A Happy New Year to all and we hope that this year will be a good one for everyone.
The Egret and his partner were fishing and as the one caught a fish, a gull flew in trying to rob him.
Today, I will show you some sea life and at the end of the post a video about the end of a giant's life.
The rocky parts of the beach are the best places to go during the holidays, as the popular parts are packed with crowds. Very few people come to the rocky parts and the birds know that, so there are many birds here.
I will share a post with you that has both good and sad content and in my mind it is just the way of life.
The plundering seagulls were thwarted by the egret birds and sadly there is also an end to life.
Without giving too much of the story away, come and look.
Hahaha, the egret at the left was laughing as he swallowed the fish, then he shouted at the gulls; hey you lazy buggers, go and catch your own fish.
The one egret decided that he had enough of the marauding gulls, and he was on his way.
An aspirant Tern was tracking him to see if he would land close by.
But there was more to see.
The partner was gone, but the other egret also caught a fish.
The same thing happened, but the gull couldn't score as the egret swallowed the fish.
A tern was hovering high overhead to see if there were maybe some scraps floating around.
And so the gull started harassing the egret.
Mercilessly, the gull swooped around the egret and his plan was to chase the egret away as it was eating all of the fish.
Finally, this egret had also had enough of the gull's harassment, and he lifted off.
Oh! And of course, the gull watched the egret go.
And now for the sad part.
I have to admit that I am not a great fan of festivals or new year resolutions, as I have lived long enough to know the differences.
The one thing that I can tell you for certain, is that if we do not take urgent action to restore the damages to nature and the soiling of the ocean, then we will soon not have many new years left.
Note that this is not a doom prophecy as many feel the way that I do and the evidence are there for all to see.
I think that this is a male, Spotted Gulley Shark and its other name is a Sharptooth Houndshark, that washed up on the beach and I could see no cuts, or bruises on his body. These sharks are slow growing and can live up to 21 years
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Normally if the sharks are bashed up against the razor-sharp underwater rocks, they are full of cuts and bruises, but nothing on this big boy.
And thus far, we have only seen dead sharks that were much smaller than this one.
Some kids arrived and they desperately tried to return the shark to the water, but he was long gone.
Beware! Do not watch this video if you are faint hearted.
In November we had a very large dead whale that washed up on the beach. Never a great sight to see when one of these mammoth creatures are washed up on a beach.
We couldn't go to see the whale as we were busy with charity work.
But I don't think that we would have gone in any case, as I don't like to see wonderful creatures ending their days like this. And so I found this video on YouTube to show you the incident. As you can see in the video, the scene was crowded with spectators and the whale removal teams with their heavy machinery completed the removal task very well.
Thankfully it is not every day that this happens, and we saw news of whales also washing up on other parts of our coastlines. Some still alive and one even had a small calf.
Makes one worry about the strange weather effects on our oceans.
This is life with both of its ups and downs on show and then we think that we have problems. Our problems are small, as the real problems are still to come.
And That's All Friends.
Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX70 Bridge camera.
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