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I'm scared of my kite shadow

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Created by kaleidoscope > 9 months ago, 9 Nov 2011
kaleidoscope
NSW, 132 posts
9 Nov 2011 2:32PM
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It looks like a large shark moving quickly towards me

Plummet
4862 posts
9 Nov 2011 12:12PM
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Thats because your on acid kaleidoscope!....

i like to find that perfect angle and park the kite to provide a big bad sunshade over my me. then i can alse the sun through the kite

default
WA, 1255 posts
9 Nov 2011 12:18PM
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but its not

hamburglar
ACT, 2174 posts
9 Nov 2011 3:49PM
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hell i'm just scared of my shadow

Puetz
NT, 2172 posts
9 Nov 2011 2:29PM
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... years ago I had a near collision with a 4m croc while windsurfing, close enough that it thrashed towards me and hissed. I hi-tail it back to shore and meet up with a mate who is learning to kite in the shallows. As I'm standing there telling him to watch out, I see a big black mass coming for us at speed and I sh!t myself. I take off running, thinking it was the croc, its gunna get us for sure. It was the shadow of the kite

ok
NSW, 1087 posts
9 Nov 2011 4:52PM
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you sir


are


dumb

T one
NT, 321 posts
9 Nov 2011 4:44PM
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ok said...

you sir


are


dumb


you sir.... havn't been chased by a croc...

Joe Cron
NSW, 450 posts
9 Nov 2011 6:54PM
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Puetz said...

... years ago I had a near collision with a 4m croc while windsurfing, close enough that it thrashed towards me and hissed.


Just curious puetz, do you still kite that place?

T one said...

ok said...

you sir


are


dumb


you sir.... havn't been chased by a croc...


One green thumb is just not enough for this one.

Last season (distinguishable from this one by the presence of wind) I mistook a shark for my kites shadow.
When I came in, Phil said 'did you see that big shark out there?'

Soon as he said it I went weak in the knees, it was a huge f#@ker! and I had kited right past it.

Probably better I didn't know, would probably have home delivered it's dinner.

eppo
WA, 9372 posts
9 Nov 2011 4:03PM
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I havae to admit, I have shat myself a few times to. Cloud cover, no shadow, don't notice the sun coming out, and bam wtf is that!!

Puetz
NT, 2172 posts
9 Nov 2011 7:15PM
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T one said...

ok said...

you sir


are


dumb


you sir.... havn't been chased by a croc...


me sir


is sH!t me pants and screamed like a little girl,





... this is dumb ... tee hee



... dumb as, you bet.

Puetz
NT, 2172 posts
9 Nov 2011 7:22PM
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Joe Cron said...

Puetz said...

... years ago I had a near collision with a 4m croc while windsurfing, close enough that it thrashed towards me and hissed.


Just curious puetz, do you still kite that place?

T one said...

ok said...

you sir


are


dumb


you sir.... havn't been chased by a croc...


One green thumb is just not enough for this one.

Last season (distinguishable from this one by the presence of wind) I mistook a shark for my kites shadow.
When I came in, Phil said 'did you see that big shark out there?'

Soon as he said it I went weak in the knees, it was a huge f#@ker! and I had kited right past it.

Probably better I didn't know, would probably have home delivered it's dinner.


... you bet we kite this place, one of our favourite spots!

waveslave
WA, 4263 posts
9 Nov 2011 7:26PM
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ok said...

you sir


are


dumb





lol.


ok
NSW, 1087 posts
9 Nov 2011 11:27PM
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do u guys not know that im so tough i rust?

crocs are for making man bags and shoes

Skid
QLD, 1499 posts
9 Nov 2011 10:44PM
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ok said...

do u guys not know that im so tough i rust?

crocs are for making man bags and shoes



Why would you cut up a perfectly good slider for bags & shoes?

mitch88
NSW, 271 posts
10 Nov 2011 9:58AM
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just keep kiting and try to out run it!

Puetz
NT, 2172 posts
10 Nov 2011 12:09PM
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mitch88 said...

just keep kiting and try to out run it!


... thats what I do! So far so good ...

the gibbo
WA, 776 posts
10 Nov 2011 1:21PM
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recently in "shark" bay it made me jump at least once

Captash
NSW, 29 posts
7 Dec 2011 12:50AM
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Hey 'the gibbo', did you actually get chased??

Never heard of that.

