Part of the whole longboarding experience includes winter sessions, and a little bit of whale watching if you are lucky.

There's a great inititive down here, with an email alert system when a whale is spotted. This morning, there was a Hump Back down at Skenes Creek. Right nears Jordie Brown's place. www.hightidesurfboards.com/Boards.html

Humpback was very close to shore, 50m. 100m off shore were 2 Orcas (Killer Whales). They were all traveling East very quickly, and lots of flukes. Orcas gave up chase, and turned back.

I understand that Orcas need 60 feet of water to hunt in, so their sonar works properly. Plus, they are rare in Australian Waters for some reason. Average of only 14 sightings per year along the Australian Coast. Orcas were possibly interested in a baby whale... I wonder if the whale was pregnant, and if so, I bet the Killer Whales knew it.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpback_whale

No Southern Right Whales have been spotted around here yet this season.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_right_whale

That same whale is now most likely at Wongarra, just a little east of Skenes Creek.

Confirmed sighting at Wongarra...

I'm just waiting for a whale sighting a little closer to home, so I can jump in the car and check it out.

Thats a good idea / initiative Simondo - I will check to see if we have anything around here. We normally get to see lots of them up this way - you can tell as the car park is full and there are 100's lining the cliff top. I prefer it when they are coming home as they tend to be a bit more relaxed and playful. On the way up they just seem to want to go at full pace. Once when my Mum and sister were visiting when I was living in Manly we had a late breakfast at the South Curly surf club cafe and we watched a mum and her calf play about 100m off the beach for about an hour. It was amazing.

They went passed at lunch time Ted.....

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I've seen footage of Killer Whales sliding up steep beaches snatching seal pups.
Seen a few humpbacks around this year including a mother and calf on our way to Sydney by boat a few weeks back. A few years back we went out to a dead humpback that was all bloated up and drifting around on its back. I was hoping a white pointer might have been feeding on it but it was on its own. The smell was unbelievable. It was a male as well. It had a schlong about 5 feet long and that was on the slack.

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smh said...

I've seen footage of Killer Whales sliding up steep beaches snatching seal pups.
Seen a few humpbacks around this year including a mother and calf on our way to Sydney by boat a few weeks back. A few years back we went out to a dead humpback that was all bloated up and drifting around on its back. I was hoping a white pointer might have been feeding on it but it was on its own. The smell was unbelievable. It was a male as well. It had a schlong about 5 feet long and that was on the slack.

Let's just say a bunch of Noah's Arcs did manage to find that carcass and started to chow down, and for arguments sake we'll say they're all boy sharks.

Would the first one to take a bite out of that nasty big 5ft long blue veined junket gun get bagged out by all the others? You know? They'd point their fins at him and call him names like, rent boy or 666 rider or “oh ducky, who's got the ghey”?

And for that matter, if they were all girl sharks, would the first one of them be accused of being a skank or a bit of a mole, you know how bitchy they can sometimes get????!!!!

These, and many more mysteries, can be solved in the longboard room today

obct...

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smh said...

I've seen footage of Killer Whales sliding up steep beaches snatching seal pups.
Seen a few humpbacks around this year including a mother and calf on our way to Sydney by boat a few weeks back. A few years back we went out to a dead humpback that was all bloated up and drifting around on its back. I was hoping a white pointer might have been feeding on it but it was on its own. The smell was unbelievable. It was a male as well. It had a schlong about 5 feet long and that was on the slack.

Let's just say a bunch of Noah's Arcs did manage to find that carcass and started to chow down, and for arguments sake we'll say they're all boy sharks.

Would the first one to take a bite out of that nasty big 5ft long blue veined junket gun get bagged out by all the others? You know? They'd point their fins at him and call him names like, rent boy or 666 rider or “oh ducky, who's got the ghey”?

And for that matter, if they were all girl sharks, would the first one of them be accused of being a skank or a bit of a mole, you know how bitchy they can sometimes get????!!!!

These, and many more mysteries, can be solved in the longboard room today

I'm pretty sure female white pointers are bigger so they might get to feed first.if it had been a female whale it might have smelt worse. Can always count on you obct to respond to some filth.

i'll get the harpoons ready. it's been a long time.


signed makaha

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smh said...

I've seen footage of Killer Whales sliding up steep beaches snatching seal pups.
Seen a few humpbacks around this year including a mother and calf on our way to Sydney by boat a few weeks back. A few years back we went out to a dead humpback that was all bloated up and drifting around on its back. I was hoping a white pointer might have been feeding on it but it was on its own. The smell was unbelievable. It was a male as well. It had a schlong about 5 feet long and that was on the slack.

Let's just say a bunch of Noah's Arcs did manage to find that carcass and started to chow down, and for arguments sake we'll say they're all boy sharks.

