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Shark surfs kalk bay

  • Spy Dude
    January 2009
    Hey all.

    Yup the False Bay was blessed with some epic waves of late. Me local... fired for 5 days in a row. Sold 3-6ft waves pounded the coast, heck even Simons town had waves. The winds played ball. Those who hit the dawny were graced with either no wind or gentle offshores fluffing the barrels to puurfect. The tides were on the low side every morning which kept the crowds at bay.

    The 29th was another absolute classic day, i surfed from 7am to 1:30pm, at which stage the tide had come in enough to allow all the stand ups a chance at snagging a few cylinders. Every one from Roosta to Stubby paddled out. (at one stage like 35 dudes out, a mixture of old and young Booger and Stand up) Naturally with this amount of "talent" in the water, i headed in, got the cameras and missioned to the bell. Shot off some classic images in sublime light. The wind turned south, things got manky of note. The clouds came over and it started raining. So i packed up and was walking back along the railway lines when I saw Tristan Gardner freefall his surfboard and boogy board it in over the right at kbay (for those of you who don’t know, kbay is generally a left, the right, even for boogers is a nasty shallow barnacle encrusted slab that has 2 inches of water on it at the best of times) Weird i thought for a surfer to do that, maybe he needed a s***t and had to get in to the beach ASAP.

    That was not the case!

    2:30pm Tristan Gardner and David Stubbs were sitting a little further out from the rest of the pack, waiting for the bigger ones. The rain had settled in and the sets were few and far between, when all of a sudden (according to stubby) this White shark pops its head out of the water (like 2-3 meters away), like what you see on those cage diving videos... and checks them out. Stubby recons you could see the eye shifting from him to Tristan and back to him, it was one serious up close and personal. They then got all religious like and walked on water back the beach, the entire line up cleared in like 10 seconds flat. Thank God a set arrived then and there and it was a single family wave with NO wipeouts.

    The crew recounted in the car park after how different people had noticed a fin, or a swoosh under their boards, for the last half an hour but had not paid it much attention as the seals that play on the reef had a bad habit of playing shark (swimming with one fin sticking out) and love to swim under your board and blow bubbles or as most bodyboarders know, take playful bites at our swim fins. It was only till the shark breached its head that everyone realised who it was.

    No one was attacked and i was back out in the waves the following morning at 6:45 for more fun in the warm water. Funnily enough, there was very little crowds till like 10 am, just me and a kneelo for most of the morning, trading barrels and laughs. Good times.

    Anyways
    felt i should share the experience.

    happy new year kids!

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  • rickyrabbott
    January 2009
    haha sick story. kinda felt bummed when it had ended..
    defo cool to share that cause
    reminds me why i DONT surf false bay or didnt(b4 i left) i mean.

    anyways takecare in those waters ye !!
  • ElementreeElementree
    January 2009
    Ha ha...classic!

    Deon Meyer called me earlier and told me the story...said he was out when all this happened.

    Pretty freaky, but in hindsight - WHAT A RUSH!
  • Scarecrow
    January 2009
    Wahaha! Yeah I was out at the Bay a couple of times over the last few weeks, even had one surf into the dark until the handful of us in the water couldn't see the waves coming in anymore. Pretty freaky when I consider what was probably lurking out there checking us out! Thankfully no sightings or incidents...but plenty of SICK barrels and sections were had 8)
  • Scarecrow
    January 2009
    You know what they say about Karma and all of that...well it's true :oops:

    After laughing about the okes being chased out at Kbay by a shark, I had the displeasure of being in the same situation yesterday evening at Kbay reef. Small contouring waves, warm water, tide dropping and two of us out. We were sitting out at the back chatting (stangely enough it was about the fishermen on the harbour wall and the guts and bait being washed into the harbour water) when we noticed a shape coming in straight towards us on a swell. It was cruising below the surface and we initially thought it was a seal as they do this often at the Reef. It got to within 20m of us very quickly and we were joking that it was moving very fast for a seal, next thing it veered of towards St James as if it had been scared off and it was then that we noticed that it was in fact a SHARK!!!!!!! Must've been pretty funny for all the wkend tourists checking two surfers walking on water!

