Orca nibble
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Re: Orca nibble
"what beautiful, playful, gentle creatures"otherside wrote:http://globalnews.ca/video/2009553/orca ... dle-board/
I am reminded of a buddy's summer spent as a deckhand on a Tofino whale watching boat. One day they come across a pod of transients hunting a seal. The orcas played volleyball with it a while, then proceeded to tear it to shreds, with a blood red cloud, intestines hanging from their viciously sharp teeth, etc. The tourists were aghast, kids crying, people puking. A nice little nature reality check!
Now flash forward to this ... when this playful creature comes to check out you, consider it's a meat eating apex predator and we are made of meat. And we have no natural defence other than our abnormal brain size. No recorded attacks of orca on surfer ... but who wants to be the first? I got chased in by a pod at Gordons a couple summers ago....started out as "cool, whales!" and then became "holy crap, they are following me". Food chain! YIKES.
PS for real "surfer in the food chain" nightmares, check out the croc story in oz http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern- ... 7358111849
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I can relate. I was strolling in Beacon Hill Park a while ago eating a nice pain au chocolate while sipping my triple Americano. Some crumbs dropped innocently on the ground and BAM! Full on feeding frenzy. Pigeons, seagulls, and ducks everywhere. A storm of feathers flying, beady eyes fixed on the kill, bills and beaks snapping like crocodiles, and the quacking. God, the quacking! I didn't know where to turn. I just screamed windmilling my arms, spilled my coffee on my crotch, dropped my nice pain au chocolate and darted out through a gap between a glaring mallard and an amped-up dove. I just managed to escape. Spooky.
Hate wasting nice pain au chocolates!
Hate wasting nice pain au chocolates!
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how many times have the men in grey suits been just below you along the cost of Washington and Oregon and you've never had the slightest idea?
Luckily you don't hear of many shark attacks on windsurfers. We don't spend as much time in the water as surfers, and when water starting our sail makes us look bigger from below.
Luckily you don't hear of many shark attacks on windsurfers. We don't spend as much time in the water as surfers, and when water starting our sail makes us look bigger from below.
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Re: Orca nibble
We had a pod of transients come in and do the same thing to a seal just outside the break when we were surfing in Tofino.juandesooka wrote:"what beautiful, playful, gentle creatures"otherside wrote:http://globalnews.ca/video/2009553/orca ... dle-board/
I am reminded of a buddy's summer spent as a deckhand on a Tofino whale watching boat. One day they come across a pod of transients hunting a seal. The orcas played volleyball with it a while, then proceeded to tear it to shreds, with a blood red cloud, intestines hanging from their viciously sharp teeth, etc. The tourists were aghast, kids crying, people puking. A nice little nature reality check!...
We got out of the water pretty quick! The ones we saw it looked like they were teaching a juvenile how to hunt/kill or something (the big ones would punt the seal to a little one, every time the seal tried to get away they would toss it back). Neat to watch, not so much when you're in the water dressed like a seal.
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If thats the incident I am thinking of Moo, they were IN-experienced young male kayakers, no immersion or other survival gear, accidents-waiting-to-happen. I think an orca attack would leave splintered kayaks or at least some evidence of a violent attack. I'll leave that for the great whites that decide to come around the corner from Flattery in the warmer water this year ;)
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re: hoodei
If i recall correctly, that swell was massive too with big winds. I recall wiffin spit being overhead that swell.