Exxy nature day
Went out in awesome conditions today and did a bit of the nature thing with Renae, the squid were pretty quiet so we just cruised around and found 3 dugongs having a feast on the sea grass.
After playing around with them for half an hour we went out looking for whales and found a huge hawksbill turtle enjoying the surroundings.
Unfortunately the whales were really skittish and we couldn't get any good photos, but there were plenty around so hopefully I will be able to get some good jump shots next trip (its my ambition for this whale season). On the way back in we found a dolphin with her very new born having a phat time chasing some bait, extremely cute but not keen on the camera. We then headed in as we could see the northerly coming and back at the ramp there was a decent sized wedge tail with a feed of mullet (didn't come out too well on the camera, looks more like batman)
Anyway, it was a nice day on the water and a bit of a change up from fishing which was enjoyable - even though the water was crystal clear and the first 15 minutes I was making sure Renae knew that I wasn't happy about not having the speargun on board. :)
Cheers,
Adam
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Bunny
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Awesome day Adam. Some great
Awesome day Adam. Some great pics there mate.
MattMiller
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Bloody hell.
We were up there 3 weeks ago and copped 4 days straight of 30-35knt NE. If we got conditions like that we wouldn't have mucked around lookin at Dugongs, HAHA
Webby
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theres probably plenty of
theres probably plenty of people have asked this, but what camera are you using mate? great photos
I live with fear every day... sometimes she lets me go fishing.
carnarvonite
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Different
Went out the west side [story and pics later], wasn't too bad untill it strengthened from the NW early afternoon, should have done your trip and gone nature viewing.
Adam Gallash
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yep
I know what you mean Matt, should have been out deep as well, but have heard the full moon has shut it down a bit. Even though we got 4 trout, heaps of striped sea perch, heaps of moses perch, lots of small bluies and other odds and sods on Wednesday. Was feeling a bit fished out so was good just to have a chill day before back to work tomorrow.
As for camera webman, its a canon 50d with 70-200 lens a circular hoya polarizer and the photo touch ups done with picasa. Would have been great to get some nice whale shots in there as well, but they weren't really going off. Still could have got some ok ones though.
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Faulkner Family
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would have been nice just
would have been nice just chilling. great pics of the sea cows. and your right, the eagle does look like batman
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Boozehag
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Batman looks awesome
Geez Ads you are the only bloke that can make a Wedgie look like Batman
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