Jut saw on the news there has been a scary incident just down the road from my place. Im sure the boys at the shop will be checking it out before any SUP lessons.
Seems a couple of kayakers and a tinnie were bumped and menaced by a great white that was described as heaps bigger than the tinnie of 5 meters.
One kayaker was bumped intom the water while the shark circled. He was pulled into the tinnie and the others rafted up while the shark nosed around.
It looked bloody scary
So if you are out around Collaroy Basin or the Long Reef area be aware this beasty is around.
Bah - can we trust a report from some loser kayakers?? They probably got bumped by a wave.
My brother in law fishes for sharks from the mid north coast of NSW. Over Christmas I chatted with him about how the fishing was going. They regularly catch sharks over 3 meters long out at sea. Some are up to 5 meters long including Tigers and White Pointers. They have to release the White Pointers as they are protected. He showed me some shark teeth that were embedded in the boat's hull after hauling the sharks in, big sharp serated teeth.
Something to think about when going for your gybes and incentive to not fall off. I sailed at South West Rocks the next day on a great north easter. Sailing out past the point into the big ocean swells I made sure I didn't fall in on the gybes and thankfully I didn't 
Some poor bastard was taken by a 5m white just around the corner from my place in Perth today.
Full footage of wee beastie was included on the news.
No pussy wobbegong here, this was a big mother. Guys having a coldy on the beach at the boat ramp at Brownwater with the rescued kayaker offering a slab in thanks.
Just saying be careful, the community lost a water person in WA today. His family is suffering.
The place the poor bugger was taken today is where we see one every second or third year. A big black dropoff, very close to the shore, the deepest part of the bay.
The last sighting there was when a large white loomed up out of the dropoff and grabbed a young dolphin, then racked off never to be seen again, pretty much what happened today.
It's this time of the year, every year we see them in Perth, between now and late Feb. But they are always out there somewhere. They are an amazing creature, one of the last dinosaurs, no doubt, but If the government is serious about protecting these animals from being hunted to extinction they need to show that they are serious about protecting us from them.
All Great Whites need to be tagged and their location constantly monitored so that this can't happen again, ever.
Going by the footage, and luckily for the kayakers, Mr Noah was just having a sticky beak! All be it a very intimmidating sticky beak.
Hopefully hasnt gone into Narrabeen Lagoon by tomorrow afternoon....ha...ha....no seriously, i hope it cant get in there
why the red flags on the above comments? if you don't agree with their comment or opionion give a reason.
Yeah its true, the risk of being attacked by a shark while windsurfing must be small. Are there any reports of this happening? However talking over a few beers about sharks, how big they are, ie as long as the room you are in gets you thinking about them when out in the open ocean a couple of kms off shore.
PC in Windrider got hassled by a shark, if it can happen to him it can happen to anyone.
> Yeh I've never actually seen the entrance. Glad to know it cant get in
Actually, go have a look, the entrance is an interesting place.
Very strong currents at ebb tide, and almost 'hot' at this time of the year because of the shallow lagoon east of Pittwated Rd. No way sharkies could get in.
Do wear sandals though, full of sharp oysters, as me mongrels found out couple years ago.
Narrabeen = great to practice gybes and freeride moves on NEsters.
No way sharks can get in? Oh yer just like the golf course here that had sizeable bullsharks in its water hazard, they enter areas like that as juveniles then can never get out.
Windsurfers being killed by sharks is quite rare- that guy in SA, the unknown cause of death guy in WA and a guy in Gran Canaria or somewhere all happened similar time. Sometime in late 90's one of the magazines published no windsurfer had ever been killed by sharks.
i remember some french guy had a leg taken off at Kanaha on Maui when i was there once. He was right out back 'resting' with his legs over the board. The lifeguard reckons he had never even seen a shark in 15 years of patrolling the beach.
Dont think i dropped a gybe on that holiday
