you must have planed immediately without pumping huh?!?

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Originally posted by Mr. No-one

...I could have touched him with an erection.

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Errrm, OOOK. I understand the surname now

I did the Mistral worlds in '88, sailed near the sewerage works off Manly, NSW. We saw some big sharks during that regatta.

Saw a big manta ray beach itself on Elwood Beach, VIC. It stayed there for about 5 mins, shivering, then F'd back into the deep blue.

Most memorable was sailing at Avavlon, going back out and a Dolphin with her calf, swam next to me within a metre, both turned belly up and swam with me for about 100 metres, could see there eyes, it was fkn amazing!!!

Twas on a few weeks ago, sailing in the Mandurah Estuary a dolphin leaped out of the water about 3 feet in of me, then tracked along for a while before realising I was no challenge in the speed stakes and nicked off.

As the dolphin leaped I nearly s**t meself, which reminds me, I have seen a few blind mullets while sailing as well

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Originally posted by grumplestiltskin

...I have seen a few blind mullets while sailing as well

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Hijack...

Do you mean drunk bogans with mullet hair-dos Was this also in Mandurah

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Ha ha ha as funny as that is, no, I meant the floating turd type of blind mullet.

I was out the back at Pt Moore and a flying fish came out of the water about 30m's away. It took aim and speared straight into my leg. It didnt hurt much but i was sorta stunned.

Back when i was a young bloke racing dingy's it was not unusual for the odd fish to jump in the boat.

Mind you it never happens when i am fishing in my tinnie.

Seals......(I hate seals...fish theives!)

The ones here have an unnerving habit of laying around with 1 of their side flippers out of the water...

I see sharks everytime I sail.

Elusive little buggers: I always see them out of the corner of my eye and when I turn my head to get a better look they're gone...

Humback whales... Gnaraloo

Dolphins galore, small sharks, Turtles . Also got 'rescued' in Darwin harbour by the Sea Rescue. Apparently there was a 15ft saltie cruising nearby so they came out in their boat and gave me a ride in. Whales in Gnaraloo. And saw a Dugong in Darwin. Now that freaked me out. I had no idea what it was.

to repeat greenies post "it's amazing how much sealife..." to read you guys seeing dugongs sharks mantas etc..i only can see those doin' scuba and am amazed myself you get to see those..too bad ours is a bit murky all you see are like mullet jumping outta the water being chased by another huge fish or while at planing speed a thousand fry just rains on your sail and a few squirm on top of the board..i once 'peed' of pain by kicking away a man o war and got worst when the tentacles entangled on my right leg. i was lucky a nearby local got me a public utility jeep to drive me to the hospital with the rig still in place the next day..for bender, i read a local newspaper a yr. ago a father and son were fishing for food when a bunch of flying fish with bills struck them apparently the boy got hit at the back and lung punctured and never recovered while the other hits were thru 3/4ths plywood..damn those fish! just an unlucky coincidence...

havent seen much while sailing, only dolphins which i thought where sharks, and stuff like that, but when i was younger me and my dad would go out on the boat see incredible things, manta rays would circle the boat, upto 8 of them, sea snakes, eals, dolphins, big bloody sharks, as long as the boat, dugongs, stingrays, big cod, huge turtles, and little turtles, a school of small fish in the shape of a whale, school of tuna fighting, schools of any other fish jsut swim past, huge squid, (talking about ruler length heads, not including tenticals) saw a box jelly fish wich was a feww hundred km off of where it should have been, huge jelly;s, and just huge fish, and all the wonderfull corral up north, we would see people with there cars wich had been caught by the tide, and while fishing you would see, small fish take your hook, and that small fish would get takes by a bigger fish, than the even bigger fish gets takes by shark, oh and the most exiting thing about karratha fishing, is you get a nice 60cm long fish you fight it for 15 minutes, and all of a sudden the line goes slack, you real it in and all there is, is a massive fish head with no body on your hook, and you see a nice shark swim past looking nice and full. but since i moved to perth i havent seen anything cool like up there, besides ordinary dolphins and what used to be exiting a seal, but not anymore

Best fun crabbing i ever had was windsurfing for crabs. Clear water, so and i ropped a tub onto the board (a huge old boat with triangle salis) and because i was up so high i could see them easy. Then when i spotted them by brother would jump off and go down with the snorkle and get them. Got heaps of dem which was great fun.

Bubs