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Runaway close encounter of the fish kind

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Created by tilldark > 9 months ago, 20 Feb 2012
tilldark
QLD, 275 posts
20 Feb 2012 8:28PM
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Haircut
QLD, 6491 posts
20 Feb 2012 8:40PM
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phew....it's a dolphin

sausage
QLD, 4873 posts
20 Feb 2012 8:40PM
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Yes from about 1.20 you can make it out. Good way to cure your constipation. Have seen a few reefies in my time but nothing of note like that.

lee1972
QLD, 921 posts
20 Feb 2012 9:29PM
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Suprised you didnt destroy it kurt you pretty much wreck everything else

tilldark
QLD, 275 posts
20 Feb 2012 10:37PM
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Yeah thanks Lee I broke my boom the following day and another set of harness lines. Time for a diet!! I hear being eaten by a shark is a good way to lose weight [}:)]

Actually that shark was pretty big it was just below the surface but i got a decent look at it. Passed about a metre from me looked really bloody wide

Carindale
QLD, 331 posts
20 Feb 2012 11:22PM
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Lucky the water at Manly is too murky to see anything, or is that a bad thing?

ikw777
QLD, 2995 posts
20 Feb 2012 11:39PM
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Nice one Curtis. We're seeing a few of them this year.

lee1972
QLD, 921 posts
21 Feb 2012 6:21AM
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Seen any at red this year Ian?

ikw777 said...

Nice one Curtis. We're seeing a few of them this year.


lee1972
QLD, 921 posts
21 Feb 2012 6:24AM
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Blimey mate, another boom! thought i was bad destroying fins. Going to try and have a short sail this weekend up the sc, you keen?

tilldark said...

Yeah thanks Lee I broke my boom the following day and another set of harness lines. Time for a diet!! I hear being eaten by a shark is a good way to lose weight [}:)]

Actually that shark was pretty big it was just below the surface but i got a decent look at it. Passed about a metre from me looked really bloody wide



tilldark
QLD, 275 posts
21 Feb 2012 9:57AM
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lee1972 said...

Blimey mate, another boom! thought i was bad destroying fins. Going to try and have a short sail this weekend up the sc, you keen?
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Sounds good, pray for wind! Oh also I broke a CAM on my 8.5 as well so will have to get that sorted to sail SC

ikw777
QLD, 2995 posts
21 Feb 2012 12:57PM
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lee1972 said...

Seen any at red this year Ian?
ikw777 said...

Nice one Curtis. We're seeing a few of them this year.





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ggh
VIC, 190 posts
21 Feb 2012 10:40PM
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Last time I help you fix a boom in shark infested waters

qldnacra
QLD, 455 posts
22 Feb 2012 11:20AM
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Told my missus about the so called Shearwater shark that had been sighted about 4 times previously to this in the last month. Some were thinking it was a bit of an urban myth. Now there is some proof. She looked at me and said "good luck" and said she wants me to take out life insurance for some reason.
I'm a glass half full sort of guy so i think it just makes one work on quicker water starts and better chop hops

Troyrotor
QLD, 318 posts
22 Feb 2012 8:47PM
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I was hoping it stayed away from crab island, i hate falling in the water on the edge of the bank so much. The water has such a sharky tinge to it.

qldnacra
QLD, 455 posts
23 Feb 2012 1:34AM
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Troyrotor said...

I was hoping it stayed away from crab island, i hate falling in the water on the edge of the bank so much. The water has such a sharky tinge to it.


Simple dood put that bloody kite away and windsurf again. At least you can jump up on top of the board until 'The Noah" passes and not just hang there looking like a tasty little snack for the local wild life

Troyrotor
QLD, 318 posts
23 Feb 2012 12:04PM
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very true. with the kite im forced to look tough and not scared, (well as tough as a kiter can look haha) but with the windsurfer there is nothing stopping me looking like a little pansie jumping out of the water to uphaul everytime i crash.

dont you hate swimming your sail around to water start and you kick something that never feels like sand?

Richiefish
QLD, 5612 posts
9 Mar 2012 10:35PM
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mmmmmmmmm big.



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