www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-15/whale-carcass-near-carnarvon/2901308

Way to wreck my holiday. Where are the Japanese when you need them.

79Boarder said...


Way to wreck my holiday. Where are the Japanese when you need them.

My thoughts exactly. Apparently they can't get permission to do anything with it. Turtles is a good 6 or 7 km's from Toombies. But I guess it depends on which way the currents take the oil

LAst time I saw a whale carcass in the exmouth gulf a few years ago the slick from the oil went a long, long way. It was a calm afternoon and you could see the slick going out towards the murion islands.

If with the prevailing southerlies that slick will more than likely head north and it will pull in the nasties from a long way away.
There is some footage of a white pointer having a go at a carcass (and the zodiac filming it) from about 2002 /3 . This was in Exmouth . So its a fair chance that you might get a pointer or two hanging around the burley slick.

YOu might have to cancel gnaraloo and head further north. Go exploring plenty more reef all the way to Exmouth......

That just wrecked my day
Thanks for the heads up anyway...
Hope its not one of those first of April posts!

Pack on the sunscreen. Scares the fish away

Damn whales.....you do so much to try to save them and clearly some of them just can't be bothered

theres one in the dunes 100m north of Pinnaroo point, was dug in some 15 years ago though

... saw a doco where they blew one up,, think it was called "Reno 911, Miami!"