Ok, after getting confident enough and finding the right life/impact vest, I decided to push the limits and go for 1 maybe 1.5 km off shore.
The amount of rubbish I saw in the water, blew my mind.
In a couple of days of kiting, I found the following:
-a toy truck made of plastic (whatever was left of it)
-a couple of plastic containers
-plastic bags
-a hat
Is this normal? What else did you see/find? Do you normally pick them up and toss them in the bin?
I've fished way offshore from rotto (200-400m depth) and always encounter heaps of rubbish (just usual stuff like cray floats and general rubbish). Its good news if its all together as the mahi's arent too far away :)
2 summers ago i was off two rocks and almost out of sight of land and saw this blob floating. Motored on over and it's a bloke chasing big sambos on his yak.. made sure he was all good and offered to take him in but he was happy enough. Crazy!
... on holidays in WA, kiting Hells Gates, amongst the surf and coming down a wave spotted a medium sized beach ball so I wizzed past and scooped it up, took it back to the beach. I figured some poor kid lost it when winds were off shore that morning and now its coming back.
Friend of mine found a big 1 meter long fish just outside the surf zone in Vientnam. He picked it up, navigated his way back through the surf to the beach with the thing drapped over his arms where he offered it to a local on the beach. Little did he know it would start a riot, a bunch of locals ran down and argued who would take it home.
Stuff I found over the years while kiting: shoe, thong, eski (too big to bring back to beach), dead turtle, shark, weather ballon and sunglasses.
Stuff I lost over the years while kiting: favourite watch, my favourite board, favourite sunnies and my dignity on occassion when I chicken out of trying a new trick 
cheers for now,
Robbie 
I think there is a lot of plastic rubbish in the ocean.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
"Estimates of size range from 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) to more than 15,000,000 square kilometres (5,800,000 sq mi) (0.41% to 8.1% of the size of the Pacific Ocean)"
I never see any rubbish out off Perth, only flying fish which tend to scare the crap out of me because i'm not really concentrating and they come out of nowhere. The further out you go the more of them you see!
i cruised up to what i thought was a gumboot. The gumboot turned round and looked at me and swam away.
it was a baby seal. quite cool encounter.
@ underoath
but at least the rubbish was removed from the beach.
Read somewhere there are an estimated 3000 shipping containers floating around out there.
You would have to hope they sink eventually.
Found a Ute Tub liner once, scared the **** out of me. I thought it was a shark.
Was going to try and use it as a slider but it got into the surf and flipped over :(
but at least the rubbish was removed from the beach. 
This topic seems to resurface every year..
A couple of years back I came across what I thought was a child's dead body floating face down. The wind was light so it was quite difficult to get back upwind to where I first sighted it just catching glimpses every now and then. My heat was in my mouth as I contemplated how I was going to get a body of a child back to shore.
Eventually After about 20 minutes I managed to get close enough to establish it was not human but appeared to be a lump of closed cell foam similar to that found in couches etc. the color looked identical to what flesh looks like that has been in liquid for some time. I can still remember the relief I felt.
Pinneroo today! Found an ice cream container floating around. Free hat!!!!!
WIN.
Observations of WA; beaches are litter strewn, sand dunes are littered with beer bottles and remnants of BBQ's, many roads verges contain rubbish. So I am not surprised the sea is also full of crap. Its not endemic to Australia i see this everywhere. Sadly a few bottom feeding scum think its ok to pollute their own country.
Kiting at Stokko you may as well be kiting the mounds of rubbish at the tip.... But luckily sharks eat everything...those little(big) buggers are like the garbage collectors of the sea.
