Thread: anyone found a float like this?

Looks like a Kaffir Lime

Originally Posted by d3syd

Looks like a Kaffir Lime

they have a name for limes with elephantitis

'I am not an Animal! .... I am a fruit!!"

The leaves and fruit are essential ingredients in Thai cooking. That ugly rind is the bit they use

Some of our fishing experts will probably know

I know we've picked up lots of floats over the years - all of them up in the northern parts of Australia.

A few years ago when we were at Shelbourne Bay, we met an American fellow who was touring around and he commented on all the flotsom washed up on the beaches on Cape York. He especially mentioned that there were hundreds of thongs.

Trying to hide a grin, we told him all the left foot thongs were washed up on our east coast and the right foot thongs were washed up on our west coast

He believed us!!

He was a nice bloke though.

We have only found one glass float, all the others have been plastic....lots of "ghost nets" as well, which are really bad for marine creatures.

Originally Posted by Bundalene

We have only found one glass float, all the others have been plastic....lots of "ghost nets" as well, which are really bad for marine creatures.

Good find, glass floats are worth a bit to collectors!

Yes, we were very lucky. This one still has the ropes hanging off it.

A friend of ours who lived in Coen (Cape York) had several glass floats that her husband found many years ago. She had them decorating her verandah....

I did ask her if I could buy them, but she wasn't interested.

Originally Posted by Benz

found this while cleaning up the beach a little while back.





It's a cray-pot float that looks like it has been crushed by pressure.
It feels heavy and is really hard, kinda like hard plastic.
it still floats though
any remaining paint on the float is stuck in the little creases on the surface.

Am I on the right track on what happened to the float?

anyone got a better idea?

kinda looks like what happens to foam cups when the visit the bottom of the ocean.

If found in WA waters then it is probably a Sandgroper's brain. The immersion in salt water has washed the taurine excreta out of it.

Bit rude;-)