shark attack@Balian,Bali this morning.

Plenty of Noah's,that should read....dontcha love auto correct

End of the Wet season still Mick - so that river will be filthy.

It's a wonder anything can live in that water

The Bulls were pretty thick there six weeks ago after we had some heavy rain. First morning after the rain the water was like choc-milk and icy, we had a solid one cruise around us for a look just before sunrise with another couple of instances of feeling water movement that shouldn't have been there. Vis was less than a foot.
Next morning was patches of iced choc milk shot through with warm patches, schools of mullet everywhere and lots of very active Bulls. Saw four or five full on breaches with Noah's fully airborne and bait flying everywhere and lots of swirls and bait getting smashed. Vis was still less than a foot, it's no wonder people get hit there.

Good waves but.

Murky water pfffft , more to the point of a river mouth being a food chain. That's like saying don't surf overcast days on a seal Island.

They're not attacks like we get Rod, just accidental really. If you saw the water you'd dig it, vis of a foot or less and big schools of bait. It's bound to happen. There's a few spots throughout the lineup where they seem to be most active and you make a conscious effort not to paddle through there, if you do you do it calmly, without making a commotion. I'm actually amazed that there's not more incidents the way kooks flounder around like an epileptic in a bathtub in the rip at the end of the left, that section there is Bull shark ambush heaven.

They really are just exploratory bites not repeated, sustained attacks where the victim is consumed, like we cop. I actually felt safer out there with Bulls smashing bait schools and going full ICBM than I do surfing Wedge or down south. Or Rotto. Or Lano.
It's kinda like being in the water at Exy, you know they're there, you can see them feeding but you don't really feel threatened.

Not at all man, Google shark attack Balian and you'll get a heap of hits. They've all been pretty minor injuries so there's no reason to expect it to make international news. If it had been a couple of fatals followed by another few attacks over a couple of years you could expect mass hysteria. But one little love bite a year with the amount of surfing hours spent there per annum is nothing to get excited about.

Bali is under attack by sharks, sharks are everywhere , millions of them it's just the start,,, if you know what's good for you DONT GO to Bali , especially around September next year.

Where did that other post go? I wanted to re look at it on the laptop !

Hey JB - nothing to worry about - there are loads of issues in Indo - from pollution to water quality to housing to sharks to political issues to drinking water to sewage and storm water to governance to corruption to health etc When you look at that list - its not too dissimilar to the issues here in Oz - just a different scale and more likely that you are more aware of them as you live here. I can assure you that a lot of people are well aware of the Indo risks - they are happy to take them on as the waves are so so good. Same with Oz - lots of people are annoyed with how things work here at times - but heaps of people still live here and choose to travel here for holidays. Look at the Goldie to Ballina area or your SW corner of WA - both have had shark incidents - have you noticed a dramatic drop off in surfers?

After the Bali bombings there was hardly a surfer insight - I surfed Kuta Reef by myself for 4 days straight a few weeks afterward ! ! ! Unheard of now. Even when its 2 foot there are more people out there than your Perf beachies Surfing populations in Indo have gone ballistic since the bombings. Not many predicted that in the weeks after those events. Its only going to get worse. Its on everyones bucket list.

www.skynews.com.au/culture/offbeat/2016/04/28/man-surfs-on-after-being-attacked-by-shark.html