During one afternoon session in QLD with a South African friend, we were checked out by some of the local wildlife. He was not familar with the beast and after the session he held his hands about 400mm apart and excitedly asked me, "Did you see that creature, it had a head this wide, ugly face and whiskers!"

I calmly replied, "judging by your description, that was either a dugong, or my mother-in-law"

6 years ago when I was a total noob I lost my brand new board about 50m out at pinnas. I just couldn't get back upwind enough at the time and away it went.

I lost sight of it and then walked the coast from pinnas all the way down to ocean reef looking for it.

I got to the Ocean reef harbour and spotted my red board about 30m out.

I swam out over the reef to it and found that it wasn't my board.

I started walking back to Pinnas with it and the owner found me and gave me $40 for finding it.

When I got back to pinnas someone from Mullaz had handed in my board to DM and then I passed on the $40 I was given to the finder, yay!

jas73 said...

While kiting at Redcliffe, Qld last week. On my second run out i was following a girl we kite with. Just as she turned to head back in, a shark about 5ft long came spinning out of the water (thinking it was a spinner shark) only meters behind her. It spun the **** out of me to think what would have happened if she didnt turn back in.

you know i was just out of the lagoon at suttons about 4weeks ago and saw the same thing ,then happend to notice a lot of turtles in the area ,so took of back in front of beach . also seen a sting ray come out of the water an nearly hit someone in the head ,they had to duck to miss it[}:)]