Dolphins playing with big Sting Rays
Submitted by Red Dog on Fri, 2014-11-07 13:09
I was out having a paddle on the yak yesterday morning out behind Tern Island in Safety Bay when I came across these two dolphins 'playing' with a couple of BIG rays.
At first I thought they may have been feeding together and half expected to see a school of bait fish or something when I saw the footage but there was nothing that I could see.
It was a pretty cool sight - gonna have to start carrying a set of goggles and flippers on board - would have loved to have had a dive with them.
Excuse the shaky footage, I got this with the GoPro on the pole. In these situations the GoPro's really are a PAH camera - Point And Hope.
Anyone else seen them behaving like this?
Vid runs for 58 secs - best in HD: www.youtube.com/watch
crasny1
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Cool
Now wonder what the interest might have been.
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Jim
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Id say the dolphin is waiting
Id say the dolphin is waiting for the stingray to flush out a squid or two. Good footage
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sheldoncy23
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how far off the beach were
how far off the beach were you? woulda been a pretty epic sight though
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Cool footage. Music goes
Cool footage. Music goes well too.
Super peg
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awesome mate, ive seen this
awesome mate, ive seen this on a nature doco once, supposedly they wait for crabs and such to get startled n flee the rays. good work
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Nice video, some great
Nice video, some great footage. Something you don't see too often
Paul H
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good video,given the wide
good video,
given the wide angle of gopro's I'm not quite sure its point and hope as if you point it at what you want to get its a bit hard to miss (not always dead centre but you usually get it)
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Red Dog
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Thanks for the comments and
Thanks for the comments and for watching. Looks like the general consensus is that the dolphins are just hanging for an easy feed which makes sense in retrospect.
@sheldoncy23, this was about 200m South of Tern Island which is the local name for the sand spit that is slowly growing out from Safety Bay yacht club, so that would have put me about 400m from the actual shoreline.
@Paul H, don't mean to sound like i'm knocking the GoPro, they're an awesome bit of kit. Certainly a lot easier when your setting up a fixed position on the boat or whatever and you can use your iPad or phone as a monitor to see how your shot is framed. In this instance I had the wind blowing me one way, the dolphs and rays going the other and only one pair of hands to paddle and film - I was so wrapped that i got anything.
Again thanks for the comments, you put this stuff out there in the hope that you don't make too much of a dick of yourself so if a few people get to enjoy that's great
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Paul H
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No problems. - biggest
No problems. - biggest problem with hand held shooting is keeping the camera steady rather than it waving all over the place which does not make for good viewing.
majority of your footage was pretty steady so you did well.
Cheers
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real
cool vid
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