Had an interesting experience a little while back.
While kiting alone along a beach front backing onto a nature reserve I had a huge sea eagle join me. He sat just off my kite wingtip for about 10 minutes riding the updraught, wings motionless. I cruised back and forth trying not to move the kite too much so as not to spook him. He just sat there looking for food.
It gives you a warm fuzzy feeling. Has anyone had a similar experience?
Yeah, cool huh. As a beginner there was this sea eagal that would often do the same with my kite as i did the walk of shame. (kite movement, may have been a bit hectic whilst in the water). I think it made me take longer to stay up wind as i enjoyed the relaxing walk back up the beach so often. ahhh nature.
My experience was Sea Eagle related ... I was live bait fishing from my boat in Jervis Bay a few years ago ... my reel started spewing out line at a great rate, I thought I had a Marlin on 
... turned out that a Sea Eagle had grabbed my live fish and was flying away with it 
I was worried about the hooks but the eagle dropped it after 100m ...
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Steve reckons he accidently decapitated a seagull in flight with his lines. Ahh!
kiteing with the whales is always good for a warm fuzzy, recently had a good time with a couple a whales breaching an stuff,I got real close up behind them and just hung out with tem for a while and then went in front to see what they would do, but spooked them an they went down, very cool
spraying dogs is a bit of fun too when they run after you, some owners are not so good about it even though the dogs enjoy it
I've had a couple of dophins speeding along beside me,so close that after a while it went from "how cool is this" to "holy crap,thats a bit too close guys".
They were flying alone in front of me ,then following me then cruising straight under me.
I think they were having as much fun as me.awsome
I've been kiting with pelicans flying around me in safety bay
with 5 dolphins for 20 minutes 200m off the beach of port douglas, they didn't do anything, maybe because there was a baby dolphin, with his mother in the group.
I've seen a big turtle (1m20) in lizard island lagoon, I stoped, it looked at me, then put it's head underwater and hit the surface with it's fins before leaving.
I chased fishes there, sting ray, parrot fishes...
that's a great feeling to see wild life when you kite.
Back in my windsurfing days while out near Exmouth,
WA - I was on a port reach heading out to sea when 200m in front of me lept a huge marlin -
It fully made it all the way out of the water and seemed to turn it's head from side to side taking me into it's view.
At this point the sun shone directly onto his eye and then reflected straight to me.
It was like we had a super natural connection for the briefest of time.
21 years latter and the memory is still vivid.
No wonder we love these water sports so much.
I've had the sea eagles glide above me and heaps of other birds like pelicans and cranes just glide past just above the water and slightly deviate their path, as I did to avoid them, but since windsurfing and kiting is quiet and gliding along (not too windy at time) they didn't even get freaked out (like they normally do with humans), they just though I was a water/air creature like them
I had a flying fish jump out of the water in front of me and fly a long way ahead before diving. I had no idea they were so fast and flew so far.
Apparently they are everywhere.
Nowhere near as cool as everyone elses stories...
Whilst doing a senior first aid course for my skippers ticket I saw footage of a deckhand on a boat with a flying fish protruding from his eye socket (they have a rather sharp beak like mouth) and with the amount I have seen whilst kiting have wondered about the possibility of this happening to a kiter.
I've seen heaps of things especially in the northern waters, sharks, turtles, dolphins, flying fish etc.,a couple of encounters that stick in my mind are.
A closer than expected encounter with a seal on a downwinder in Perth at Watermans. I actually bumped into it when it surfaced right in front of me.
Recently whilst kiting at Exmouth there were heaps of turtles that just pop up in front of you but on this occasion there were two big turtles and if im not mistaken they where fornicating. 
I used to sail a dingy/skiff, used to hit a turtle every now and then (not purposely), there would just be a bang, the steering would get heavy and the boat would stop
Removing the fiberglass centre board would show a bit of turtle shell in the leading edge (i'm sure it was okay but as it always hangs around)
Well.. does this count? I just about needed eye protection too. Almost had one or two hitting the kite..
Yesterday at Pinaroo. Apparently quite common..
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I finally found this today while editing KiteCam pix from a trip up north last week- about 700 shots and saw probably 100 sharks while kiting in the 4 days, but only 1 picci of 1 little guy, but better than nothing!
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Recently whilst kiting at Exmouth there were heaps of turtles that just pop up in front of you but on this occasion there were two big turtles and if im not mistaken they where fornicating.
And now there is hundreds of them all having a gangbang. Give them an inch and they will take a mile
Just got back from a Byron Bay holiday. Was surfing at Lennox Head - glassy conditions and only 2 other guys out. Was sitting waiting for a set and 5 fins just appeared all around me. Pooped my boardies for a second until I confirmed that they were dolphins. Anyways, a good wave came in so I started paddling for it. Looked behind to see how it was breaking and there was a dolphin on my tail! He's looking at me and I'm looking at him. When he sees what I am doing, he does a little sideways thing and makes room for me (technically, he dropped in). We both catch the wave and have a nice long carving ride. At the end before it gets too close to the rocks, he does a full jump out of the water right in front of me. It's so cool to think we were both there for the same reason doing the same thing.
Still stoked.
I know your feeling laurieP
Was paddling out at Emerald (NSW) and a pod of dolphins (that pretty much live in the bay) were swimming/surfing in, then i'm just about to duckdive a setwave and as in setting up a dolphin comes flying outta the breaking wave (in mid-air heaping at me 100km/h at my head), we both look at eachother (you can see we are both think 'oh crap') and we both divert direction mid-air and water respectively
And i love it when the dolphins are surfing point breaks, when they jump outta the face, pull a forward roll and land perfectly to continue surfing. WCT/KS got nothing on that!
Great times
I love cummuning with nature, best part of the sport really. Today I got flogged in an oneshore, cold and variable wind, with ugly crappo waves that crashed randomly..........my body is wrecked. Sometimes nature has it's ugly side too.
Sorry Surfer.. only the second one is fake.. eheh. The first one is legit (guaranteed), and its not Melville. Good guess though.
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