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OFFSHORE ANGLING => General Offshore Angling Discussion => Topic started by: dugong on May 23, 2018, 01:51:01 PM

Title: Minke whales
Post by: dugong on May 23, 2018, 01:51:01 PM: Anyone ever seen Minke Whales off our coast, I had a number of them around my boat a few weeks back :dunno:
Title: Re: Minke whales
Post by: Rory mundy on May 23, 2018, 02:14:14 PM: We once bumped into a huge school of some type of whale/ huge dolphin that we could never identify was very pale in color but must have been 50 of them
Title: Re: Minke whales
Post by: FFF on May 23, 2018, 03:14:14 PM: We had them off Twini couple years back. Thought it was Killer whales at first.
Title: Re: Minke whales
Post by: Serra Moz on May 24, 2018, 02:47:13 AM: Strange to see them this close to SA..... spotted lots of them down South..... the real down South = Antarctica
Title: Re: Minke whales
Post by: dugong on May 24, 2018, 08:30:37 AM: Quote from: Rory mundy on May 23, 2018, 02:14:14 PM
We once bumped into a huge school of some type of whale/ huge dolphin that we could never identify was very pale in color but must have been 50 of them
Quote from: FFF on May 23, 2018, 03:14:14 PM
We had them off Twini couple years back. Thought it was Killer whales at first.

Exactly our encounter but we had about 40mins with them, sometimes 3m under the boat so could identify.......using Google :nuts:
Title: Re: Minke whales
Post by: Plugger on May 24, 2018, 02:21:40 PM: Only Minke I've seen is van der westhuizen and she's no whale ! :hehe: :hehe: :hehe:
Title: Re: Minke whales
Post by: colin on May 24, 2018, 04:53:07 PM: Quote from: colin on May 24, 2018, 04:52:20 PM
Quote from: Plugger

Only Minke I've seen is van der westhuizen and she's no whale ! :hehe: :hehe: :hehe:

:corrct: Bruce :hyst: :hyst: :toppie:
Title: Re: Minke whales
Post by: Nooduck on May 25, 2018, 12:45:58 PM: Quote from: colin on May 24, 2018, 04:53:07 PM
Quote from: colin on May 24, 2018, 04:52:20 PM
Quote from: Plugger

Only Minke I've seen is van der westhuizen and she's no whale ! :hehe: :hehe: :hehe:

:corrct: Bruce :hyst: :hyst: :toppie:

(clap) :hnthnt: :hnthnt:
Title: Re: Minke whales
Post by: John F on May 25, 2018, 11:56:43 PM: Quote from: Plugger on May 24, 2018, 02:21:40 PM
Only Minke I've seen is van der westhuizen and she's no whale ! :hehe: :hehe: :hehe:

Had to Google her and.. yeap she's no whale... more like a wala :hyst: