Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by Beanpole » Sun Feb 20, 2022 8:36 am

I look at it as a bit of a novelty when it comes up in my Facebook Feed. Not much bearing on going surfing.
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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by Drailed » Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:07 pm

That 3m shark in Avalon yesterday was scaring a lot of surfers, chased a few people out including up at Whaley. LA helicopter and loads of lifeguards on jet skis out looking for it etc.
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Post by steve shearer » Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:51 pm

you OK Loof.

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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by Drailed » Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:54 pm

I took my son down to Newport Steve… we got a few down there.
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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by Thud » Sun Feb 20, 2022 5:02 pm

Get the odd shark around here. Obviously nothing like up the North Coast, of course. That’s serious business.

Seems a shark might hang around for a few weeks and bail. There were a couple of seals in the line up for a while. They left, the shark left.

There was a big Tiger shark hanging around close to shore at Copa last year as well.

No one seems to get hysterical about it. Additionally, there’s no netting etc so the local peeps seem to just go with the flow.
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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by Thud » Sun Feb 20, 2022 5:03 pm

Drailed wrote:
Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:07 pm
That 3m shark in Avalon yesterday was scaring a lot of surfers, chased a few people out including up at Whaley. LA helicopter and loads of lifeguards on jet skis out looking for it etc.
“Whaley”

:lol:
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Post by Yuke Hunt » Sun Feb 20, 2022 6:29 pm

Thud wrote:
Sun Feb 20, 2022 5:03 pm
Drailed wrote:
Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:07 pm
That 3m shark in Avalon yesterday was scaring a lot of surfers, chased a few people out including up at Whaley. LA helicopter and loads of lifeguards on jet skis out looking for it etc.
“Whaley”

:lol:
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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by The Mighty Sunbird » Sun Feb 20, 2022 6:35 pm

Drum lines put in at little bay today
Erase.

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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by Thud » Sun Feb 20, 2022 6:50 pm

Bit fucking late
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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by Kunji » Mon Feb 21, 2022 9:03 am

The Mighty Sunbird wrote:
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Drum lines put in at little bay today
Stupid
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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by Beanpole » Mon Feb 21, 2022 9:14 am

People still swim in the actual Little Bay. For those not familiar it’s a very little bay with a relatively small gap between the two little headlands. Made famous by Christo wrapping the headland in the 60s. Not many beaches in that vicinity and the population in the area has expanded dramatically over the last ten years. About the only thing out there used to be the Tropical Diseases Quarantine Centre.
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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by Thud » Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:31 am

I went there to visit someone who had lost their spleen as a result of some disease. About 1985. True story.
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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by Beanpole » Mon Feb 21, 2022 12:15 pm

Always nice when you get home from a surf and find out from Dorsal there was a shark there.
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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by channels » Mon Feb 21, 2022 12:37 pm

Beanpole wrote:
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Always nice when you get home from a surf and find out from Dorsal there was a shark there.
Well clearly Dorsal is the problem.

I didn't know of any shark sightings before Dorsal.

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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by Beanpole » Mon Feb 21, 2022 12:48 pm

Well, yeah. I wouldn’t know otherwise……unless I saw it of course.
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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by Yuke Hunt » Mon Feb 21, 2022 1:06 pm

Imagine if the sharks had an app called Morsel ... Bondi would be like an all you could eat multicultural buffet.

Would you like beans with that ?
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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by Beanpole » Mon Feb 21, 2022 1:23 pm

Plenty of delectable morsels swimming out near the shark bouys without worrying about a gnarly old specimen like me.
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Re: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?

Post by foamy » Fri Feb 25, 2022 11:14 am

It’s a week old, but Nick wrote a good piece on the Little Bay fatality and the lack of govt shark attack prevention that preceded it.

https://www.surfline.com/surf-news/the- ... son/145345

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