Monday 8 January 2024

DO DO, DO DO, DO DO, DO DO ...DAHHHH!



There's a lot of shark activity being reported up north at the moment with bronze whaler sightings in places they haven't been seen before and, a couple of hours ago a sighting of a great white at Reotahi beach (the next bay around from ours). SHARK



The leaping, or breaching is described here:
This spectacular behaviour is called breaching, and great white sharks breach in order to catch fast-moving prey like seals. Swimming fast at the surface, sharks can reach 40 miles per hour and fly 10 feet into the air; however, breaching is relatively rare because the shark has to use so much energy to propel itself.

OK, I don't swim very fast so hopefully Mr Shark won't think that I'm a fast-moving prey like a seal but it is a worry.

As I said there have been a lot of reports including this one of a bronze whaler in our bay:




I swim in water no deeper than neck depth so ....

I was just talking with our neighbour about this. He said that the other day he saw what he thought was a dolphin breaching by the swimming platform that's just offshore from his and our place. While he watched it breached again and he identified it as a bronze whaler longer than the swimming platform itself.

Our swimming platform

Bronze Whaler



I'm currently keeping an eye on a kayak seemingly floating off our beach.


Close-up

I can't make out of it's anchored or not and am waiting for the tide to come in and, if unanchored to float it in. I did see someone take it out a few hours ago and am not sure if he was paddling out to a boat anchored there or not. I can't see a paddle (or a body) floating though. 

I hope a shark hasn't got him.





 

7 comments:

THE CURMUDGEON said...

A guy in a small yacht sailed up, anchored and retrieved the kayak.

Sorry for the anti-climax.

Richard (of RBB) said...

Wow! This is more exciting than fighting with Mike at tennis!

Robert Sees Things in Sky said...

You wouldn't go into the jungle in South Africa to have a picnic, so people shouldn't expect to play in the ocean!

THE CURMUDGEON said...

There are no jungles in South Africa.

Richard (of RBB) said...

You wouldn't sit on a motorway having a picnic, so people shouldn't go skiing in a dessert.

Richard (of RBB) said...

Okay, okay, I meant 'desert'.

THE CURMUDGEON said...

I guess that you and Robert had the same Geography teacher back in the 'G' and 'P2' classes.