looks like a sunfish to me as will but i thought  thay stuck to deep water

Hard to tell the scale of the shot, but certainly looks like a Sunfish. I read recently that their habbit of basking on or close to the surface results in impacts from boats/ships. That may explain the beach wash up. 

Colin

Yep looks like a sunfish

by a dickhead beach driver.

Maybe he set up too close to you Col

There would be a gang of Gamakatsu hooks hanging off its ear if that was the case.

how big were they?
iv only heard of them described as massive but that one looks small

were is cheynes beach?

SOI, Cheynes is basically (approx) 30 clics east of Albany, and yes, Sunfish can be huge. Ocean sunfish (Mola mola) can gow more than 4.2m and 3m across. a 2.7m specimen, caught in 1996 of 'only' 2.7 meters in length weighed 2.3 (metric) tones (5,071 pounds)!  

Colin

Great spot Cheyne's Beach. Sad to hear it is disappearing.

 Just pulled that off Google Colin, I'd also seen a few programs with content including similar info. 

Colin

How did you go with the weather last night? I see there were severe thunderstone warnings of the south of the State.

I'll post that seperately Colin

Colin