Sharky Spots

[adam.s]

I was out by myself last sesh and saw a seal 20m away then few minutes later, i saw a fin about 10m away from me, paddled into the shallow part of the reef then saw a fin coming towards, i shat myself then it jumped out of the water and it was a dolphin, couldn't me more glad.

I love paddling to the inside, to the shallowest bit, especially when this part has a major growth of barnacles, then seeing a set coming out the back and just going " f@k ..."

[captain6230]

saw a friggin massive fin yesterday, at an isolated beach with just me and 2 mates out and no one else in sight, the thing was a good metre tall and popped up about 100m away into the bay behind a peak we were surfing about half an hour earlier
we got too the shore and saw a whale breach so we decided we were overreacting......then as we climbed up the steps we realised there was a friggin submarine shark cruising behind the whale

cracked a few tinnies in appreciation of having all my limbs last night

[angryassdrummer]

:shock: indeed.
a family friend that helped out with the moreton island oil spill clean up said he'll never go surfing there again without a spotter up on the cliffs he said he saw that many sharks flying over in the chopper
we(our family) have been camping there for years and ive been out there by myself since i was 10

go 4x4ing./camping there myself and i would never go in the water there. heard too many stories from fisherman ..would be to freaking to enjoy the surf anyway

[captain_awesome]

I've heard stories (key word, not sure how accurate) of people surfing there and litterally looking under the water and to the sea bed and seeing heaps of sharks just swimming right under where they was surfing

[angryassdrummer]

in byron bay where i grew up, my brother and friends were surfing the wreck when 2 sharks came and chased them..where they had to hop into the wreck itself...the sharks circled for many minutes while they $hat their shorts lol eventually they got bored and swam off. was doing surfing for sport in high school in 94 . on the bus on the way to the beach we got told it was cancelled as a guy was eaten by a shark a few hundred meters out from where we were headed.
also when i was doing marine studies and was talking with the guys at seaworld, they said ifpeople knew how many man killers were just off shore all along the gold coast no one would go in. massive amount of tiger sharks all along the qld coast esp gold coast.

[Goliath]

On sunday it made the 5th time ive seen fins out at island, luckily they've off al been dolphins. The best bit is when they charge for waves :]

[GoldCoastbooger]

AngryAssDrummer, Did u go to Benowa High? Because i know they did and still do Surfing as a school sport and were the founders of Marine Biology??

[danarchist]

Sharks and Byron have a long history...old timer stories from last century of Shark packs congregating at the end slush pipe that used to feed all the leftovers from the whale processing factory round 3pm every arvo that used to run out roughly where the wreck is now (so I've been told)...perhaps it's collective memory.... First guys that came up to the goldy et al tell stories of not being able to get in the water some days due to the high no. sightings.

[angryassdrummer]

yeah we learnt about the shark history in byron at school. they were notorious while the whaling was functioning. Broken Head which is my local beach was popular with great whites, i think whalers are the most common sighted now. there was another incident at Angels Beach near ballina... my brother was surfing there with a mate and his dad, when the dad on his mal got knocked skywards several feet in the air! a shark, they think a bronze whaler came up and smashed his board from below sending him in the air..natural they got the hell out asap

[kc_bodyboard]

dad caught a 50cm bronze whaler in the noosa rivermouth the other week, if there's small ones there there's bound to be some biggens.