Perth to Adelaide trip - take a surfboard?

yep, i meant cheers,
i know there is a spell check, but it would be good if we had an edit button.
baz

Gidday

Camped at cactus beach way back in the 90s, was a great spot even if like me you don't surf or fish.

Cheers.

Just stay away from the seal colonies which is their main hangout and enjoy your surfing trip...


Cheers

The statistics are flawed...

Thing is, in Australia if there is no witness then it never happened !

Without quoting actual figures (cos I am too lazy to look them up). About 30,000 people are reported missing each year in Australia. About 2,500 are never seen or heard from again.

Any given lottery will be won less than 52 times...cos it is not won every week!

Many people use the old adage "more chance of being hit by a bus"... Sure, accidents happen. About 1,000 people are killed on the roads each year...but 2,500 just vanish. The bus driver is not looking at you thinking "dinner". The bus does not turn and twist with a deliberate intent of killing you and eating you.

As some one above said, these waters are the great whites back yard. The southern coast of Australia has the largest (or at least one of the largest) populations of great white sharks anywhere in the world....It's like saying you have more chance of being attacked by a dog when walking down the street. Yep sure...But jump the fence into a back yard with 2 rottweilers in there and guess what is going to happen...

I have been saying for years...there is only one difference between a person swimming in the sea and live bait...the bait has a hook in it !

hehe...I would take a fishing rod...and a very big landing net :)

I've been paddling the Australian and Papua New Guinea Coastlines for over 35 years and Sydney Harbour and Parramatta River for the last 20 on my surf ski, I’ve seen lots of sharks swim under me, around me, check me out, look me up and down, so far so good – perhaps it is just a matter of time, but I work on the basis if I wake up each day that’s a good starting point, anything else that happens is incidental…

But here is the thing, if you've ever been around Clarence Street in Sydney at peak hour in the afternoon with all the buses bearing down on the Harbour Bridge, believe me, you'd take your chances with a great white in the ocean - the look on those drivers' eyes is truly menacing

And talking about hooks, I just spotted one so I'll just leave it to James to decide, and I'm betting he'll be around to recount the experience!

Come to think of it, I’ll just have a little nibble on the bait given I’m far too (old) and cunning to get hooked – are you saying that the great whites have a catch and release program, you know, catch 30,000, eat 2,500, release the rest?

;)

Cheers, Baz – The Landy

No mate, no hook...

I spent several years driving trucks in and around Sydney. So yes, I know what you mean...

But the waters we are talking about are the oceans Clarence Street of great whites...and they are not just trying to get somewhere...the only thing they care about is eating and making baby great whites!

One of my neighbours lost a relative to a shark...a bull shark. I think she said it was her great uncle or her husbands great uncle. He took his horse for a swim. No witnesses, but they found remains of the horse and confirmed that the horse at least had been killed by a bull shark. No remains of the rider were ever found...Location, Georges Hall (outer west Sydney).

Musta been a hungry shark and not too many swimmers splashing about at the Bay beaches that day, Herbal :-) Georges Hall is about 20km up the river (Georges R, funnily enough :-)) from its mouth in Botany Bay.

Used to work at Bankstown Airport in the 70's to the mid 90's. There were occasional reports of sharks in the river, but I don't recall an attack while I was there. There's a waterski club just downstream from Georges Hall.

Over the years we had a couple of emergency "landings" by light aircraft in the river, too. All persons recovered wet and shaken with all limbs attached :-)

Cheers

That is right...20km or so inland. But that is nothing for a bull shark ! They have been noted in waters 100's of km inland...ANY water directly linked to the sea, can and will hold bull sharks. They are quite happy in salt or fresh water ;)

Yes, Bankstown AP is quite near Georges Hall.

When I was a kid, we lived at East Hills, just a bit south of Georges Hall. As a kid I often saw very large "fish" in the river. I used to get a smack across the ear for telling fibs. That was in the 70's...That is what started the conversation with my neighbour...The horse shark attack with rider listed as "missing" happened in the 50's.

Statistics prove that the average Australian has one breast and one testicle.

Hey James

Live the Dream mate, be a Dream Catcher...

Go for it…just remember, those that don't think it can be done, or shouldn't be done, shouldn't bother the person doing it…!

shark article

Some advice

That worked well (:=0)

www.coastalwatch.com/news/article.aspx?articleld=9660