I promised I'd update when we sailed Sultana Point, south of Edithburg. The sandbar looks like it goes for miles in a West-SW direction. The wind was almost straight South so we couldn't quite get upwind enough to make into the long reaches of sandy bottom. IF it had been SE we would have been reaching for very long distances! So we got restricted to sailing about 700m reaches back and forth about 50m offshore. We'd run into a seagrass area and gybe. Playing in the 2ft troughs, the tide was coming in. It was awesome to be in chest deep, warm water. 4.5m sails and really awesome except for having to clean off the seagrass every reach.

Anyway after an hour was doing that move where you head upwind as much as possible, bled off speed, and plop in to clean the fin and waterstart the other direction. Just as I'm steping off the board there is a freaking Bronzy 2m ahead of me, but I was already half into the water! He took off when the sail hit the water and I will admit I was scared thoroughly.

Once I got my brother on shore, we watched him for an hour, obviously chasing some fish (maybe salmon?) in the surf and coming into 2 ft deep water, thrashing about. Looking up the description it was a Bronzy and they are known for surf fishing.

As we were spooked and he was not leaving, after an hour we packed it up.

My friend who lives there says he's never seen a shark there in twenty years.

First time lucky I guess! Next stop Coffin Bay!

Kidding.