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Humpies in town!
We were in a meeting on the shore of Betty's Bay today when we got a call about a lot of commotion in the water off Sunny Seas. Was it the orcas?? Jumping up we got to see and watch a great display by a big humpback whale close to shore, probably about 30 tons. He was flipper flapping (a real term), slapping the water hard with his long pectoral fins. Usually the humpies are more active at the beginning of the season as they announce their presence and become boisterous in the excitement of the build up to mating. Once you see the large pectoral fin of a humpback whale it cannot be confused with any other. It gets to about 15 feet long!! Even their Latin name Megaptera novaeangliae means 'long-winged New Englander'.
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Lack of Resources Hampering Police Stations
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Disaster Management Plan 2019 – Public Participation
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Plot Clearing Policy 2019 – Comments Requested
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Betty’s Bay ‘Crime’ Scene – 5 dead sharks [Updated]
After being alerted by a local resident, Michelle, on Saturday night that there were 5 dead sharks on Main Beach, Betty’s Bay we walked the beach looking for their corpses to try to figure out what might be the cause of their deaths. Finding four of the five in the darkness, they all showed exactly the same apparent cause of death. Namely that their throats seemed to have been ripped out. They were cowsharks, or sevengill sharks, the oldest sharks in the shark evolutionary ladder. They are rare sharks.
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