    It def wasn't a Great White as it's snout was too pointed and it's body was too sleak. From the shape of it, it was either a Mako or a Blue shark. Either way we didn't stick around to find out and Kbay went unridden for the rest of the evening! :evil:
  • Spy Dude
    January 2009
    Tis the season for the sharks... not a blue shark as they only live in deep water and never come close to the coast.
  • peterbee
    January 2009
    Yikes, Julien... have you washed the pooh out of your wetsuit yet?

    Surfed Hoek Saturday morning and through the midday, eventually there were just two of us out and Sam and Rory and a bunch of other guys were waving and whistling etc from the rocks... reckoned it was a set wave so started drifting outwards a bit. Took a wave, got worked, then had a hectic series of duckdive beatings when the set REALLY came in, but I wasn't gonna give up, because I reckoned everyone was watching and they'd warned me about the set so I'd look a tosser... eventually got out, they're all waving and stuff, so I reckon, wow, another set... again take the wrong wave, get beat, etc. After about twenty minutes we were over it and caught one each out.

    Which was when everyone was saying, what's the matter, you stupid? We were waving that there was a shark - all the guys on the other side got out... Wish I'd caught just one decent barrel during that time, seeing as we were risking our butts :-/
  • DavidC
    January 2009
    Similar sort of thing happened to me a few weeks back at my local break here in KZN. A storm had washed the rivers out so the sea was pooh brown and bathing was banned and the lifeguards wouldnt let me go out. The shorey was pretty solid so I thought i would go a few hundred meters down the beach where there were no lifeguards. I figured because I was so close to shore, like 10m out that the risk of a shark basically non existent. After about an hour, some vaalies were waving to me from the beach and calling me in. When I got to shore they reckon they saw a shark swimming in the area I was surfing. Thats the last time I risk it in dirty water. I honestly didnt think a shark would come so close in to shore. Got some nice waves though.
  • ChilternburtChilternburt
    January 2009
    hmm could years back i surfed North Beach after a massive storm... water was chocolate brown but about 4 feet and perfect so a couple of us surfed in front of the pier.. was fun and no shark incidents..
    i did however contract Yellow Jaundice and Hepatitis which meant 3 weeks in Hospital, no alcohol for 6 months and it has relapsed once about 2 years later so another 2 weeks in hospital plus another LONG dry spell of no alcohol..
    so dont always assume the dangers are under the waves...
  • Spy Dude
    January 2009
    yup, thats what happens when the ANC runs yr municipality.... it all goes to SHIET.
  • lyle
    January 2009
    yo spy, since you mentioned the ANC heres a little chuckle for everyone :D

    A farmer named Van was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture
    in Limpopo when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud
    towards him.
    The driver, a young black man in a n Armani suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan
    sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the farmer , 'If I
    tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you
    give me a calf?'

    Van looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully
    grazing herd and calmly answers; 'Sure, Why not?'

    The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it
    to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the
    Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his
    location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area
    in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

    The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports
    it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany .

    Within mere seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image
    has been processed and the data is stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL
    database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his
    Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

    Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,
    miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the farmer and says,
    'You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.'

    'That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,' says
    Van .
    He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as
    the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

    Then Van says to the young man, 'Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your
    business is, will you give me back my calf?'
    ! The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, 'Okay, why
    not?'

    'You're a Member of Parliament for the ANC Party', says Van .

    'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you guess
    that?'

    'No guessing required.', answered the farmer . 'You showed up here
    even
    though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
    knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter
    than me you are; and you don't know a thing about cows...this is a herd of
    sheep. . . .Now give me back my dog.
  • Spy Dude
    January 2009
    bwwwwhahahhahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... brilliant!!!!!!
  • craigtrilivascraigtrilivas
    January 2009
    I surfed Yzerfontein with Aadam, Grant Greg Fraser and Pik a few days ago and soon after I got out after a good beating from a beast set, Aadam & Greg got out also claiming to have seen a bugger.
    Said he was dark, sleek and had a pretty pointy nose.
    Also coming up and eying them out!

    Fak me :shock:

    About a day after that Greg said he had to mission up onto the rocks ( well ride the tide onto them rather ) infront at the Hoek at high tide cos the okes were screaming & shouting cos of another sighting.
    Think it was probably the same day as one of the prior posts :|

    Looks like tis the season to be on the safer side methinks.

    Lekker.
  • Spy Dude
    January 2009
    Personally i blame KFC, Coke and Macdonals.... If the MJC can blame them, so can i. And all those corperations are controlled by cage divers.. the scum of the oceans...
  • tully07
    January 2009
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