Wintering over on South Sunk, 2km off shore from Hahei Beach
This is what beautiful Hahei Beach looks like throughout October, November and mid-week early December. Well, not exactly everyday but your chances of getting sunshine and calm seas are increasing by the hour. Although our water is still bordering on the crispy side of freshness, the air temperature is in the shorts and jandels zone and there were a few sunburnt shoulders walking through town yesterday evening. Good sign. . Josh is looking like he is push-starting the boat here but apparently they got out to sea and these happy souls enjoyed a Dive Experience with Josh and were pretty chuffed with their efforts under the water.
Josh has made a great 3 minute video clip featuring the big,fat,tasty, not-so-timid snapper Living on the Edge, South Sunk Rock, outside the Marine Reserve. Check out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jfqiKyTsC8
I’m not sure what these big fatties think they’re up to but, really, South Sunk is pretty well known and these guys spent a lot of time flirting with the camera. We look forward to seeing them back again over summer
Check out Josh’s full version of this video, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ16GqEcTDo
… the interaction and filming is amazing
Out for a good day spearing at Castle Rock, off Hot Water Beach, with a few of us Coro lads then, DRAMA… An average size mako shark comes in for a decent go on some of the freshly speared fish. After 30mins or so of careful judgement the mako becomes rather trustworthy and we began to feed her and even get the odd hand on her. An exhilarating experience to say the least and we were very lucky to get such a calm beast. At the end of the day it gave us the perception that this shark was friend not foe.
MEDITERRANEAN – Ten species, including hammerheads, tope, and shortfin mako, will now be strictly protected under the Barcelona Convention.
Oceana is extremely pleased that the EU has finally voted in favour of strictly protecting ten threatened species of sharks and rays in the Mediterranean Sea, under the Barcelona Convention.
These species, including hammerheads, tope, and shortfin mako, have declined dramatically in numbers – some by as much as 99 per cent during the last century – while others have vanished from parts of the Mediterranean where they were once common. The delayed decision of the EU was the final step needed to formalise their protection, to which the remaining countries within the convention had agreed in February.
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What were these two thinking – a winter morning on the last day of June? Josh thought he was gonna out do the old Rusty in the crayfish count (and size) but, alas, he was out done, again
