The mystical communion between Great Whites and surfers continues!
A couple of mornings ago, a teen surfer was hit by a Great White at Avoca Beach, the very same stretch of sand where former world number seven Ace Buchan is trying to offload his beloved beach house for three-mill plus.
Anyway, the kid, no name or age given, was bitten on the hand, went home and called the ambos who took him to the local hozzy where he was discharged shortly after.
The sharks was quickly identified by as a Great White.
“NSW DPI shark biologists have assessed photographs of the teenager’s injuries and surfboard and have determined the bite indentations are indicative of a white shark,” a spokesperson for The NSW Department of Primary Industries said.
As you’d expect, Avoca Beach and surrounds were automatically shuttered as drones flew overhead, looking for the black stain of a Great White swaying feverishly in its waters.
The attack, real minor, although I ain’t in a rush to have a Great White attached to the end of my arm, came one day before the NSW government decided, against a groundswell of opinion, to redeploy shark nets across 51 beaches from Newcastle to Wollongong.
A lot of people ain’t into nets ‘cause they’re a dumb, blunt instrument, killing Whites, sure, but also mowing through plenty of happy mammals, turtles, dolphins and so on.
In 2021-22, 376 marine animals got ‘emselves tangled in the nets, most of ‘em what they call “non-target” creatures like rays and turtles, even a humpback whale.
Roughly, a third of ‘em survived the experience.
The Department of Primary Industries reported 28 Whites, 12 Bulls and 11 Tigers were put out of commission by the nets.
3 million to live in shark ally???
Maybe if I was into fishing
Shuttered. You are beginning to sound like Chas mate.
https://youtu.be/We_DLCYDaYw
Far out. Even old mate Italo had a close call there in his last Instatok post. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
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Probably wont have a postitve affect on the sale of Ace’s ($3+m plain(ugly) brick cube with a peep of a view, and very close neighbours) house up the hill…
…from the next door neighbor with designs on expanding his Heifer and Hop empire by razing a perfectly air b-n-b-able property next lot over ….how many grazing lands till your empire is satisfied?!?!? And do you need a ranch hand? I’m hire-able
Lots and lots of homes in that price range for sale in my area. Sitting. And will continue to sit. Slowly dropping the price as interest rates continue to go up. Da party’s over.
“the black stain of a Great White swaying feverishly in its waters” – Derek you haven’t waxed poetic like this for a long time!
yeah I read the same thing but being US based, I had to sorta tip my cap but wag my finger cuz in today’s climes, coming from a certain angle, such a phrase could be associative “dog whistling.” Lots of cats call the planned diminishment of the CA prison population, and subsequent DA decisions, as a “black out.” The same cats who espouse land of the free home of the brave law and order and still accept that we, in CA alone, have a larger prison population than the rest of the US combined. Which has an “officially stated” prison population larger than the rest of the world combined. Do the math. We are either overly populated by ne’er do wells, or there’s some overly evident systemic issues. The Chumash might refer to current lawlessness as a white out, in the overall scheme. So as long as our dearly beloved DR was talking inter racial porn instead of racially based stereotypes, I’m cool.
Being AUD based MC, I suspect unintentional!
For real! And knowing DR’s proclivity for kink, I had a strong premonition he has been tuned fairly in to some interracial pornography and thus innocent of associating a great white attack with an assault and battery by a black dude. Props to Brutus.
Or, potentially even a chance of it having absolutely nothing at all to do with race, and maybe a little about the fact that the silhouette of a shark when seen from above is black
Imagine having a mind like that, what a drag man.