LATE ARVO DIVE 28-08-08
Submitted by GOATRUTAR on Fri, 2008-08-29 10:03.
I went for a dive late yesterday afternoon with the Mastiff and Chukka, when we hit the water we were greeted by Free Willy!!
A pair of free willies had swam around the boat while we were getting kitted up.Once in they cruised around us not caring too much!
The ledges were loaded with hooter crays!
This big fella come out for a look and wasn't worried at all!
Lucky for him its not season!
Next ledge was loaded too with alot of jumbo's mixed in with some really good size ones!
More Jumbos
A little black bum having a sticky beak!
One of a couple of harlies cruising around!
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Dreamweaver
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Goat - code
Matt, replace those with the IMG code from pb and they'll show.
Colin Molloy
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diji
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Every time you go out
its free willy???
nice pics that whale must of crapped itself when it seen something in the water with a bigger head than his!lol
Adam Gallash
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great pics
Awesome photo's Matt. All those crays have got me fired up, cmon Nov!
Ollie
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awsome work goat looks like
awsome work goat looks like some one's going to be eating very well next cray season.
good spot u got there
ollie
GOATRUTAR
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I stuffed a heap up as the
I stuffed a heap up as the bubbles got in view but will suss it out!
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deefa
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Awesome free willy pics
Awesome free willy pics Rutar, what an experience that must've been.
Those crays are lookin tasty eh.
GOATRUTAR
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Does anyone know what sort
Does anyone know what sort of freewilly it is!Southern right perhaps!!!!
Big prick!
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deefa
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humpback?? Just doin a
humpback??
Just doin a little research m'self Rutar, apparently Sthn Rights have no Dorsal..?
GOATRUTAR
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Deef I'm not sure it
Deef I'm not sure it was!
Wrong shaped head I thought...........i think........well its not a dolphin and if it is it needs to be drug tested!!LOL!
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GOATRUTAR
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Its got a hooked
Its got a hooked dorsal!
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deefa
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Yeah- i can see the dorsal
Yeah- i can see the dorsal on the one in ya piccies, was reading though thgat southern rights have no dorsal at all.
http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/coasts/whales/intro.html
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Who knows then mate! IF
Who knows then mate!
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tommo77
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yeah
humpbacks!
check that: - i could be wrong
http://www.whaleworld.org/All_About_Whales/Types_of_Whales/
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Fantastic pics Matt
I have had a look at a number of whale picture galleries and they do look something like humpback whales, but the colouring on the front flukes looks different. Are you able to estimate how large they were?
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8m...ish! They look
8m...ish!
They look different!
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Colin Hay
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Minke whales?
From the pictures I have seen on the web they look the closest.
SIZE
Minke whales grow to be about 25-30 feet (7.8-9 m) long, weighing about 6-7.5 tons (5.4-6.8 tonnes).. Females are about 2 feet (0.6 m) longer than males, as with all baleen whales. The largest minke whale was about 35 feet (10.5 m) long weighing 9.5 tons (8.6 tonnes).. Minke whales have a snout that is distinctively triangular, narrow, and pointed (hence its nicknames "sharp-headed finner" and "little piked whale").
SKIN, SHAPE AND FINS
The minke whale's skin is very dark gray above and lighter below, sometimes with pale trapezoidal stripes behind the flippers on the top. Minke whales have a characteristic white band on each flipper (this is absent on the southern minke whales).
Minke whales are stocky, having a layer of blubber several inches thick. They have 50-70 throat grooves, running from the chin to the mid-section. The minke whale has two long flippers (up to 1/8 of the body size), a small dorsal fin, and a series of small ridges along the its back near the flukes (tail).
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Could of been me but I wasnt
Could of been me but I wasnt swimming anywhere yesty
GOATRUTAR
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the bearded minki!LOL! IF
the bearded minki!LOL!
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Neander
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Been called a bearded Clam
Been called a bearded Clam before but never a bearded minki!!
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minki it is! There is two
minki it is!
There is two there in the pic but one is hard to make out!
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what depth were you diving
what depth were you diving goat??
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GOATRUTAR
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22m IF IT SMELLS LIKE
22m
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late dive
Great photos
Fast fish rule!
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where was this dive?? Bit
where was this dive??
Bit unusual for Whales to come close enough in to most dive locations in the metro area yeh?
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Local mate not far out at
Local mate not far out at all!
I saw a humpback in cockburn sound with Rockpom when the salmon were running!
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WHALES
HAD THREE OF THE SAME WHALES HANGING AROUND THE BOAT OFF TWO ROCKS YESTERDAY AWESOME
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Great Pic mate
wish i could do that .dive i mean
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wikiddd!
matty i'm getting my cert over the next couple of weeks!!!
Hows that for a nest of reds! I would have been giving them a good tickle and offered them a bit of old bait to fatten them up Hansel-and-Gretel style!
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Two months to fatten them up
Two months to fatten them up mate and they aren't going anywhere!
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nov
if i were you mate, i,d be going there opening day.. get those jumbos, before they walk.. good pics mate, whale would of been a buzz.. i been under up near exxy and heard them, and dived here local afew times seen loads of dolphins,,
well done there goat.. great story n pics.
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top pics matt, would have
top pics matt, would have been awesome seeing those whales, and looks like some top crays to be had soon too
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looks like
you might be giving the prawns a miss soon with all them crays about
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Goat's whales identified
Matt, I hope you don't mind, but I asked a guy at the WA Museum for an identification of the whales you spotted.
This is his reply.
Dear Colin,
It’s a nice underwater photo of a dwarf minke whale, a probable subspecies of the common minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata, though yet to be formally described. The species is probably quite common off this coast, but is best known off the east coast where in the Great Barrier Reef it is the subject of a popular ‘swim with whales’ programme.
The sharp pointed head, prominent dorsal fin, and in particular the white patch on the flipper going up on to the shoulder, are quite diagnostic.
Information on this and other ‘Great Whales’ is given in my recent book ‘Great Whales’, in the Australian Natural History series, published by CSIRO Publishing and (hopefully) available at most good booksellers, including the Museum Bookshop in Perth. Minke whales, including this one, are dec=scribed on pp73-76, and a color picture very similar to this one is reproduced on p 67 as well as on the back cover!
John Bannister
John Bannister
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Good stuff Colin as I'm keen
Good stuff Colin as I'm keen to know too!
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Colin Hay
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Your welcome Matt
It was a great pic and it really grabbed my interest.
PS. I love how he gave his book a plug
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Do jumbos walk?
Hey Matt do you reckon jumbos walk? I had a couple spots that had big jumbos on them and we always left some so they would attract other crays. But one of the guys I took out there went back during the year and cleaned them all out. The last couple of times I checked it out, it was empty. Just wondering if they will come back 28 metres deep
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Ask Rockpom mate he will no
Ask Rockpom mate he will no as I have no idea.
2 of the 3 marks had jumbo's and 1 is a monster.
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