WA
78 posts
What's with the large number of forum topics to do with sharks. Sharks are always going to be there so get over it.
Whenever you kitesurf in shark hotspots you should always have the thought in the back of your head, but not to the point of s#!TING yourself.
It's like everyones been living in the desert all their lives, and they've went in the ocean for the first time straight after watching a jaws marathon for the first time.
WA
4263 posts
Right-on Sprouse.
The paranoia is mindless.
I've said it before, sharks live in the ocean.
Get it.
QLD
337 posts
hang on guys i know were your comin from i have been paddling the seaway alot especially while i was at uni (6years of pure surfing bliss). 1989 yea that was the heady days before boogi was even seen. Only ever seen three sharkes and know some good stories and am convinced they do not like how we smell let alon taste.
But my mate was hit at main beach (qld)...........granted he was doing something silly but he is freaked now. And i do not care what anyone says but down south were the great whites are havin a nibble..... fark me glad i do not hang down that way
QLD
927 posts
Waveslave, I thought we trapped most of them in the Gold Coast canals? Did you help them to find their way out?
SA
2288 posts
If u lived down south u would be ****tin ur dacks 2.
I live in Adelaide i have a reason to hate those sharks.
I was kiting the very next day after that Nick Peterson Guy got taken out so it doesnt stop me, im not a *****.
Still its always in the back of your mind, Once or twice cars have driven along the beach and told me to get off the water cuz of sharks thats how annoying they are.
I rekon we got to start killing them off, wat good are they anyway.
WA
2184 posts
they free up some of the room that swimmers would otherwise occupy.
just an idear.
SA
2288 posts
yeah u are right
scared all the swimmers and kooks off the water for a while unfortunately not the pbers tho
WA
4263 posts
PsYLoR,
Nothing can find its way out of the canal maze of the Goldie.
Jap tourists have been marooned on Chevron Island for years.
They survive on a staple diet of bull shark sushi and KFC.
WA
4263 posts
Kitecrazzzy,
It's certainly a small place, WA.
I knew Brad back in the 80's cause we were neighbours in the same street in Scarbs.
The bit about 120 metres offshore puzzles me?
That distance would place Brad well outside the surf zone cause Scarbs is an inshore beachy.
Probably a typo.
SA
2288 posts
Well if ur kiting and u start geting mauled just launch into a kite loop, probably rip u in 2 tho.
Imagine if the shark ate the bar so that it started getting caned by the kite hahaha.
Once when i fell of my board when i was beggining and i got circled by a fin there is definately much u can do to defend urself with a kite yanking you one way.
QLD
5283 posts
i guess you'll handle that one when it happens.
if!
don't even worry about it .
it would be much different to how you imagined it to be.
