OT Shark & Croc attacks.

Just feeling the need to vent my opinion, and it is only MY opinion, about the above topic.

I can't understand all the "now we've got an excuse to kill them" crap that's going around at the moment. Unfortunately a man lost his life in the NT while snorkling off the coast and a couple have lost their lives surfing on our south coast while a couple have had VERY near misses with sharks, also on our south coast... I have every synpathy for the friends and families of the victims but I disagree with the level of malice toward the animals in question.

How does a persons actions in assessing the danger, continuing to partake and being attacked translate to a need to cull. IMO, the sharks and crocs have a far better reason for being there than we do. These areas are their homes, the places they have inhabited for far longer than humans have been here. They are not domesticated animals and as such cannot partake in behavioural modification to cater for us.

The risks are widely known so I say, "If you want to watch the sun come up tomorrow, use a bit of common sense and stay out of the waters which are known habitat"

Rant over

Blue