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Time to take up golf...
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Anyone want to go surf the new inlet? http://norwell.wickedlocal.com/article/ ... /140907884
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Johnysmoke wrote:Anyone want to go surf the new inlet? http://norwell.wickedlocal.com/article/ ... /140907884


Oh no! Too close to home! (although the description is not necessarily of a great white.... and the capture of a seal is really doubtful...)

Not at all thrilled about this.
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I have the perfect solution to keep seals and probably sharks away. Keep a camera in your PFD pocket. As soon as you start to pull out a camera to get a picture of a seal that is out in open water, they dive and you never see them again. I assume (or hope) the same would work for a shark.
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The girls who got knocked out of their kayaks were shooting with a go pro, so I think that debunks that theory. I'm just thinking of all those seals out by Minot light that come back in this time of year, must be like a buffet, I just don't want to be mistaken as an appetizer.
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noseykate wrote:
Johnysmoke wrote:Anyone want to go surf the new inlet? http://norwell.wickedlocal.com/article/ ... /140907884


Oh no! Too close to home! (although the description is not necessarily of a great white.... and the capture of a seal is really doubtful...)

Not at all thrilled about this.


Take me to the river!
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cgr wrote:
noseykate wrote:
Johnysmoke wrote:Anyone want to go surf the new inlet? http://norwell.wickedlocal.com/article/ ... /140907884


Oh no! Too close to home! (although the description is not necessarily of a great white.... and the capture of a seal is really doubtful...)

Not at all thrilled about this.


Take me to the river!


Those rivers have got to be pretty dry right about now... :(
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noseykate wrote:
Those rivers have got to be pretty dry right about now... :(


We had two days of water on the West last weekend, with sun and 80 degrees. Sunday there were no lift lines.

Foliage seems behind schedule.

Still no sharks
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Going to need a bigger boat, or a pet Orca...
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I remember that Brian Schulz of Cape Falcon Kayaks once did a trip through Tiger-shark-infested waters by painting zebra stripes on the bottom of his kayak.

http://www.capefalconkayak.com/Hawaii2.html
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Maybe I'll get seal decals for the bottom of whomever's boat I happen to be paddling with. Hopefully I'm worked up over nothing, people on the west coast have been dealing with them forever. I'm just glad I got the majority of my swimming over with a few years ago, but we all are just between swims.
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Maybe there's a new business opportunity in tiger stripe decals for kayak hulls.
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norm wrote:Maybe there's a new business opportunity in tiger stripe decals for kayak hulls.


I have some experience in that department.
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I'm sure you'll scare the shark right off the top of your deck when it gets there :shock:
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Cape cod online has a link today for 14 footer tracked inside well fleet harbor. Probably because of the seal colony that we love to visit.
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One swam through the surfers lineup down near the inlet at Nauset. Cleared most of the surfers out, then the shark research boat showed up trying to tag it. Just a 17 footer...
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My wife and I were surfing with friends at Folly Beach in South Carolina probably 10+ years ago. Perfect conditions, Sarah, who isn't that comfortable in the surf, was really putting it all together, making some great runs. A few hundred yards down the beach, another paddler had a decent sized shark bite the stern of his boat. Teeth still embedded, surf session over.
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