The most incredible thing happened to me the other day.....
A nice breeze whipped up by an incoming storm had me out around 2.30pm
out of my home break. I was heading out past the shark net to gain some ground and almost flew straight into two adolescent hump backs, approx 10mt & between 5<10T (not small), breached in front of me.
And proceeded to do all the stuff you see on the whale watch ads.
I was blown away to say the least especially when one came close enough to eyeball me.Kenamazing!!!!!!!!!!!
The experience for me was definitely the pinnacle of my 6years of kiting.
IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THAT!!!!
I still get tingles thinking about it.

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'm sure the 10T+ whales didn't feel threatened by a lowly kitesurfer.
(unless you were carrying a harpoon)

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now THERES an extreme sport! hunting whales with a hand-held harpoon while kitesurfing. the japanese should get onto that.

i did a similar thing a year or two ago... cruising out from leighton towards cables and kinda realized there were a couple whales cruising up the coast all of 30-40m in front of me :)

I was thinking about taking a closer look yesterday, a few humpbacks close to shore putting on a hell of a show. Instead I had a close encounter with a submerged milk crate while trying to avoid a million bluebottles.

I did mention I wasn't Japanese.
The good or bad thing was they were much closer to shore
than I've seen before, so
I stayed between them and the shark net.
They seem to be whale magnets as well.
Just like that buoy is a kite magnet!!!
But thats another story.
Cheers

As long as the tails of big fish flap up and down your safe, it’s when they flap side to side that you got to be a little concerned!


Have had three dolphins swim underneath my board while cruising along - that was pretty darn kewl!