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Dolphins in botany bay!

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Created by schmik > 9 months ago, 14 Jun 2011
schmik
NSW, 235 posts
14 Jun 2011 2:59PM
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Got out for quickie today between the rain periods. Unbelievable... there were dolphins at the 1st carpark spot on botany bay. They followed me around for a while.
I've seen them at boat harbor before and on the nthern beaches but never in botany bay.

Awsome session!

cheers
mike

14 Jun 2011 3:21PM
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Have seen them a few times Schmik, I'm sure there are a few pods that visit and explore Bate bay, (corulla/wanda) and Botany Bay.
Abyss diving reckon they saw a whale shark in the heads last week!!

gruezi
WA, 3464 posts
14 Jun 2011 3:32PM
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It is just magic when you out there with the other animals.....dolphins ARE cool.

yeehar
101 posts
14 Jun 2011 3:36PM
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おいしい

LostinSpace
QLD, 388 posts
14 Jun 2011 6:26PM
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yeehar said...

おいしい


Yes delicious indeed Yeehar

schmik
NSW, 235 posts
14 Jun 2011 6:49PM
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I was thinking they come in to the bay for safety in this sort of weather.... last year when we had heaps of southerlies and oceans were a washing machine i went to boat harbor and there was NO beach. Got to the top of the hill with the access track and waves were washing over the whole area.

Stopped for a chat with ranger type dude and he was telling me about dead baby dolphins washed up at low tide :(

Today was very cool though. I am hooting along in 20knots of wind, I look in the water behind my back (the upwind side) and there is this dolphin about 2 feet under water hooting along with me. He followed me for 3 runs! Sweet!

Steve, could you hear me calling "yeah ha!" all the way down at kitepower?

mike

tightlines
WA, 3488 posts
14 Jun 2011 6:03PM
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I had an amazing experience just last week paddling around on a SUP for about half an hour with a pod of six dolphins following me around.



I just missed a classic shot when all six dolphins jumped out of the water directly in front of me, shoulder to shoulder almost simultaneously.
At one stage I am sure they were all out of the water but I only got the before and after shots on my camera the other images are stored in my head.

rhinoman
QLD, 362 posts
14 Jun 2011 8:09PM
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did you also see planes at the airport

sebol
WA, 753 posts
15 Jun 2011 1:38AM
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With a harpoon and that leash plug at the front of the board, you could have scored a wicked ride

15 Jun 2011 12:03PM
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schmik said...

I was thinking they come in to the bay for safety in this sort of weather.... last year when we had heaps of southerlies and oceans were a washing machine i went to boat harbor and there was NO beach. Got to the top of the hill with the access track and waves were washing over the whole area.

Stopped for a chat with ranger type dude and he was telling me about dead baby dolphins washed up at low tide :(

Today was very cool though. I am hooting along in 20knots of wind, I look in the water behind my back (the upwind side) and there is this dolphin about 2 feet under water hooting along with me. He followed me for 3 runs! Sweet!

Steve, could you hear me calling "yeah ha!" all the way down at kitepower?

mike


We were trying to work out what that noise was, sounded quite muffled!

Jedibrad
NSW, 527 posts
15 Jun 2011 7:23PM
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I shared tubes with dolphins a few weeks ago... eyeball to eyeball for solid hour.... very surreal

Roar
NSW, 471 posts
15 Jun 2011 11:54PM
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Saw a pod of dolphin a few times out in the middle of botany this summer.
ususaly when we were sailing from kurnell across to Sans souci, in big Ne'ers

Also ran across a Bull shark about 200 meters off the beach at kurnel.
And a Seal that was having a snooze just south of the runway. (weird arse seals like to sleep with 1 flipper sticking out of the water about a foot high. scared the crap out of me when i almost ran it over.)

Plenty of wildlife out there :)


Jon
NSW, 80 posts
16 Jun 2011 2:10AM
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I'll look out for the dolphins.
Last year i saw a Penguin between Brighton and 1st groyne.
Saw a Whale over near La Perouse.
It's all out there last summer got a shock form an Electric Eel too.

Bull Sharks off kurnell i'll leave them for you to run over. How exactly did you run over it?



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