A jaws moment

Warrigal

Warrigal

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I don't know where or when this photo was taken but it is so ominous.
It is from National Geographic so I reckon it is authentic.

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Nope. The dorsal fin says that it is a shark. Even allowing for perspective, that is one very big and powerful shark.
 

I remember buying my 14 year old son a surfboard. Something he'd wanted for years.

He tried it out first in the sheltered area of our enclosed Jetty area. Small waves - just enough to get him on his feet.

He got a bit more venturesome, so tried it out off a headland, where a lot of young surfers went.

He told me that he saw a shark - just below his surfboard, so paddled in, just using his little fingers.

He never went surfing again.
 
grannyjo said:
I remember buying my 14 year old son a surfboard. Something he'd wanted for years.

He tried it out first in the sheltered area of our enclosed Jetty area. Small waves - just enough to get him on his feet.

He got a bit more venturesome, so tried it out off a headland, where a lot of young surfers went.

He told me that he saw a shark - just below his surfboard, so paddled in, just using his little fingers.

He never went surfing again.
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Well he got one heck of a story out of that at least. Thank God he was okay.

Warrigal said:
I don't like swimming in the sea.
Even a piece of seaweed touching my ankle gives me the heebie jeebies.
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That's what I'm like :D I can't tell you how many times I have gone running full blast back to the beach. Yes, I have escaped seaweed on my legs many times LOL!
 
The Shark Kayak is by a National Geographic photographer called Thomas Peschak who has won awards for his stunning underwater photography.
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This is a clever photograph because at first glance it is hard to make sense of what you see. Thomas Peschak was on Auntie ABC with some of his photos a few days ago.
 
I've kayaked in the ocean and my first time was in Monterrey Bay in Cali. Saw lots of seals but I didn't know at the time that sometimes there are sharks there. We have an inflatable tandem kayak that we've stored where we stay in Thailand. So we paddle there and go swimming. But I've checked and sharks don't seem to hange around in the Gulf of Thailand. But I think I'll check again!! The thing to worry about there are poisonous jellyfish which make me nervous enough.
 
That's not one of our sharks.
It is South African unless it is in the habit of crossing the Indian Ocean to Western Australia.

Our sharks are all very docile. :grin:
 
Ralphy1 said:
It is a wonder anybody lives there...
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They have the biggest concentration of deadly creatures on the planet - or so I've heard. My BIL in Melbourne showed us one of those deadly red spiders in his garden one time. And we found a huge brown furry spider on the drapes in a holiday apartment.
 

The big brown furry ones are harmless, scout's honor.
They don't spin webs and look much nastier than they are.
Leave them alone and they will return the favour
and also eat a lot of flies and cockroaches.
 
Warrigal said:

The big brown furry ones are harmless, scout's honor.
They don't spin webs and look much nastier than they are.
Leave them alone and they will return the favour
and also eat a lot of flies and cockroaches.
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My BIL said it wasn't poisonous and pulled it off the drape to take outside since we didn't want it to share the apartment with us. It bit him.
 
One thing about having to suffer cold winters is that it keeps all of these types of creatures to a minimum...
 
Warrigal said:
Then he didn't know how to remove it safely.
Even a mole cricket will bite if you hold it in your hand.
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No, he didn't. I guess we were stressing him out by having 3 people freaking out! He's lived in Australia for about 35 years so should know how to deal with the critters. :D
 
Ameriscot said:
No, he didn't. I guess we were stressing him out by having 3 people freaking out! He's lived in Australia for about 35 years so should know how to deal with the critters. :D
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His first mistake was trying to remove it from a curtain. It's easier if it is on the wall. You just place a container over them, then slide a piece of paper or cardboard under the container. The spider is then contained and you take it outside carefully, making sure it cannot find a crack to escape from by pressing the paper/cardboard against the container, and release it near a tree where it will find a home and food.

I used to do this but now I just give them a name and let them stay.
 

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