anyone see the two large bronze whalers on wednesday? I was packing up and Johnny Redmond said they made a beeline for him and he had to bear away to avoid them Must have been sizeable as he was pretty shaken up
He doesn't spook easily so I would not doubt they were there, but I kept sailing because I figure they are always there, and you don't waste good breeze...
If it was sketchy and dying I might have not thought the same
There has been a lot of media reports about the amount of sharks around at the moment especially in Lake Macquarie. I have seen a lot in the past year and had a Bull buzz me last year. After seeing the result of the attack on Richard Ellis at Nambucca several years ago, it does worry me that it's only a matter of time before we see something similar or worse up this way. I won't let my kids swim in the lake anymore after seeing one 50 meters from shore.
I can beat that Monday on the long weekend at Hawks Nest seen a lot of sharks over the years diving and fishing out in the ocean even had a maco alongside of my boat a few ks off seal rocks but this was one of the nasty protected ones and he was bigger than me . First time i have ever gone to shore and stay there for the rest of the day
The NSW North Coast is pretty sharky place, but I've spent 25 years floating on surfboards between the Central Coast and Byron Bay and I've only ever seen 6. I'm not counting the friendly ones like hammerheads, just evil whalers and one white. Strangly I've been sailboarding for 10 months and seen 3. All whalers about 2.5 meters, and in only 5 feet of water, 30 meters from kids swimming. My view, if sharks considered people part of their diet there would be shark attacks every day of the week. It's the thought of something eating us that freaks us out.
BarryFawkes said... a few hundred meters inside the sand bank near the entrance hawks nest side of the middle around the area of the last two summers shark attacks
