Unusual Sighting Off Mindarie
Submitted by Borbs on Sat, 2011-01-29 18:25
Have been checking pots out of Mindarie for 7 years now and have seen Dolphin, Sambos, Snapper, etc - went out this morning and saw a sea turtle on the surface!! Have seen them before diving in Whitsundays, snorkelling Port Douglas and boating around Broome. Unusual for here.
Was out between the 1 and 3 mile in 13 metres.
Borbs
Leemo
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ive seen em around rotto
ive seen em around rotto before. heard of them gettin around the place all up and dwn the coast
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beau
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saw a huge one in a couple
saw a huge one in a couple meters of water in cockburn sound a couple months ago
wazzbat
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I saw one out last year.
I saw one out last year. Can't quite remember if it was Two Rocks or Dawesville though. I think it might have been Two Rocks. We couldn't work out what it was on the surface until we putted over and as soon as we were close enough to make out what it was, it took a dive. First time we had seen one in the metro area.
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Tim77
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hooked one
mate hooked one up on a snapback plastic last year at rotto, was a lot of guessing what he had on the line from the weird fight then 10 mins later up pops a turtle. seen a few around radars and also one in the sound before.
snappermiles
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i seen two in
warnbro sound just a few weeks back! one small one large bugger
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Just1morecast
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i have seen about 3 in my
i have seen about 3 in my time on the water. All massive ones too
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spanishmackeral
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Up at monkey Mia just On
Up at monkey Mia just On sunset there's tones at the jetty, had to drag mum away, as me an dad didn't want her to see one get chilled but sharks (woulda heard about it all the way home
Faulkner Family
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seen several of them out
seen several of them out from point peron over the years and some of them were huge
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Hansie
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massive bugger
mate i haven't seen any in Perth area that i recall till 3 months ago when we saw a MASSIVE beast in the sound.
looked like it was dead but it was just still and sunbaking. 2 months later we saw a similar size one off 3 mile.
we actually had a bit of a yarn about perhaps the sealife in general recovering a bit. positive thinking maybe...
cool animals.
Bodie
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i saw a couple mating out
i saw a couple mating out from point peron last year, biggest turtles id ever seen. saw 4 that day, probably 20 mile out.