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schmik NSW 235 Posts	Posted 14/06/2011, 12:59 pm Got out for quickie today between the rain periods. Unbelievable... there were dolphins at the 1st carpark spot on botany bay. They followed me around for a while. I've seen them at boat harbor before and on the nthern beaches but never in botany bay. Awsome session! cheers mike
Kitepower Australia NSW 3875 Posts Site Sponsor! Visit Website	Posted 14/06/2011, 1:21 pm Have seen them a few times Schmik, I'm sure there are a few pods that visit and explore Bate bay, (corulla/wanda) and Botany Bay. Abyss diving reckon they saw a whale shark in the heads last week!!
gruezi WA 3386 Posts	Posted 14/06/2011, 3:32 pm It is just magic when you out there with the other animals.....dolphins ARE cool.
yeehar Austria 101 Posts	Posted 14/06/2011, 3:36 pm おいしい
LostinSpace QLD 127 Posts	Posted 14/06/2011, 4:26 pm yeehar said... おいしい Yes delicious indeed Yeehar
schmik NSW 235 Posts	Posted 14/06/2011, 4:49 pm I was thinking they come in to the bay for safety in this sort of weather.... last year when we had heaps of southerlies and oceans were a washing machine i went to boat harbor and there was NO beach. Got to the top of the hill with the access track and waves were washing over the whole area. Stopped for a chat with ranger type dude and he was telling me about dead baby dolphins washed up at low tide :( Today was very cool though. I am hooting along in 20knots of wind, I look in the water behind my back (the upwind side) and there is this dolphin about 2 feet under water hooting along with me. He followed me for 3 runs! Sweet! Steve, could you hear me calling "yeah ha!" all the way down at kitepower? mike
tightlines WA 2274 Posts	Posted 14/06/2011, 6:03 pm I had an amazing experience just last week paddling around on a SUP for about half an hour with a pod of six dolphins following me around. I just missed a classic shot when all six dolphins jumped out of the water directly in front of me, shoulder to shoulder almost simultaneously. At one stage I am sure they were all out of the water but I only got the before and after shots on my camera the other images are stored in my head.
rhinoman QLD 333 Posts	Posted 14/06/2011, 6:09 pm did you also see planes at the airport
sebol WA 623 Posts	Posted 15/06/2011, 1:38 am With a harpoon and that leash plug at the front of the board, you could have scored a wicked ride
Kitepower Australia NSW 3875 Posts Site Sponsor! Visit Website	Posted 15/06/2011, 10:03 am schmik said... I was thinking they come in to the bay for safety in this sort of weather.... last year when we had heaps of southerlies and oceans were a washing machine i went to boat harbor and there was NO beach. Got to the top of the hill with the access track and waves were washing over the whole area. Stopped for a chat with ranger type dude and he was telling me about dead baby dolphins washed up at low tide :( Today was very cool though. I am hooting along in 20knots of wind, I look in the water behind my back (the upwind side) and there is this dolphin about 2 feet under water hooting along with me. He followed me for 3 runs! Sweet! Steve, could you hear me calling "yeah ha!" all the way down at kitepower? mike We were trying to work out what that noise was, sounded quite muffled!
Jedibrad NSW 278 Posts	Posted 15/06/2011, 5:23 pm I shared tubes with dolphins a few weeks ago... eyeball to eyeball for solid hour.... very surreal
Roar NSW 309 Posts	Posted 15/06/2011, 9:54 pm Saw a pod of dolphin a few times out in the middle of botany this summer. ususaly when we were sailing from kurnell across to Sans souci, in big Ne'ers Also ran across a Bull shark about 200 meters off the beach at kurnel. And a Seal that was having a snooze just south of the runway. (weird arse seals like to sleep with 1 flipper sticking out of the water about a foot high. scared the crap out of me when i almost ran it over.) Plenty of wildlife out there :)

Jon NSW 50 Posts	Posted 16/06/2011, 12:10 am I'll look out for the dolphins. Last year i saw a Penguin between Brighton and 1st groyne. Saw a Whale over near La Perouse. It's all out there last summer got a shock form an Electric Eel too. Bull Sharks off kurnell i'll leave them for you to run over. How exactly did you run over it?
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