rayoli said...
P.S Shark sighting, is that mainly a WA thing,,,or wave surfing any ocean beach break.
Bull sharks Syd / Bris bays .. unsighted !!!
NQ..ray's,stingers,crocadiles and sharks, tigers locally, turtle is their favourite dinner i've been led to belive..
Just something to throw into the next survey,,,why take the risk.............
Sorry mate, I have not had the time to map these out......but I should really share these so that you know what people have said!! Or maybe you can try to summarise them for us??!!
in front of me eating a turtle..... 0.32% 1
Leighton 0.32% 1
Yullingup WA 0.32% 1
Sydney Heads 0.32% 1
safety bay. near penguin island 0.32% 1
margies 0.32% 1
Hervey Bay 0.32% 1
Lancelin, Gnaraloo, Exmouth, Esperance 0.32% 1
Inverloch- We are regularly visited by men in grey suits- not for from Phillip island seal colony in Vic. 0.32% 1
Trial Bay South West Rocks 0.32% 1
Redcliffe /Brisbane 10 ft tiger 0.32% 1
Tathra 0.32% 1
Get to see small reef sharks (3-4ft) quite frequently in Keppel Bay although have never encountered one that would make me poo my pants 0.32% 1
The Verge Bellambi and Shoalhaven Heads 0.32% 1
Caloundra Stockton Leighton Exmouth 0.32% 1
Off Valentine in Lake Macquarie - 2m bull shark.. just cruised past . I turned around and went to the shore until it left the area and then hoped like hell it didn't come back! 0.32% 1
Scales Bay South Australia 0.32% 1
The Cliff, Newcastle 0.32% 1
Nelson bay 0.32% 1
Seen about 3 Small Great Whites between Lancelin and Wedge. 0.32% 1
trigg 0.32% 1
Exmouth WA 0.32% 1
ocean 0.32% 1
In the surf zone, both windsurfing and paddle boarding. Paddle boarding i saw a great white with a dorsal fin the size of a four wheel drive tyre cruising on the surface. Most whilst windsurfing have been flashes and most likely white tipped reef sharks 0.32% 1
Wellington Point (Qld) 0.32% 1
Shark Bay Coral Bay 0.32% 1
In the water 0.32% 1
Sydney 0.32% 1
sailing @ caloundra bar 2 bull sharks in break 0.32% 1
Cabarita beach and Sandgate 0.32% 1
sydney 0.32% 1
Lake Macquarie ( pullbah Island) , wanda beach 0.32% 1
trigg tiger shark 0.32% 1
Mullaloo/ Pinneroo point Perth 0.32% 1
lake macquarie and port stevens 0.32% 1
St George's beach WA 0.32% 1
Long Reef 0.32% 1
SA. 0.32% 1
lancelin,greenhead,north west 0.32% 1
saftey bay 0.32% 1
Long Reef, Collaroy, Maui 0.32% 1
Birubi Beach 0.32% 1
Alva Beach, QLD 0.32% 1
Both just off narrow neck on the Gold Coast and off Scarborough Beach in Perth 0.32% 1
Boat Harbour Wanda Beach 0.32% 1
Ningaloo 0.32% 1
Dongara (last year) and Woodmans Point (5 yrs ago) 0.32% 1
loaders creek 0.32% 1
Cronulla 0.32% 1
open ocean off WA 0.32% 1
Shark Bay 0.32% 1
Whitsundays QLD, Egypt, Mandurah Estuary 0.32% 1
North Entrance 0.32% 1
Cocos Islands and Western Australia 0.32% 1
Ambushed by a bull shark mandurah estuary (kiters beach near chanel)) went for my mate then me. Seen +3 others in estuary, 2 in ocean at Avalon (WA) 0.32% 1
Harmless Port Jackson shark kiting in shallow water above sea grass beds 0.32% 1
Aspendale (Port Philip) 0.32% 1
Cotten tree, kawana, mudjimba, north shore & port duglas. All up i,ve had 12 very very close enconters and 1 hit my board 0.32% 1
north Queensland just reef sharks. 0.32% 1
Victoria, Hawaii & NSW 0.32% 1
hawaii, small reef shark. 0.32% 1
City Beach - Gnaraloo - WA 0.32% 1
Cotton Tree River Mouth, QLD Kingscliff, NSW 0.32% 1
NW WA 0.32% 1
Darwin, Casuarina Beach and Lee Point 0.32% 1
Wellington Point near Brisbane 0.32% 1
Off trigg wa and off dee why nsw. 0.32% 1
Darook park in 2 feet of water (12 foot tiger), another off boat harbour, another off windang 0.32% 1
South West Rocks Australia 0.32% 1
Sailed passed a 3m shark at Scarborough a couple of months ago 0.32% 1
