Posted on 12/08/2017 7:05:21 AM PST by C19fan
“Fish are friends, not food!”
Thanks!
I thought so too!
What an experience.
The Great Whites suck.
When you’re an Orca,
You’re an Orca all the way
From your first cigarette
To your last manta ray.
When you’re an Orca,
Let them do what they can,
You got brothers around,
You’re a killer shark man!
Bkmk
No just Johannesburg & capetown & then took a tourbus down to the cape and back before flying up north to Zambia & victoria falls.
When you vist SA these days as a tourist—you definitely want to go accompanied by a tour guide.
hmm I just looked at where Bansbaai is on the map and saw that our tourbus would have passed through there on the way to the cape. I think that would have been one of the places where we saw great places to have second homes—if you could afford it.
Veddy interestink! Thanks.
whoops. correction again. just checked the map again. and Gansbaai is further up the indian ocean coast from the cape of good hope. so no I didn’t get as far as Gansbaai.
You never know what you might see in the Red Triangle where the Great Whites roam.
Sometimes you see this stuff from a boat, from land or someone’s You Tube.
A decade or so ago, I was headed down Coastal One from Gualala to Bodega Bay and then home after some steel head fishing.
I drove to Bodega Point to be able to make a cell phone call from the one area where a cell worked.
As I was parking my truck, I saw people running to the guard rail and looking down at the ocean and going yuck.
I walked over saw a great white putting the kill hit on a big seal. Then, another great while pulled another seal of some rocks and into the ocean. Then about every seal on Seal Island started yelping, dove into the water and swam into the bay. There were probably a hundred + seals in that get away run.
About the same time in the North Monterrey Bay Area, a neighbor was trying his new home made wooden row boat. A huge seal jumped up on/into his boat. Then, he saw a Great White circling his new boat. He basically stunned the seal with his big wooden oars and pushed it into the water and got the hell out of there. Before he got to shore, the Great White got the seal and killed it.
Later, we heard of kayaks from Bodega Bay to Monterrey having seals jump on the yaks to get out of the water for days until the packs of great whites moved down to S. California.
I have a couple Orca stories ...
I was SCUBA diving Juan De Fuca Straights, I was at the end of my dive and a school of fish came close, at about 20’ I let loose my Hawaiian Sling Spear and missed but the spear got away from me so I chased it to the bottom (60’) and as I was retrieving the spear I felt a presence... I looked to my right (Thought it was my Dive Buddy) and there was this eyeball ... it was a Killer Whale like 3” away from me.
I assume it was just curious? Or not Hungry or MOST likely, they have Family PODS and they have a Target Diet and that is all they dine on?
My other Orca Story (True no BS) was when I was in the Navy there were 5,000 plus people on the Kitty Hawk and yet we somehow always knew what was going on, so we figured it was just Gab and Rumors, To test the hypothesis while standing in the Chowline one morning I just said “Man, did you hear about Shamu at Sea World?” my buddy played along “Naw What?” and my Tale was short “They killed Shamu! Sea World let this little Five Year Old Girl get up to the edge of the Pool during a show so she could pet him and Shamu just bit her head off! So they had no choice, they had to put him down”.
No kidding (No BS) within 24 hrs the Whole Ship was saying “Hey man did you hear? Shamu bit a kids head off then Sea World killed Shamu!”
Waiting in that Chowline the next morning was FUN. (actually both mornings)
Orcas tear out the shark livers and use them as bait for giant squid who are obsessed with eating shark liver ... think of it as chumming.
“He basically stunned the seal with his big wooden oars and pushed it into the water and got the hell out of there. Before he got to shore, the Great White got the seal and killed it.”
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Sealicide, like sealionicide is punishable by $100,000 fine and 10 years in the federal slammer ...
I wennt swimmingg on the indian ocean side of the cape. the public swimming beach was near a seal colony. I have to say, I’d seen enough utubes like the one you posted to be very nervous about being to long in the water or too far from the beach. I was scanning the water constantly.
In Californicator land that might happen.
Because “Californicator land” is such a huge market, what happens in there get passed to the rest of us - like the ethanol mandate ... All the CAFE standards were implemented in “Californicator land” first; its just economics of scale. This is why that state is such a threat to all the others in what we are able to buy or not buy.
Response #29 on this thread has a link to it.
I found it, thank you!
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