Cool Sunday in OBX

That's tight, thanks for sharing obx has flora and fauna that I had no idea was there until a year or two ago

 

Oh great! You've got great white bait up there now!!!

 

Very cool encounter

 

that is not a good sight at all, id hope for them to go away soon the whites are going to be comming in close. i mean yall go deep water just off shore so they can get in close.

 

I think you got it wrong. That thing looks like it just ate a great white. What a fat a$$!

 

Cool to see that far south, but that just means it's a colder than normal winter. I've seen them sporadically over the years in Virginia Beach. First time was in the 90s, I happened to see two of them playing around the jetty. I thought to myself, "what the hell are dogs doing swimming out this far in the winter?" Then I realized they were seals. It was kind of freaky being I had never surfed around seals before.

 

Well this is the last thing I needed to see before heading up there on a trip next week. Looks like I'm gonna be sharing the lineup with mary lee and our blubbery friend here

 

Same thing happened to be up in Maine. First thought was "WTF is this dog doing this far out".

 

Nice, what kinda rig did ya catch that on?

For real though, it's only a matter of time before they're spotted in Fl. Right?

 

Same thing happened to me in AI. First thought was "WTF is the gnome doing this far out without his plank?"

 

yank, thats a good question, one time i saw a whale here and though wtf is that dude from new jersey flopping so far on the outside doing, then i saw it was a whale and was re-leaved.

 

haha classic. i love the face he/she is making. Ive been chased around by seals twice. once at 1st street last spring and once when i surfed out in washington state. funny things seals are

 

That's really cool, I always enjoy spotting some wildlife. I doubt this means there are any more GW sharks than normal though, and I doubt it means they are coming in close to shore anymore than they already do either. In case you guys weren't aware, they (GW's) are just about ANYWHERE in any ocean. One was caught about a mile offshore from Treasure Island FL in the Gulf not too long ago. Then there are those that are all up and down the East Coast, Mary Lee being one of them, spotted just offshore in JAX FL. They don't require really deep water all the time, don't fool yourselves.

 

I'm only speaking for the SC area here but it's no question that GWs are out there and even coming rather close to the beaches and in-shore in some cases (errant pings???). The word on the street is they're following right whales that are giving birth or that are very young. In other words, things that probably won't get confused with a guy bobbing on a board. If the seal population explosion makes it's way down south it's only logical that the big boys will follow and that the GW population will increase with the seal population.

There is still an incredibly small chance of having a toothy encounter with any shark.

Chavez, got any good seal recipes?

 

I rescued a grey seal pup once. Washed ashore near camp cronin, point judith. Called the little guy in to Mystic Aquarium, they picked him up after 24 hrs of observing, and after about 6 months I was invited to release him.

Pretty cool to them close up on the beach, even cooler when they aren't dying, but you gotta watch they can be aggressive. Pretty far south this year, I've only seen 3 up here this year.

 

I have always disagreed with science on increase of shark population based on seals moving into different areas. I wouldn't be surprised if only 10% of all great whites were tagged and tracked, and the ones being tagged are the ones that are easy to tag, the ones that fit into the scientific theory that they follow certain food sources.

While GW's may follow food, I wouldn't be surprised if alot of them stick to certain areas eating whats on the table. Fish are too interesting to make assumptions like this.

 

Well done Mr. Wasteland, good for you for saving that pup. That's cool they invited you to the release.

 

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I agree with you that we'll never know the full scope of what's happening underwater. And that's cool if you disagree with the migratory tendencies that are exemplified by tons of species in land, water and air.

Do you really disagree with a abundant food source positively affecting the population? Wild animals have two things on their mind: Feeding and Fvcking. That's pretty much it.

I give you this example. These are two Puerto Rican cats from Rincon. When we arrived at the Rincon Inn, they were fighting day and night. We fed them our scraps from breakfast and they ate a hearty dinner of the finest C grade Puerto Rican meats I couldn't ingest. Their attitudes changed immediately and, well, the rest is history as you can see.