a "4.5m white pointer …[that’s over 13’ long ]
"nudged a surf lifesaving rescue boat off Cottesloe beach this morning , only metres from where Perth business man Ken Crew was fatally attacked five years ago "…
I was surfing Scarborough [12kms up the coast] at that time this morning …same as I was five years ago, when Ken was attacked…
ben
p.s. - by the way , it was an all girl crew in the surf boat , apparently …
Im in the water Sunday, water close to 20C so the wetsuit is off. It’s small and there’s noone else in the water.
I start feeling uneasy in the water… A bit sharky. So I paddle down to the next break and there I feel even MORE uneasy. I paddle over a pitch black patch of water (murky water over kelp) and feel fully freaked out. So I get out and went home.
The next day I go back and get told the shark siren went off and a chopper chased off a big bloke in a gray suit shortly afterwards - right at that second break! Something to be said for instinct! I;m still back in the water the next day 
Much mellower feeling.
Made me rather glad I was on my 9’6"… With no limbs in the water for a nano-second longer than absolutely necessary 
Hopefully Mr Teeth thought it was an unusually rounded peice of tree… Seems to have worked anyhow
Yesterday I read this in “The Advertiser” (page 15, 15 Nov 2005):
Shark alert
WATER police joined in the search yesterday for a shark in the Gulf St Vincent after a third sighting in three days.
Police and the Sea Rescue Squadron responded at about 4pm after a fisherman reported a 4.5m-long white pointer shark circling 1km off Hallett Conve. The search was called off after an hour.
Yeah great!
-doug
yeah stories like that are really scary. i was out a few years back during the spring in cocoa beach. waves where pretty decent and there where only a few people out in the water. i had seen some dolphins swiming around and thats when these kooks with duct taped up beaters yell at me from across the line up that theres sharks in the water. i calmy paddle over and point out the dolphin swimming past.
then 10 minutes later they scream at me again and they get out of the water. continuly screaming at me to get out. i ignore them and yell its dolphins you idiots. by this sime they have scared everyone out of the water except me. some time later a few other guys paddle out. and the kooks on the beach yell theres a shark out there.
so finaly i decide to come in as they where really freaking out all the people on the beach. i tell them once again its a dolphin and they need to stop freaking out the other people on the beach.
i go back into the water 100% sure that its just a dolphin and they start yelling at me again. as soon as i turn around to tell them where to go and how fast to get there. i see a pretty good size dorsal fin making a beeline right for me. lucky for me i was on a 9’6 as well and jusy layed up on the thing. the shark just swam past, but it scared the piss out of me.
worst part was i had to apolgize to those kids.
it’s the ocean…there’s sharks in it…they live there.
saw 2 sharks inside the lineup at Reef Road a couple months back. we left them alone…they left us alone.
foolproof test if you ever wanna know if there’s sharks at your beach…taste the water…if it’s salty, there’s sharks in it.
"foolproof test if you ever wanna know if there’s sharks at your beach…taste the water…if it’s salty, there’s sharks in it. "
yep .
“It’s the sharks sweating that makes the water salty.”
[At least , that’s what this old guy at the beach with glazed eyes and slurred speech told me . So, it MUST be true , eh ?]
i share your thinking as well soulstice. we as humans are going into their house to play, some times uninvited and we pay for it. i know that if a shark came into my house i would retaliate.
i just try not to think about it when i am in the water