Swarming Great Whites force mass closure of Australian beaches along one thousand km stretch of coast, including sights of recent attacks, Snapper Rocks, Kingscliff and Cabarita…

A bumper season… 

Seventeen beaches along a thousand-click stretch of coast from Burleigh Heads in Queensland to Narrabeen in Sydney’s north were shuttered over the weekend due to “a huge number of shark sightings.”

Sharks forced North Burleigh, Snapper Rocks, where Nick Slater was killed by a Great White one month ago, Fingal Head, Hawks Nest, Port Stephens, Kingscliff, Brunswick, Newcastle Beach, Coogee, Evans Head, Broulee, Sharps Beach and Narrabeen to close; Pacific Palms and Lennox Head were closed twice.

A dead whale washed up on the Tweed Coast brought in the obligatory swarms of feeding Great Whites, forcing Salt, where Rob Pedretti was killed by a “fifteen foot Great White” four months ago, Casuarina, Cabarita, where Christian Bungate was attacked by a White “as big as it gets” on his foil board, Hastings, North Pottsville and South Pottsville to close.

Three weeks ago, a dead fifty-ton Sperm whale sparked a feeding frenzy at Ballina, surfers warned to stay away along a fifty click stretch from South Wall to Evans Head.

The sight, then, was as grim as it was photogenic.

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