Boat Harbour cronulla Kurnell 0.32% 1
South west rocks Nsw 0.32% 1
~200 m off Bulli beach 0.32% 1
murray mouth 0.32% 1
Newcastle offshore, came up in front and almost went over it 0.32% 1
Parkdale, Melbourne 0.32% 1
Lots of times at Cronulla 0.32% 1
Cactus 0.32% 1
Coronation Beach. Not very big, looked like some kind of reef shark. 0.32% 1
Wa penguin island. Sadly there was an attack two days later. 0.32% 1
Ocean Beach, Umina NSW 0.32% 1
Jervis bay 0.32% 1
Exmouth 0.64% 2
GC QLD PNG SSC QLD 0.32% 1
Denmark Ocean Beach, WA 0.32% 1
Florida, USA 0.32% 1
small reef shark nibbled my knee off a reef - albany wa narrowly missed (<1m) coliding with shark off leeman wa 0.32% 1
maui+wollongong 0.32% 1
Byron bay 0.32% 1
Trinity Beach Green Island 0.32% 1
Behind trawler of redcliffes, Qld 0.32% 1
Esperance x2, Lancelin x1 0.32% 1
mooloolaba 0.32% 1
In 0.5m water.....2.5m Bronze whaler following the smell of a dead shark carcass on the beach 0.32% 1
very large great white off mullaloo beach west oz 0.32% 1
Off local beach SW WA, 4.5 metre whitepointer. Also, Rottnest, FNQ, Exmouth, Darwin, Gove, Sharkbay (go figure). 0.32% 1
Middle Rock NSW 0.32% 1
Narrabeen 0.32% 1
Point Halloran, Mouth of Eprapah Creek. I didn't see it I fell on it 0.32% 1
woodmans point WA 0.32% 1
off Bribie, Miami, Wello Manly, They are out there. Will do survey twice as different personas as I windsurf and kite. 0.32% 1
Inverloch , Sandy point , Port Philip bay Bass Straight 0.32% 1
During finding Nemo there were a few around 0.32% 1
Lord Howe island 0.32% 1
Wrapped in batter. 0.32% 1
Botany bay 0.32% 1
baja, mexico 0.32% 1
south africa 0.32% 1
Darwin 0.32% 1
Outer reef, and at the beach break 0.32% 1
South West Rocks 0.32% 1
lake macquarie 0.64% 2
safety bay 0.32% 1
ningaloo reef. regular sightings, no white pointers yet. I think? 0.32% 1
Just want to say a Big Thank You for all those who have participated. Not only has this been a very interesting social exercise, and as I am about to present, the data themselves have also shown some very interesting insights about the profile of who we are as a group. 
As this is just a simple survey, there will always be "gaps" and "incompleteness" about what the data shows, so we will just need to accept that this is what it is. What it shows, however, is a "flavour" about who we are as a community on this Seabreeze Forum. 
Overall, there were 314 responses!! Generally the data quality was high. There were some minor anomalies with the responses to one of the questions below (you will see what I mean later......), but these affected only a minority of responses. And for some reason, only the Boys seem to have got it wrong. I have also noticed that there were some respondents who had responded more than once, with one particular individual responded 6 times. But I am only going to assume that he is probably responding on behalf of other people that he knows ought to have responded but who couldn't (so thank you), and that there might be other respondents who "Do Both" windsurfing and kitesurfing (so they entered twice to give two points of view). Overall these accounted to a small number. One spooky thing I noticed was that there were EXACTLY 157 responses each from the Kitesurfers and Windsurfers!!! What are the chances of that?? 
Unfortunately, the only way I can show you the complete story is by putting these into very boring looking tables - but I think they should be fairly self explanatory and I think tells a more compelling story. I will let you do the % yourself. I have left the data as raw numbers only so you get a real sense of the number of you out there.
Anyway....here they are. Enjoy your weekend! 
