Thread: Shark attacks kangaroo

Originally Posted by Hymie

I saw a roo get taken by a shark off Golden Beach in Victoria about 10 years ago. Pretty impressive to see!

A couple of keen fishermen from work have seen the roo's down at golden beach, apparently they dig for pippies as the tide goes out.

Have seen roos in the surf east of Esperance before, but never seen a shark having a go at them. Would have been quite an unusual sight.

What I did see a few years ago was a wedge tailed eagle having a go at a small joey on the side of the road north of Meekatharra. I was travelling up to a mine site with another bloke, and we actually stopped the car and watched this for about 5 minutes. It was a very hot, dry spell, and the joey and its mother were close to the road, and obviously not in good condition.

The eagle swooped down from surrounding tree branches a number of times and grabbed the joey, trying to lift it off the ground and drag it away. It didn't have enough power to lift the joey completely, but did manage to lift it a metre or so off the ground on a couple of occasions. On each occasion, as the eagle got hold of the joey and tried to carry it away, the joey's mother would attack the eagle and chase it off back into nearby trees.

This went on for at least 5 minutes that we saw and, of course, not a camera in the car. It was one of the most incredible sights in nature that both I and the bloke in the car with me (who was in his 60's) had ever seen. Eventually the eagle gave up, but by this time the joey was pretty badly damaged and I'd say wouldn't have survived. There's a good chance that the eagle would eventually have had his feed.

Originally Posted by 6.5rangie

A couple of keen fishermen from work have seen the roo's down at golden beach, apparently they dig for pippies as the tide goes out.

So they can go fishing ?

smart shark...

cutting out the middleman so to speak...

they usually go the dogs, not the dogs tucker ....

About a month ago as I was whale watching at Jameson Point, a bit north of Narooma, I saw a kangaroo doing what could only be described as playing around in the surf.
I saw it first hopping along the sand before it headed into the surf until it was knocked over by a couple of waves. It returned to the beach for a short time and then headed back into the surf and repeated this half a dozen times over about 20 minutes.
At times it was in water up to about it neck, so when a wave came, it was bowled over and it just kept coming back for more.
There was no sign that it was trying to escape from any predator and seemed unconcerned by a couple of people about 20 or 30 yards further along the beach.
It must have been in the surf for at least 15 of the 20 minutes that I was watching.
A couple of days ago I saw something in Column 8 of the SMH where someone from Ulladulla was confirming that kangaroos enter the surf, saying he had seen one at Durras.
Maybe it's a South Coast thing.

Amazing.
I had no idea a Kangaroo would do that

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Whats that Skip ?????

You're swimming out to meet Flipper ???






Bugger........ That wasn't Flipper.

Originally Posted by adm333

tsch....tsch....tsch

Whats that Skip ?????

You're swimming out to meet Flipper ???






Bugger........ That wasn't Flipper.