I past over a 10ft Bronzy on the weekend at Ceduna, but he didn't take much notice, came back over the same area on my way back to the beach but he was gone. Nice that my first sighting wasn't the shark we're famous for!!! (Largest GW caught right here)

Puetz
NT, 2172 posts
7 Dec 2011 9:35AM
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... just yesterday my son was kiting away and in the middle of a gybe close to shore he nearly ran over a 2 foot croc!!

"Did ya sh!t ya self" I asked him and he "pfffft, what ever...!" back at me!

the gibbo
WA, 776 posts
7 Dec 2011 9:24AM
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^^ ha i bet he's a teenager right(with big nuts)

Captash i didnt see any sharks, did see the shark bay cocksucker though, he lives locally and creates havoc at the pub

Puetz
NT, 2172 posts
7 Dec 2011 11:18AM
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the gibbo said...

^^ ha i bet he's a teenager right(with big nuts)



... yep, teenager, 14.

Funny thing, when he was learning about a year ago, he wouldn't go more than 5 or 10mtrs off the beach because he was too scared of crocs, sharks, stingers ect. Now I have to tell him off for going too far off shore. He got stung by box jelly recently, grunts and says "meh".

Mind you, everything is "yeah,, what ever dude", but when mum talks he still sh!ts himself. (pssst, so do I, but don't her that)

cheers,

Robbie

ezza
NSW, 561 posts
7 Dec 2011 8:05PM
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Puetz said...

... just yesterday my son was kiting away and in the middle of a gybe close to shore he nearly ran over a 2 foot croc!!

"Did ya sh!t ya self" I asked him and he "pfffft, what ever...!" back at me!


Thats so Darwin

Craig66
NSW, 2435 posts
7 Dec 2011 8:23PM
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easy fix, only kite on cloudy days or at night

rickwindt
WA, 245 posts
7 Dec 2011 7:44PM
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it always scares the crap out of me at melville when a shadow from somebodies kite goes over me.. it's already happened twice in a month that someone crashed his kite on my head while i'm leisurely talking or (probably more likely) doing the walk of shame back up the beach haha

Captash
NSW, 29 posts
8 Dec 2011 5:42PM
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such a relief to read this thread. Feel more normal now that I get freaked out regularly by my kite shadow coming my way!

Capt.Gumby
QLD, 340 posts
8 Dec 2011 10:29PM
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Box and goes meh...???


I am weak as piss (don't respond, I know the answer) or they breed them tougher your way. I have seen some nasty box stings over my years (yes, I'm not as young as I once was) and meh is an understatement....... We seem to lose lives every now and then from a box sting from some uneducated person going for a swim.

Puetz said...

the gibbo said...

^^ ha i bet he's a teenager right(with big nuts)



... yep, teenager, 14.

Funny thing, when he was learning about a year ago, he wouldn't go more than 5 or 10mtrs off the beach because he was too scared of crocs, sharks, stingers ect. Now I have to tell him off for going too far off shore. He got stung by box jelly recently, grunts and says "meh".

Mind you, everything is "yeah,, what ever dude", but when mum talks he still sh!ts himself. (pssst, so do I, but don't her that)

cheers,

Robbie


Adaswe
WA, 48 posts
3 Feb 2012 11:08PM
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Found this on FB, didnt find proper source so I´ll give credits to Cimeron Morrissey who posted it.





Now that would make the clear blue water in Maui abit more brownich.

Spitfire
WA, 394 posts
3 Feb 2012 11:39PM
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Today i was kiting in dampier with a mate who is only learning. I was doing runs passed him as he was in the water with his kite down, yelling advise on how to relaunch the piece of **** M-80 and saw a dorsal fin swim right passed him. It was a 1.5meter hammerhead.I yelled out ''big shark,I'm not ****ing around get out''. My mate wasn't fussed at all. I pointed downwind and got out straight away! Massive dorsal fin on a reasonably small shark. Don't think i will kite at sunset anymore.

bobajob
QLD, 1533 posts
5 Feb 2012 2:18AM
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Adaswe said...

Found this on FB, didnt find proper source so I´ll give credits to Cimeron Morrissey who posted it.





Now that would make the clear blue water in Maui abit more brownich.


I'm not a marine biologists' dolphin sandwich but don't whales have the horizontal tale and sharks verticle? So 'ol mate in this picture is whale watching?

TurtleHunter
WA, 1675 posts
5 Feb 2012 12:41AM
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your onto it bobajob



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