documents/recreational_fishing/fact_sheets/fact_sheet_cobbler.pdf

How have you got time to kite anyway??? Haven't you got work to do??

It's not the cobblers you need to worry about...... It's the bull sharks :)

We used to go prawing in the river at applex around 15-20 years when I was younger and used to all ways wear shoes so I think they only come into shallower waters out at night time...

If you do happen to step on one you will know as the agony in the affected limb will have you contemplating amputation as
preferential.
However, boil a kettle, put your foot in the hottest water you can stand and the pain will miraculously dissappear.
Contemplate a tetanus injection too.
Stood on one in the weed at Lancelin once. Spent the night with foot in bucket, as water cools, pain returns.

dachopper said..

It's not the cobblers you need to worry about...... It's the bull sharks :)

Bull shark don't have poisonous spikes so it is ok to step on them

oceanfire said..
I hit Melville for the first time yesterday and the thing that struck me was the amount of weed in the water.

Launching and landing I kept expecting to stand on a cobbler, or possibly something else.

Just wanted to ask if anyone has stepped on a cobbler at Melville or any other stingy things in all that weed?

I didn't look too hard, but I didn't see anyone wearing water footwear and there were a lot of people (learners under instruction etc) walking around in the weed.

What's the risk?

I think you'll find cobbler was almost declared extinct in the Swan not so long ago, after all the riverside bereding zones were ripped out for freeways and housing. So if you do step on one, make sure you catch it, put it in surgical spirit and note time. location, extent of injury before you hand it to the authorities who will ask you a clipboard-long number of questions about it. You can only then scream for a day in blood-curdling pain. You OK with that? Good. Carry on.

KBwhokbs said..

However, boil a kettle, put your foot in the hottest water you can stand and the pain will miraculously dissappear.

This is an example of why the internet can be totally retarded. ^^^

It's chock full of very bad advice.

If you carry out the above quote, you'll end up in the Burns Ward of the nearest hospital.

For pain relief, seek an anaesthetic shot from your local doctor.

or get your boyfriend to hold your hand , and you can get through the pain together

Yep for sting rays and cobblers what they said plus this......

Juddy said..

the hotter the water the better.

When you boil up that kettle,

you might be wise to have a thermometer on hand.

Water at 60C will cause third degree burns in 5 seconds.