Just read the fb link classic I can just see the head lines "Naked birds Scare Naked Birds" Now thats some funny sh#t

LMFAO

I suggest Mandurah Mob be renamed "The Abominable Hoons"

Well just on a point of order, I must point out that MM sailors were less than half the total number in there. And the main subject of the pics was a CST member.
So if you're going to rename anybody it should be Coastal Speed Team. I suggest something like The Abomoes.
But to be fair, Pinnas were also in there, so we could have Pinnaboms, manaboms and coastaboms

I can't believe she's trampling all over that fragile flora and ecosystem like that.

fangman said..

sausage said..

whippingboy said...
LMFAO

I suggest Mandurah Mob be renamed "The Abominable Hoons"

Shouldn't that be "abominable slowmen"

OOOH that burns Sausageman!!

That should be "abominable old fat man-breasted slowmen"

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Any chance of some of the sailors teaming up with local authorities to assist in maintaining the area or marking out dedicated walk ways etc, try to get a good news story.

The Mandurah Council contacted me today, they're going to help us work out a strategy, but I doubt any of the local papers are interested in publishing that sort of story.

I wouldn't say that all of us in the Mandurah Mob are nutters. OK, granted, some are close to the edge but we are, on the whole, improving immensely thanks to careful medication.

Every day we're getting a little bit better

We know that, unfortunately they have come to realize that we (collectively speaking) have done nothing illegal so they can only slag us of.

Fortunately we've always been in communications with the relevant authorities and are currently being proactive still working out guidelines.

Unfortunately, the Paddler's and bird watchers are extremely militant and are not shy in spreading a liberal amount hysteria and bulls1t around (and here we thought they were trying to reduce nutrient runoff), we should feel lucky that ANY watercraft not using a paddle is allowed on the 300km² of Peel inlet.

No doubt they have seen the comments on the news article and are muttering like Bominator when someone contradicts him.

An interesting recent post from Mr Lester on his Facebook page, expressing frustration at not getting any response from the Relevant Authorities. I wonder if this is in relation to the recent events on the Pond.

www.facebook.com/craig.lester.311/posts/1615529528725483?pnref=story#

decrepit said..

John340 said..
An interesting recent post from Mr Lester on his Facebook page, expressing frustration at not getting any response from the Relevant Authorities. I wonder if this is in relation to the recent events on the Pond.

www.facebook.com/craig.lester.311/posts/1615529528725483?pnref=story#

I haven't had much response either, neither calm or the two scientists that the council lady referred me onto have got back to me.
I've managed to acquire Craig's phone number, I'll give him a ring tomorrow, and see if we can't get some sort of sense happening, there's absolutely no need for a birdy/windsurfer war.

Mr Lester may well be feeling disgruntled because whoever he has written to hasn't immediately dropped everything else that he or she is being paid to do. This impatience is often a symptom of a feeling of self-importance and of having delusions of grandeur. The poor employee can't win.......if he or she does reply immediately to Mr Lester then any existing tasks won't be completed on schedule and the employee will be pilloried for inefficiency.
Staff receiving Mr Lester's letter may well have decided to pass it on up the line to a higher pay-grade......they won't want to get harangued....they've already got enough on their plate!!!
The public insinuations on his Facebook page, by both himself and others, that the "relevant authorities " are both uncaring and purely motivated by money are quite outrageous. Indeed, were those comments to have been made about Mr Lester and the commentators on his Facebook page I am sure they would be most offended.

Nicely put Jamie I cant wait to meet these people they might see a big bird in there binoculars the one from my middle finger!

Well I've had a nice constructive chat with Craig Lester, he's certainly no ogre, just a guy who's been retrieving sick and broken birds from the estuary, that have been run over by jet skis and the like. His negative reaction to Joanne's photos and her description of us running birds over is completely understandable.

He still thinks it's inappropriate for us to be in there, (the canoe club have agreed not to go in there) but he's prepared to live in the real world, and help us minimise any negative impact we may have on the environment.

As far as the Samphire goes, walking thru it can create trails which are then eaten out by hide tide storm surges, causing a loss of habitat. So it's probably better if we walk our rigs along the channel.

In the conditions we sail in there, birds especially swans are in there for the same reason, protection from the rough water.
Swans are in there to feed, they're grazing on all that bottom weed.
So if there is a flock in the way, sail through them as gently as possible so they cam move out the way without panicking, hopefully they'll move to a part of the lagoon we aren't using, if so do as little as possible to disturb them again.

I've invited Craig to join this discussion, please don't bite his head off, he didn't bite mine off.

Nice Mike.
Captain's innings indeed.

It might be worth checking if sailing gradually upwind at slower speed to the speed spot will result in the birds just flying upwind to the water upwind of the grass shore and settling there. It's a 20 second flight for them. They do seem to prefer to stay upwind of moving things they want to keep some space from. That might avoid actually sailing in between them. The moment you leave they will be back down to their preferred spot, which tends to indicate that the experience hasn't affected them much at all.