twobobs
20-08-2010, 07:10 AM
Hi there all,
Just thought I will share with you guys what I saw in the canal outside my place in Mermaid Waters/ Gold Coast on Thursday and to see if it was anything unusual?
I was down mucking about on my boat, standing in an elevated position above the water when out of the corner of my eye I see this dark shape moving through the water.It wasn't that big , about 300mm long,so my 1st thought was a mullet but this thing was moving too fast and eratically. It then swam into the shallows below me and that is whenI saw it was a small tuna of some description. It went away and came back again and I got a real good look to convince myself I wasn't seeing things, it was a tuna. It was chasing small baitfish in about .5m of clear water so visability wasn't a problem. I could even see its tail beating side to side flat out as tuna do.
Where I live I am about 4km from the Nerang river and then about another 10km to the seaway.
Is this unusual for a tuna to be so far up the canal system? and has any body else seen things where they don't belong.
Twobobs
Just thought I will share with you guys what I saw in the canal outside my place in Mermaid Waters/ Gold Coast on Thursday and to see if it was anything unusual?
I was down mucking about on my boat, standing in an elevated position above the water when out of the corner of my eye I see this dark shape moving through the water.It wasn't that big , about 300mm long,so my 1st thought was a mullet but this thing was moving too fast and eratically. It then swam into the shallows below me and that is whenI saw it was a small tuna of some description. It went away and came back again and I got a real good look to convince myself I wasn't seeing things, it was a tuna. It was chasing small baitfish in about .5m of clear water so visability wasn't a problem. I could even see its tail beating side to side flat out as tuna do.
Where I live I am about 4km from the Nerang river and then about another 10km to the seaway.
Is this unusual for a tuna to be so far up the canal system? and has any body else seen things where they don't belong.
Twobobs