Would the first one to take a bite out of that nasty big 5ft long blue veined junket gun get bagged out by all the others? You know? They'd point their fins at him and call him names like, rent boy or 666 rider or “oh ducky, who's got the ghey”?

And for that matter, if they were all girl sharks, would the first one of them be accused of being a skank or a bit of a mole, you know how bitchy they can sometimes get????!!!!

These, and many more mysteries, can be solved in the longboard room today

hahaha - dust off the thumbs green for you

I think there are lots of mysteries in the ocean that we simply don't put enough thought into solving.

For instance, how many Mullets are there swimming around thinking to themselves “why did we get the crappy haircuts?”

and why do fish smell so damned good when we know they're so damned bad for us sometimes

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale

With a bit of extended Google research, in preparation for this whale season... I have just found out there are 4 types of Orca.

Mainly identified from their white eye patch...
Type A - medium sized white eye patch - typical American killer whale.
Type B - large white eye patch - feeds on seals
Type C - thinner slanted white eye patch (of asian appearance in humans!) - this one is the Antarctic one, and I assume this is the one we would see in Australian waters.
Type D - very small white eye patch - the rarest Orca, not commonly sighted.

They are believed to be different sub species, not having bread together for around 10,000 years.

Far out, the buggers can chew through 227kg of fish per day, on average... A feast might be 400kg!

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and thank christ they aren't interested in us

Exactly Pup! ^

Saw a grey fish, about 2m long at Bells Beach today. Moderately certain it was a dolphin, but not convinced! Seemed a fraction larger, a fraction greyer than the average dolphin around here...

It's pretty special when you see whales, dolphins, seals, and fairy penguins down around here.

There were plenty of our local kangaroos at Bells today too. The specific classification is Kangus bells beachus.

The 2m fish was a Dolphis-sharkus ship-mypantis!

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Simondo said...

Exactly Pup! ^

Saw a grey fish, about 2m long at Bells Beach today. Moderately certain it was a dolphin, but not convinced! Seemed a fraction larger, a fraction greyer than the average dolphin around here...

It's pretty special when you see whales, dolphins, seals, and fairy penguins down around here.

There were plenty of our local kangaroos at Bells today too. The specific classification is Kangus bells beachus.

The 2m fish was a Dolphis-sharkus ship-mypantis!

Took me a few minutes to get the last bit , nice one mate - funny

whale there is a big one and free of charge to visit at a trendy shop in Bundall

That's funny Asea!

farken hell Asea

dont get me going

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Simondo said...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale

With a bit of extended Google research, in preparation for this whale season... I have just found out there are 4 types of Orca.

Mainly identified from their white eye patch...
Type A - medium sized white eye patch - typical American killer whale.
Type B - large white eye patch - feeds on seals
Type C - thinner slanted white eye patch (of asian appearance in humans!) - this one is the Antarctic one, and I assume this is the one we would see in Australian waters.
Type D - very small white eye patch - the rarest Orca, not commonly sighted.

They are believed to be different sub species, not having bread together for around 10,000 years.

Orca's stay in family Pods for there entire life times. Teaching there skills to the younger pups. Also the Orcas that beach themselves is only one family. So if there mothers or other older females in group were to die the younger pups would not be taught how to hunt that way. Amazing animals

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asea said...

dont get me going

going ???? - you're gone when he gets here hahahaha

Pup he gets like this when he knows I have him covered

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62mac said...

Pup he gets like this when he knows I have him covered

- awesome comeback! Brilliant! What have ya got now Asea!

Ahhh gotta love the Greenroom in full farken swing no place like it

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62mac said...

Pup he gets like this when he knows I have him covered

School him Mac, although Asea is fast becoming my favourite poster, he just keeps tapping away

^^^^
I'm enrolling

Pup, you just passed me on post numbers! This post makes us equal. Equal at dribbling on!
Mac's getting ready to go around the 15k dribble marker buoy!

If Mac had just 1 cent for every post, he could buy 1 fin from The Wiz.

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Simondo said...

Pup, you just passed me on post numbers! This post makes us equal. Equal at dribbling on!
Mac's getting ready to go around the 15k dribble marker buoy!

If Mac had just 1 cent for every post, he could buy 1 fin from The Wiz.

This is just classic Simondo - a mentioning of someones thread count and a little bit of math to finish. All it was missing was some McT chat I am a little like you in some respects Simondo - spent 7 yrs studying maths in various forms at Uni and I have this stupid thing of loving number patterns on my odometer when I am in my car - helps pass the time away. In the last few weeks I have had a few beauties 17771, 18181 and 18881 was passed this morning on the F3 just past the Brooklyn bridge. I am glad that I am not the only one who looks at crap like that (or am I)!

I have a book for ya to read "The Music of the Primes" by Marcus du Sautoy. I think you will really enjoy it.