Lights beach today( white pointer)
Submitted by little johnny on Thu, 2015-09-10 20:53
2 surfing they get out quick. That is one big fin. Guy I work with mate took photo on phone. Wouldn't surf there
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cruzy111
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Killer whale.
Thats a male killer whale. White dorsals look nothin like that.
little johnny
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Only what I was told
Doesn't look black to me unsure?does look a bit like orca fin
meglodon
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My money is on it being an Orca
Where is lights beach, I'd like to know so that I can put it in my memory never to go swimming there.
Did anyone notice if there where any seals on the beach.
Oracle
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Bugger that
Rather swim with a white than an orca. Crazy mothers!
kirky79
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Looks like an Orca to me.
Looks like an Orca to me. I'd still be paddling like f?£k
Jim
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I havent googled it yet but i
I havent googled it yet but i think white pointer fins fold over sometimes.
(edit; from the extensive research ive done it seems they dont get collapsed fins)
Doesnt look as mean as a whites tail and the scale size to people says bigger than a white. imo
Shame it wasnt on an expensive camera cause thats a top pic!
Bend over
Bluetonic
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Lights Beach is down Denmark
Lights Beach is down Denmark way.
Blue Sky, Blue Water, Bluetonic!
piston broke
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Bugger
nice little right hander forming too
little johnny
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Pic taken of phone
I thought orcas swam in packs. But have to agree . Now I've seen on computer bigger pic.all good .big cutlets
Jaggo
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Yeh either way I wouldn't
Yeh either way I wouldn't risk it haha
ranmar850
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Big male orca
I've seen them in the flesh, definately not a white shark. I'd rather be in the water with an orca than a great white, anyday. I don't think has ever been an attack documented on humans by an orca. Awesome creatures.
Jason P
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Many years ago
I heard from a guy i know that many years ago when he was a youg boy at the Abrolhos Islands, his parents left him and i belive his sister on a shallow sand bar while fishing nearby, when a couple of Orca's came by circling the small Sandbar then tring to wash them off. Luckerly the parents saw what was happening just in time or may have been a different story.
DM306
barracuda
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Whale
it's a whale rolling over, side shot of its fin
Baggins
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White Phantom
Lights beach at Denmark...I stood and watched this small pod of Sthn Right Whales swim past these surfers. There were more further out. The small right is a sucker too...there were some macking lefts coming through where the two blokes were sitting.
Swompa
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Is there something else in
Is there something else in the photo, just towards the centre of the photo, on the same wave crest?
Jackalchub
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Killer whale... White.. don't
Killer whale... White.. don't think it matters.. they are still hungry
Breaksea
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Southern Right Whale -
Southern Right Whale - They've been lolling around off the beaches just outside the breaks between Albany and Denmark over the last few weeks.
just dhu it
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photo shop
IMO don't think the photo is legit , the size of the rocks compared to the size of the fin and the surfers doesn't add up in my book.
beachsoul
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yep im calling whale
Same I laughed my butt off years ago doing a surf check wen a whale rolled on its side and a big fin appeared
looking very similar
ranmar850
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Fin does look about 4 metres tall,
If they are surfers lying on their boards on the left of photo. or are they dirty craypot floats? Pic isn't exactly hi-def
Rob H
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Orcas are common as dolphins
Orcas are common as dolphins around NZ, and there has never been anything like an attack that I have heard of.
Not sure what that is but doesnt look like a shark to me?
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
sea-kem
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Whale or an Orca, don't know
Whale or an Orca, don't know why the surprise, hundreds of them around at the mo for migration.
Love the West!
Baggins
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...and again
I stood and watched them...they were sthn right whales
little johnny
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Photo shop wrong
Whale turning side on correct .got wrong info when sent (sorry)still good pic.☺️