That would be right Iam just about to go out ,should be right if I go south of Floreat as the wind should push the whale north towards scabs.He should be pretty full by now anyway.

WOW , just saw it on T.V .... to say it's large would be an understatement!! The thing is a F$%king MONSTER!!!!!!

you can bash your beloved WA fair up your arse with your half a year season, cold weather and those fekin things

kited City Beach to Brighton, beach inspector came down and told us wouldn't be wise to go out... we did any way. Found the tail end of the carcass at Brighton when we came in. Thing had huge teeth marks in it. Seriously next time I'm taking the advice. F%*K that.

Your not alone I was kiteing at Seperation Point Geraldton today, I spotted the biggest shape i have ever seen while kiteboarding or windsurfing ever.
I would estermate over 5m easy ,just cruising on the surface right in front of me
we have had 3 whale carcass washed up in the last 3 weeks.

gruezi said...

That one sleeps at Woodies offshore after lunch.

FFS thanks for telling me.. u know how many big assed swims ive done there around lunch and dusk?!

Kitehard said...

Hi guys,

There are a few around. One of the spearfishermen in our freedive club was "bumped" by a great white out off Rotto whilst freedive spearing. It pushed him back to the boat with his spear in it's nose.

He promptly left the water and said it was longer than their 19 foot boat

Be careful!

Cheers,

KH

I hope he packed a change of daks that day...

lets hope they stay out past rotto and not close to shore

myusernam said...

Kitehard said...

Hi guys,

There are a few around. One of the spearfishermen in our freedive club was "bumped" by a great white out off Rotto whilst freedive spearing. It pushed him back to the boat with his spear in it's nose.

He promptly left the water and said it was longer than their 19 foot boat

Be careful!

Cheers,

KH

what would the vis have been like?

Apparently the vis was really good, it came up behind him and bumped him, then circled before coming in for a test bite. Thats when he raised the gun and stuck the GWS in the snout, it simply pushed him back until he bumped into the boat before it turned and swam off.

He was a pretty cool customer and a very experienced South African Spear fisher so was used to bumping into Zambezi's and GWS.

This all happened on his first WA dive after most of the guys had told him "Nah, you rarely see em" LOL.

Yep, spare daks required! He climbed back on the boat and it circled the boat and swam by close enough to touch it. Thats when they saw the head pass the bow as the tail lined up with the transom of a 19 foot boat. That'd make it about 6m ish.

Glad it was him and not me, but then again, no self respecting GWS would bite a diver with a wetty full of Sh1t...... I hope.

Cheers,

KH

As the usual crew were leaving brighton at dusk last night who was that guy with a downed white C kite about 2 ks out from Contacios. Nobody should be out that late , that far out, with a kite he can't relaunch.....especially when some blokes with a JCB has just swiped dinner [the whale carcass] from the beach and a 4m white pointer is hunting around for an alternative meal ticket.

He got in.

Idiot said...
He was in Leighton and everyone thought he is a cute wale, yeah he is that big.

I'm sorry dude, but there is absolutely no doubt that what we saw that day was a whale - I nearly hit it.. It was a humpback - still bloody scary when it surfaced less than 2m away, but it was definitely a whale.

lgfin said...

Your not alone I was kiteing at Seperation Point Geraldton today, I spotted the biggest shape i have ever seen while kiteboarding or windsurfing ever.
I would estermate over 5m easy ,just cruising on the surface right in front of me

if u were kiting im guessing it might have been ur kites shadow

Big fat healthy creatures out there still

I had a dolphin the size of a horse surface next to me on the river....if it wanted to, it could have taken me out for sure.

Saw a couple of crew self rescue waaay out from cott last night. Was thinking better you than me on that long, slow, body drag back to the beach...

Idiot said...

DJ12 said...

I'm sorry dude, but there is absolutely no doubt that what we saw that day was a whale - I nearly hit it.. It was a humpback - still bloody scary when it surfaced less than 2m away, but it was definitely a whale.

Does wales eat carrots?

I don't know if whales eat carrots.

But why do you ask? Have you seen a whale throwing up recently?