when you are offshore, anything strange or of interest.
There was a thread a few years ago in windsurfing and some interesting stuff was found and seen when offshore 
Mate, I think you're bored, here's a story for ya. I'm riding down Mullaloo drive on my pushie, to catch up with the boys at Pinnas for an after kite sess beer, (their sess 
) PC Plod is there on that blind rise just before the big roundabout near MBH with a hair dryer. He had just pulled over a bogan for excess speed in a Commodore, who just happened to be suckin on a can of Jim Beam at the time.
I hear the copper tell this idiot to empty out the can. So what does he do !?, in an amazing act of defiance, he skulls it !! True story , have you ever witnessed such stupidity ? Gawd, I need wind, like real bad, think you do too , ay ?
Here's another one in the same area.
I was walking with the cheese and kisses and the dog along northshore drive around 9pm a week ago.
Some nit wit was on the wrong side of the road with his high breams on shining into the on coming traffic. Turned out it was the cops. They had just finished putting the bag on one punter when both them and us heard another punter smoking his tyres in the car park up the hill. The one between the mbh roundabout and the whitfords roundabout.
Anyway he comes out of the car park lit up like a Christmas tree hammering it straight at the cops.
Done like a hot dinner. They went through his car like a dose of epsom salts.
Saw a big Leatherback Turtle off Scarbs one day. Didn't think they came this far South, but there you go...
) PC Plod is there on that blind rise just before the big roundabout near MBH with a hair dryer. He had just pulled over a bogan for excess speed in a Commodore, who just happened to be suckin on a can of Jim Beam at the time. 
I was in geraldton a couple of years ago catching up with my brother, we were sailing the point and he saw a dog, at least 1/2 a kay out and heading out to sea. I managed to grab him and got him under my arm and kited back to shore. Bloody heavy and wiggily but very happy to be back on land.
The only thing you may bump into in Port Phillip Bay this summer is a large Turd.....
The bay is filthy and a ****in discrace. When Melb gets havy rains the sewers cannot cope and Melbourne Water release RAW sewerage into the bay.....heaps of it.
The EPA do nothing......
beaches are regularly noted as unsafe for swimming with bacteria levels 1000's of times above what is acceptable and this then lasts for weeks ..... but the EPA are more concered about the pimple faced teenage in his WRX with the Exhaust or stereo that is a few db above the limit. ( yes still a parasite but lets get some perspective )
You guys are lucky bumping into sunfish and turtles...... its all tampons and turds over here.
Tampons and turds.......you lucky bastards.
We I was a boy we used to kite surf on molten lava using our gall bladders as kites and our intestines as lines. And when we were done we had to run home in 45 degree heat using broken glass as thongs before sharing a dry crust between 4 for our dinner before a good thrashing from our Dear Pa and going to bed in the toilet with only used toilet paper as a blanket.
Tampons and turds...we would have loved tampons and turds.
Luxury
When I was a kid it was the Caingorms & the hostel (at least if you got back before the doors locked - Gawd the van was cold!!)
AP
I found a visor hat once way out the back. That became my kite hat and I rode with it for ages until I lost it in the surf. Hope someone else is enjoying it now.
Sailing a Taser in Darwin a harbour race we saw what looked like a big piece of rope on the surface maybe 20m ahead... as we got closer it popped its head above the surface and we realized it was a huge sea snake, maybe 3m long? It snaked straight past the front of the boat totally unfazed without changing its course one bit
While kiting in the bay a few weeks back I saw what I thought was a child's body floating face down but missing hands and feet. I have seen bodies that have been in water for long periods and this was the same. With my heart in my mouth I trolled back and forth trying to find it and get close enough to confirm what I was seeing. Contemplating what I would have have to do next...
After about 15 minutes and just getting glimpses in the waves and late afternoon sun I was happy enough that it wasn't a child. It was either some other non human flesh or just some water logged foam. Still get shivers thinking of my initial feeling when I thought it was a kids body...
Trying to make ground upwind, far off the beach in a gusty sou easter, some flying fish jumped and flew in front of me, I became transfixed on them, and.. dumped the kite, it relaunched, but.. then inverted. Long story short, picked up by clubbies in IRB, they were great (I was in big s#!t if they hadn't shown up.)
Had a few, the usual stuff: flying fish trying to take you out or gliding along beside you (pretty cool) and dolphins, cartons of beer (twin tips) etc. but the best/scariest for me was when a mate and I were cruising along very close together (heaps closer than you'd normally be to another kiter, maybe 5-6m apart) when a whale popped up right between us! The thing's back came out of the water and took up the entire space between us, just one giant mound of whale back! Scared the bejesus out of me, just thinking it lucky it didn't jump out of the water or flap it's tail or something cause we'd both be goners!
One of those things that, looking back, is one of the coolest thing ever but at the time it was seriously rattling!
I had just finished a session and was packing up on the beach near floreat on new years day when i spotted a big silver shark hovering above the surface of the water. It was one of those remote controlled helium sharks that must have come loose (or escaped from someones house) and was drifting along parallel to the shore about 30m out to sea.
Also seen dolphins, turtles, and stingrays. The kite shadow scares the stingrays... I had one jump about a foot out of the water once...
... sort of on subject ...
last year, Australia Day, we were haveing a big day, and on my 6th beer or so and inbetween kite sessions the cops turned up and said they were looking for a sky diver who's shoot didn't open!! They were jumping and landing on a beach a few km's downwind of us. He was reported to have hit the water, approx 2 or 3 km's roughly downwind of our launch and 1km off the beach they were aiming for. The local surfclub were launching the boats etc and the cop asked if any of us had seen the guy. None of us did so I jump into action and figured I'd head out and see if I can find him, didn't know what I was going to do but still, maybe help!
As it turned out, his shoot did fail but the back up was used quickly and he landed on the beach a little upwind of his landing point and was wondering what all the fuss was about. He watched the surfclub guys running around getting boats into the water, while I was out to sea mowing the lawn looking for what I thought could have been a body!!
Lucky we can laught about it now, I really wasn't sure what to expect or what I could actually do if he was actually in the water!!
cheers,
Robbie
A dead and extremely bloated cow at Strickland Bay, Rottnest.
I have a photo at home somewhere.
I wouldn't even mind the odd tampon or turd instead of the masses of jellyfish at Bris beaches at the moment - horrible just horrible little basturds!!!!!
I was way out to sea behind South Passage a year or so ago in my kayak, a pod/herd/whatever you call it of 20 + dolphins and half a dozen whales including 2 babies cruised by. Three of the whales found me entertaining and stuck with me for half an hour or so. Having a bloody big whale repeatedly swim underneath you and rolling onto it's side for a better look only 3 feet below was one of the most awesome (and scariest) things I've ever encountered.
Unfortunately I only had a crappy camera with me so never got a decent photo, you just have to take my word for it.
While paddling across to Straddy we found a fully sealed plastic container with some German guys ashes in it, it was just after the big floods last year. I put him on the front of my board for a while then left him at the campground on Straddy for the rangers to find
Boof
