Posted on 10/31/2014 7:18:32 AM PDT by C19fan
This is the frightening moment a three-metre Great White started trailing a surfer back to shore, just two weeks before another man lost his arm and hand in a nearby shark attack. Andy Johnston was out with a small group of surfers at West Beach near Esperance, south-east of Perth, on September 21 when people ashore spotted the dark shadow looming. Other surfers managed to clear the water onto a reef after people started to honk their car horns to warn of the approaching shark, but Mr Johnston opted to stay put.
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I surfed till my late 30’s, looking for choice breaks up and down SoCal. I was sitting outside one morning off of Sunset when I saw “something” dark at about 10 feet long pass just under my board. Figuring myself lucky to have made it back to the beach, I decided then and there to sacrifice my surfing “career”.
I don’t surf myself.
I have a talent for ticking off wildlife, badly.
Been attacked by turkey, deer, squirrels, beaver, possum, raccoon, chickadee, owls, chased by a bobcat, a grouse, and had a porcupine make several half hearted nips at my legs.
Have yet to run afoul of a bear, hopefully I won’t ever do so.
I figure with luck like that, I’d find myself on the wrong end of a shark without even trying.
“But I’m only in ankle deep water! I haven’t even gotten out there yet!”
A meter is close to a yard.
So without a calculator, you would say nine feet.
Oh, a little one.
Piranha, pike, pickerel, Oscars, and sharks.
Oscars because they will chew with those darn needle teeth once they grab.
Add Bluefish to that list. Lots’a teeth and strong jaws.
There are several pictures. Not a plane. Clearly a shark. You can see the dorsal.
Added!
Had a Barricuda chase me once in the Bahamas - I swam faster backwards than I ever ran forward in my life. Needless to say I stayed out of the water the rest of the day. Brrrr
Miss Rafferty wore taffeta,
Miss Cavendish wore lavender.
We ate pickerel and mackerel
And other lavish provender.
Miss Cavendish was Lalage,
Miss Rafferty was Barbara.
We gobbled pickled mackerel
And broke the candelabara,
Miss Cavendish in lavender,
In taffeta, Miss Rafferty,
The girls in taffeta lavender,
And we, of course, in mufti.
Miss Rafferty wore taffeta,
The taffeta was lavender,
Was lavend, lavender, lavenderest,
As the wine improved the provender.
Miss Cavendish wore lavender,
The lavender was taffeta.
We boggled mackled pickerel,
And bumpers did we quaffeta.
And Lalage wore lavender,
And lavender wore Barbara,
Rafferta taffeta Cavender lavender
Barbara abracadabra.
Miss Rafferty in taffeta
Grew definitely raffisher.
Miss Cavendish in lavender
Grew less and less stand-offisher.
With Lalage and Barbara
We grew a little pickereled,
We ordered Mumm and Roederer
Because the bubbles tickereled.
But lavender and taffeta
Were gone when we were soberer.
I haven’t thought for thirty years
Of Lalage and Barbara.
- Ogden Nash
Another fish added to my list.
Agreed. Heck fishing with live shrimp is tricky :)
The bait bugs don’t bother me much.
But the fish trying to eat me for simply existing?
Ugh, hand me the dynamite stunner.
The civilized food chain ends at the shoreline. There’s things in oceans that eat people for lunch and come back for second helpings.
“You’re gonna need a bigger surfboard.” - h/t Cpt. Quint
Didn’t think sharks had houses to burn, but what about burning down their school? Fishy joke. Hey, I’m here all week, try the veal...
and Lemons are served with Seafood...
Lemons that my engineers made...
..that burn down houses by being combustible.
You sure do. Maybe you need Common Core.
Dynamite fishing.
Only guaranteed way to get those nibbly jerks before they get you.
Funny and true story: The guy next to me had never been out on a surfoard. I told him there was a shark just beyond where the waves were forming, he saw it and immediately freaked out, fell off his board and kept thrashing around in the water trying to get away, falling off his board over and over again.
I felt very safe....
:-)
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