simmrr said..
Interesting really. Think about how it will be to see whales back to proper numbers. At Bremer Bay the numbers congregating now are amazing to watch.
Seals increasing too would be great. I come from Esperance and reading some history from early on the statistics are sobering. One single boat load shipped 800,000 seal skins.
Increasing whales obviously means a risk to boats and numbers of sharks means well nothing really if you take the right precautions. If you want to swim out in the ocean be prepared to be eaten.
I only sail beach cats and ride sups so not a real problem hitting whales for now but I could understand concerns offshore. Nice problem to have and feels good to hear something positive that we have done has lead to the increase of a wild population instead of hearing about another possible extinction.
It is fantastic to see the surge in numbers again. I'm very interested in finding out more about how we can share playgrounds without blundering into each other, there is little published information on whale avoidance.
I try to make some noise if I'm offshore, but that is just logic, not underpinned by any education or research. We were planing at night with no radio on when we had our altercation , I wrongly thought that whales could hear so well that they would easily pick out a sailboat from the surface noise .
Turns out that is wrong. Or maybe I just got unlucky and came across the only one suffering from tinnitus :)
Thankfully this was the only real damage, aside from abrasions on the leading edge of the keel.
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