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
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 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.
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| Our swimming platform |
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| Bronze Whaler |
I'm currently keeping an eye on a kayak seemingly floating off our beach.
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| 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.
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A guy in a small yacht sailed up, anchored and retrieved the kayak.
Sorry for the anti-climax.
Wow! This is more exciting than fighting with Mike at tennis!
There are no jungles in South Africa.
You wouldn't sit on a motorway having a picnic, so people shouldn't go skiing in a dessert.
Okay, okay, I meant 'desert'.
I guess that you and Robert had the same Geography teacher back in the 'G' and 'P2' classes.
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