Good evening Longboarders.

Came across this bloke a few years ago, had me backing up pretty quick after I took the photo, he wasn't in any hurry to back off that's for sure.

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smh said..

Cobra said..
Congrats Obct
its a buzz seeing animals for the first time.
best one I saw
i was fly fishing this mountain stream in the Vic high country . I could hear all these birds going off
when I walked around the stream bend there was a tree log across the stream with a Lyrebird standing
on the log with its tail fanned out Making different birds sounds kookaburra magpies whip bird bell bird and
heaps of others,I stood dead still and watched the show & thought how lucky am I will never forget this.

i still get a buzz every time I see whales.

just like this.

Cobra do you still fly fish ?

Yes mate, mostly saltwater stuff now, planning a trip to New Caledonia chasing bone fish next year.
i have more fly rods than Mac has Mctavish boards last count 8.
still have a 2 & 4 weight for trout but haven't been south chasing browns for a few years.

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obct said..
This is as close as I ever knowingly got to a venomous one, I think it was a black snake back in around 1973.

Don't know how long it had its head caught inside that can, but either side of its neck was really cut up bad, we could not believe it was still alive, maybe it wasn't, maybe it was just his nerves still going.

Funny how things change over the years, back then we thought the best thing we could do was put it out of its misery , these days we would be trying to find a shelter or a vet to take it to.

Brother that is some serious hairdo - I have just laid a greenie on you for that absolutely magnificent mane you farken handsome sublime bastard of a thing obct

First Barra on fly
I've taken permit but never bones.
fly fished NZ South Island for trout, that place is crazy good.

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vanders1 said..
Came across this bloke a few years ago, had me backing up pretty quick after I took the photo, he wasn't in any hurry to back off that's for sure.

I was driving down a track bout ten years ago and saw a snake about ten metres in front of me ambling across it. "Cool," I thought and got out to watch him. Dumb idea. It was a tiger and as soon as it spotted me it stopped, turned and reared up. There was a second or two of eyeballing each other then it was at me. I started backtracking, but the car door was shut and I didn't want to take the time to open it and climb in. Bloody thing chased me down the track for 20 or 30 metres before it had enough and disappeared into the bush. Suffice to say, I cleaned out my pants before hopping back into the car.

I also once chased a while frisbee into some knee high scrub next to a mates place in Kalgoorlie. When I reached down to get it it was lying about three inches from a death adder and my foot was about a foot from it. It didn't even move but that was the end of frisbee for the afternoon.

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obct said..
This is as close as I ever knowingly got to a venomous one, I think it was a black snake back in around 1973.

Don't know how long it had its head caught inside that can, but either side of its neck was really cut up bad, we could not believe it was still alive, maybe it wasn't, maybe it was just his nerves still going.

Funny how things change over the years, back then we thought the best thing we could do was put it out of its misery , these days we would be trying to find a shelter or a vet to take it to.

Jeez, is that really you? You're looking like a young Harry Butler! At that time, he'd have dispatched that poor fella and cooked 'im up for supper..... You're also looking like you could do with a feed..... you're a shadow of your future self......

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Cobra said..
First Barra on fly
I've taken permit but never bones.
fly fished NZ South Island for trout, that place is crazy good.

Nice fish Cobra.

Good luck with the bone fish.
I don't have the patience for fly fishing. Be shown a few times but give me a lure and spin rod any day.

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Macaha said..

Cobra said..
First Barra on fly
I've taken permit but never bones.
fly fished NZ South Island for trout, that place is crazy good.

Proof Cobra is not scary in real life, nice catch mate and your count was out by 1 only 7 mct but 1 foreign on its way

, just remember a mate of mine fishing rod collection, Mac this fella makes you look like youre not having a go


just wanted to show you guys this photo I took

A fella I know made this lure + that's my finger my parents made that.

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smh said..

Cobra said..

Macaha said..

Cobra said..
First Barra on fly
I've taken permit but never bones.
fly fished NZ South Island for trout, that place is crazy good.

Proof Cobra is not scary in real life, nice catch mate and your count was out by 1 only 7 mct but 1 foreign on its way

, just remember a mate of mine fishing rod collection, Mac this fella makes you look like youre not having a go


just wanted to show you guys this photo I took

A fella I know made this lure + that's my finger my parents made that.

How could you even cast that thing ? Thats the smallest hard body I've ever seen. Probably good for garfish.

Lol he did it ,just to say he could. It's not to fish with

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MichaelR said..

obct said..
This is as close as I ever knowingly got to a venomous one, I think it was a black snake back in around 1973.

Don't know how long it had its head caught inside that can, but either side of its neck was really cut up bad, we could not believe it was still alive, maybe it wasn't, maybe it was just his nerves still going.

Funny how things change over the years, back then we thought the best thing we could do was put it out of its misery , these days we would be trying to find a shelter or a vet to take it to.

Jeez, is that really you? You're looking like a young Harry Butler! At that time, he'd have dispatched that poor fella and cooked 'im up for supper..... You're also looking like you could do with a feed..... you're a shadow of your future self......

Yes, taken out at Londonderry by my mate Dave, that's where we would go to ride dirt bikes, it was just low scrubby bush back then with a lot of burnt out cars. I even recall the burnt out shell of a Mercedes 600. Probably all houses now.

That was a good example of the old Keep It Simple Stupid philosophy. The same thing may have have happened to others here.

Dave was a mower and bicycle mechanic who worked out of a small shop in Cabramatta, he had unlimited access to old mower motors. His shop also started selling these cheap knock down kits for mini bikes for just $40 each.

They were easy to put together, and they had no suspension at all , the wheels were tiny, maybe only 8 inches total diameter, and the kit even came with the centrifugal clutch.

So we got a couple, put them together and put a 2 stroke motor in each. Dave used a victa, I used a villiers. we got rid of all the cooling tin and the starters and we didn't even bother to install the foot pegs because they would stop you from really cranking is over in the turns. We just tucked our feet on top of the double cradle frame members.

To start the bikes, we both carried a rawhide starter cord wrapped around our necks as we rode.

Safety gear was as per the photo, a pair of steal capped work boots, a pair of jeans and a long sleeved shirt.

we would carve out little tracks for ourselves, and spend hour after hour racing each other, eating dust an rocks, trying to kick each other off the bike, or better still, over the bank of a creek, and all the while wearing the biggest grins in the world.

That lasted maybe year before we both started to get proper dirt bikes, join clubs, start competing in enduros go on long trail rides, I even finished up riding observed trials on a TY 175 because it would hurt less when I crashed, which I did quite often.

Now here's the KISS part, looking back on those days, i can in all honesty say that the most fun was the $40 mini bikes, and not by a whisker, I mean by a mile.

good days they were - 85cc ex postie bike became a frankenstein 3 wheel trike with fat tyres just perfect for the sand quarries out in Spearwood - until a nasty tuart tree ended it's existence

Take plenty of water & spare tyres - harsh harsh environment up that way mate and a good support crew following close by

****n stretched mouth wins Phillip island moto Gp.

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Cobra said..
I've got some time on the Goldie recovery after op.
heading down to watch the guns of surfing looking forward to fin changes weight changes and boardie changes.

You're a sick man Cobra but I love ya work

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Ricardo1709 said..

Cobra said..
I've got some time on the Goldie recovery after op.
heading down to watch the guns of surfing looking forward to fin changes weight changes and boardie changes.

You're a sick man Cobra but I love ya work

Me too Cobra we will make a great pair watching from the sideline, let me know so we can bag these cats together.