Take a look at the size of this shark caught in South Africa:
PHOTOS that are being circulated of a monster Great White shark, taken at Mossel Bay, are not a hoax. And what’s more, the massive shark was an adolescent, and was caught off the Dolphin Coast of KwaZulu-Natal.
Yesterday, Craig Harris of Dirty Harry Fishing Charters told The Witness that waters around the north coast are teeming with sharks, including Great Whites.
He said previously it would have been unusual to see one Great White every three years, but he has seen four this year already.
Harris said he recently witnessed an astounding incident in which an enormous Great White robbed fishermen of their catch.
The Witness tracked down fisherman Gary McLoughlin, who said the incident occurred while he was on his paddleski fishing in the waves of Zinkwazi about three months ago.
“We had hooked a barracuda and were fighting it, when a massive Great White shark, about three-and-a-half to four metres in length and weighing between 600 to 700?kg, breached the waves and grabbed the barracuda.”
He speculated that it could have been the same shark that was photographed.
McLoughlin said the shark breached right up out of the water five or six times trying to remove the lines from the fish.
Commenting on the shark in the photographs, Geremy Cliff, head of research at the KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board, confirmed that the 4,3-metre shark was caught in the shark nets off Zinkwazi beach on August 31. [
After she lays a cluster – between five and 20 – of beautiful dark green eggs, the mother emu leaves the nesting area and never returns. The chicks are reared by their father for up to two years.
Via Australian Geographic.
The young of the Pademelon develops much the same as that of the wallaby - the key difference is the difference in size between the two species.
Via Australian Geographic.
Pictured is wombat orphan Yango, just one of the infants nursed back to health by the Cedar Creek organisation.
Via Australian Geographic.
First there was naked Air New Zealand crews, then there was the naked mom hoax, and now here is yet another odd story about a nude woman coming out of New Zealand:
A SERIES of steamy naked photographs in Australian Penthouse may have cost a young Kiwi primary school teacher her career.
The New Zealand Teachers Council has revealed it is investigating 26-year-old Rachel Whitwell after she appeared in the “New Aussie Babes” section of the magazine’s website professing to love pornography.
The shots show Ms Whitwell kneeling seductively in front of a piano and frolicking in a spa, and quote the woman, nicknamed “Lexy”, as saying: “I am a 26-year-old single school teacher from New Zealand that would love to get into modelling.”
“I’ve written erotic stories for an R-rated magazine and run my own pole dancing studio.”
Ms Whitwell, who is the girlfriend of Kiwi multi-millionaire porn movie distributor Steve Crow, appears in six photos in all, including two totally naked.
New Zealand’s Teachers Council director Peter Lind said an investigation was under way to see whether she should be struck off the teaching register. [AAP]
Here is a word of advice to teachers don’t pose nude and expect to keep your job. If you want to be a model go for it, but don’t be a teacher at the same time. By the way she does have the looks to be a model, but definitely not the judgement to be a teacher.
It looks like this shark is having a feast for himself over in Queensland:
Whale carcasses left to rot in south-east Queensland’s Moreton Bay could be attracting a monster shark believed to be lurking in the area.
A three-metre plus white pointer caught on drum line off Stradbroke Island was found dead and covered in massive bite marks last week.
Queensland Fisheries Minister Tim Mulherin said the bite marks had a radius of 50 centimetres and the distinctive triangular shape of a white pointer.
“The experts believe it would have taken a white pointer at least five metres long to cause this kind of damage,” he said. [ABC News]
You might want to wait for a few weeks before swimming in this area. 
This is just incrediblly cruel:
A woman accused of drowning a newborn baby before cutting it in half has faced a committal hearing in far north Queensland.
Violet Flora Evans, 52, today faced Cairns Magistrates Court charged with murder, concealing a birth and interfering with a corpse.
The baby’s severed torso was found on a Mooroobool driveway on May 4, 1996.
It is alleged the baby was drowned, cut in half and buried, before dogs dragged the dismembered body to the driveway.
Evans was charged last August after new information became available through DNA technology and a public tip-off. [9 News]
I guess this is supposed to make us all feel sorry for Schapelle Corby:
HANGING murders, corruption, paid sex and widespread drug abuse are part of everyday life in the Indonesian jail housing Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine.
A new book by Corby biographer Kathryn Bonella gives a rare insight into the lives of prisoners inside Bali’s notorious Kerobokan Jail, dubbed “Hotel K”.
Bonella, who spent 18 months interviewing prisoners and guards in Kerobokan, said she encountered a world where “the unbelievable fast became ordinary”.
“I was fascinated with this crazy world of drugs, sex and gambling – where pedophiles, serial killers and rapists sleep alongside card sharks, petty thieves and unlucky tourists caught at a club with one or two ecstasy pills in their pocket,” she writes in the book, Hotel Kerobokan.
Among that mix is Corby, who has spent five years in the jail for marijuana possession and who, Bonella says, has become immune to the daily horrors.
“Finding a dead prisoner hanging by a noose one morning barely caused her to react,” she writes.
“I saw her shortly afterwards, and she was totally calm.
“Her detachment was chilling. And the inmates all knew this was murder.”
Bonella also details how guards routinely accept hundreds of dollars in bribes for cell upgrades and allowing sexual partners into the prison.
One prisoner estimates “80 per cent” of the guards are corrupt, with many running drugs in and out of the lock-up. [The Sunday Telegraph]
If you don’t know who Schapelle Corby is, she is simply Australia’s most famous drug smuggler.
Well it was time for my wife and I to leave redwood country to head for our next destination which was Yosemite National Park in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. However, to reach the park we would first have to cross over the California Coastal Range to the east and take I-5 south towards Yosemite. As we drove south of Redwood National Park my wife and I had our first sighting of the large wildlife that lives in the area when we spotted this herd of elk grazing on the edge of the forest:
We pulled off the side of the road where a number of other cars were already parked in order to get a better look at the grazing elk:
It seemed the elk were pretty used to people staring and taking pictures of them because they didn’t mind staying out in the open despite all these people looking at them. Anyway after checking out the deer we then made our way east across the California Coastal Range:
The highway switchbacked up and over the rolling hills which provided some nice views of the surrounding country side:
The Coastal Range is no where near as rugged as the neighboring Sierra Nevada mountain range and just mostly just rolling hills, but it is in these rolling hills that the world’s largest trees thrive:
Eventually the road leading east over the range dropped in altitude and for many miles the highway drove through what appeared to have been a fairly recent massive forest fire:
Though this fire appeared to have been quite big, it was small compared to the couple of bushfire seasons I went through while living in Australia. Towards the end of the highway my wife and I stopped at this scenic lake to enjoy the view and eat a packed lunch we brought with us:
It wasn’t to much farther that the highway we were following eventually connected on to I-5, which we took south through Sacramento. The valley that I-5 travels along is mostly a large flat farming region with a few rivers running draining out from the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the distant horizon. We eventually reached Modesto, California that evening where we spent the night. The next morning we planned to drive to the nearby Yosemite National Park.
Next Posting: Yosemite National Park
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