stingers in moreton bay ?

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Richiefish
Richiefish
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23 Oct 2007 12:49pm
mate sailing back from straddie to manly yesterday (boat) saw what appeared to be vast swarms of bluebottles...beware.
mkseven
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23 Oct 2007 5:14pm
On sunday at wello (apart from the sharks) there were stacks of what I first thought were bluebottles but on inspection were odd shaped things with no stinger. I've never seen anything like them before, juvenille blue bottles maybe?
Richiefish
Richiefish
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23 Oct 2007 9:27pm
mmmm that sounds like em. Seen half way between Peel and Huybers beacon.(Wello) No sign of any today at Manly.
elizabethb
elizabethb
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23 Oct 2007 11:04pm
Ah yuck. Exactly what Reddy is like.
Coming out from the Shorncliffe boat launching thing the jellies are so thick there, I was TERRIFIED if I fell off the ski loL! hhaha actually really scarry

But I was at Wello on Monday, and I saw 3 stingrays (Would have been Diagonally 40cm) and in not even 1m deep water!
Had JUST swum my dog >German Shephard X Grey Hound< in the water there, and about 2min later the 3 of them appeared!!! It was on the TOP of the water to, contrary to what we usually see is them on the bottom! Called the marine thing to see if it was sick or why and yes, they do that in more shallow water!
It then move further underwater as it move out towards Straddy (came from manly direction on high tide)

Just keep eyes open i guess for a lot of things!

mkseven
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24 Oct 2007 5:52am
Stingrays bask on the surface just like sharks. Occasionally you get big schools of them in the bay just lying on top of the water.

The blue jellies I can handle, blue bottles are a little more fierce but I suppose with all the wind we've been having they are due to come in.
NotWal
NotWal
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26 Oct 2007 6:50pm
quote:
Originally posted by mkseven

On sunday at wello (apart from the sharks) there were stacks of what I first thought were bluebottles but on inspection were odd shaped things with no stinger. I've never seen anything like them before, juvenille blue bottles maybe?



love the casual discounting of sharks. Its as if paw paw not only fixes stings but makes your limbs grow back.
mkseven
mkseven
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26 Oct 2007 9:04pm
Sharks only have a taste for kiters, a wise old monk told me so

Besides they weren't all that big, after looking at that spot on monday the water would have been about 1m deep.
moon
moon
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29 Oct 2007 10:45pm
Lotys of blue bottles at Scotts Point sunday also, small blue tea bag things with a small sail on the top. Lots on beach but none in water as was out all arvo and didn't get stung. Not seen them there before.
vando
vando
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29 Oct 2007 11:13pm
I got stung by something at manly on sunday.
And it wasnt the normaly light blue jelly sting this hurt.
nebbian
nebbian
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29 Oct 2007 10:27pm
It wasn't in moreton bay, but today out near Gladstone I saw something that looked very much like a crocodile by the way it swam. The next gybe was very very careful, and one minute later I was on dry land...

Still have goosebumps!
vando
vando
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30 Oct 2007 12:07am
what ya doing up there nebs
nebbian
nebbian
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30 Oct 2007 8:23am
Just visiting... (and cutting my feet up on the oysters )
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