Out on the water, junk etc.

There was a thread a few years ago and it was interesting what you guys see when you are offshore

When I was in the navy we were in huge seas half way between OZ and NZ and saw a little tiny trailer sailor out in these seas. We hailed them but they refused assistance, the Navigator reckoned they were likely drug runners (apparently popular way to get stuff in) and radioed ahead to Eden.

Half a seal...twitching!

Off Scabs, years ago I hit something and looked back and saw what I thought was a Turtle flapping. Went back and it turned out to be one of those massve Sun Fish.

Stuthepirate said...

Coming into port at 3 world countries is interesting. Dead cows, livestock etc.. then you spot a human arm. It wasn't waving hello.

Jeepers

mybrosweeper said...

Surfing Crescent Head point one day when a red coloured thing washed past me while sitting out the back.My curiosity made me reach out and grab it for investigation and found it was a frankfurt skin,and I was just round the corner from the sewage ocean outfall,dawwwwhhhhhhh....hotdog anyone? hahaha

Oh

Bender said...

Surfing black point and a seals head drifted through the line up. After that is was really uncrowded

Ive surfed there a couple of times, very spooky

Windsurfing off Warilla Beach I once saw a penguin surfacing. This was about 500 meters off shore.

Off Windang I was catching waves about 100 meters out and a fin appeared next to me. It scared the cr@p out of me but then saw it was a dolphin. We surfed a few waves together. That was a windsurfing highlight.

The other weekend we were at the headland overlooking the lineup. About 50 meters away from the surfers there was a pod of dolphins swimming north. The surfers were oblivious to them.

Went sailing at south west rocks, was off the plane heading back to shore i looked down only to see a shark underneath me, my first instinct was to bare off but then i thought it was pretty cool.
ANother time i was sailing la perouse bay, there is a old pier under which was a naked girl and a photographer doing some shots.

Had the opportunity to visit Ashmore Reef a few years back,
saw sunken Indonesian fishing boats in the lagoon,
had sea snakes check us out whilst snorkelling
saw smashed up Turtle shells on the island

Was on a ship in the Red sea overtook a small dhow packed with lots of camels on the deck, watched the crew push a dead one over the side and keep going

baseball caps (ive lost 5 and found 25)

umbrella

shopping bags

semi submerged wooden palette

semi submerged wheelie bin

upside down semi submerged tinnie hull

milk crate

tennis balls

floating marijuana leaves

broom

ladies handbag

fishing rods (sometimes with angry man attached)

rock

floating cans of bourbon & coke

small pieces of concrete

and that's just currumbin, you should see what's in the broadwater!

I was in a sea kayak paddling around Ricketts Point into Beaumaris Bay. There was a skiier in the water with the boat about to take off. The spotter (lady in a bikini) wasn't doing her job as she had her back to the skiier and myself. Suddenly she dropped her bikini bottom to moon the skier then turned around to see the reaction. That's when she saw me paddling up. She was so shocked she ducked down flat on the boat floor so she wouldn't be seen by me any longer. I didn't complain though.

Haircut said...

baseball caps (ive lost 5 and found 25)

umbrella

shopping bags

semi submerged wooden palette

semi submerged wheelie bin

upside down semi submerged tinnie hull

milk crate

tennis balls

floating marijuana leaves

broom

ladies handbag

fishing rods (sometimes with angry man attached)

rock
floating cans of bourbon & coke

small pieces of concrete

and that's just currumbin, you should see what's in the broadwater!



yer... u saw a rock and pieces of contrete floating???

Haircut said...

do they have to be floating to count?

Was plenty of floating concrete about after the flood, along with fridges, restaurants, motor yachts, fuel tankers...

Sailing a couple of hundred meters off Collaroy beach when the shark alarm went off. Most of us didnt worry and kept sailing. A kiwi mate shat himself and fell off.
His board had turned over and he was in such a hurry to get out of the water he clambered up and flopped onto the bottom of his baord.
After telling him it was just a small bronze whaler waggling upwind he tried to get off. In his haste he had driven his harness hook (they were small and sharp back then) right into the board.
When he eventually managed to free himself there was a substantial chunk of foam attached to the hook. Everyone else though it was funny[}:)]

There's a boat that parks off Shearwater quite often. Loud music, bunch of raucous men, and some naked ladies.