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Forums > Surfing Shortboards

SW beach closed again

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Created by Greenroom > 9 months ago, 4 Oct 2011
Greenroom
WA, 7608 posts
4 Oct 2011 11:01PM
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Several beaches in WA's south-west have been closed this afternoon after a big shark was seen less than 20m from the shore.

A surfer reported seeing a large shark near Huzza's Surf Break in Cowaramup Bay at 3.10pm today.

As a safety precaution, the Augusta-Margaret River shire has closed the beach and several others nearby for 24 hours.

www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/surfer-reports-shark-close-to-shore-ng-d437b0d1518dc5debff9e35689931487

surferstu
1011 posts
5 Oct 2011 12:50AM
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might have something to do with the beached whale rotting at smiths beach.

GPA
WA, 2520 posts
5 Oct 2011 9:19AM
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Great! (not)

Heading down on Sunday... and as I am with the family was just hoping for a couple of quick sessions at the more popular spots...

Must admit to being a little uncomfortable with all the reports of Men in Grey suits - and yes, yes - I know that they are there all the time...

default
WA, 1255 posts
5 Oct 2011 10:08AM
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^^ but more so this time of year...and also April-ish

GPA
WA, 2520 posts
5 Oct 2011 12:58PM
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^^^
Yes, I've been surfing a remote beach on the South coast at Easter time when the Salmon are running. That is until the professional fishermen tell you what they see out there (10ft Tiger sharks lurking just behind the breakers).

Makes you think twice when you are a 30 min 4WD trip from anyone... quite unsettling and enough to make me come in despite perfect 4ft lefts and rights...

I preferred it when I didn't know what was out there!!!

subasurf
WA, 2154 posts
5 Oct 2011 1:53PM
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Meh...personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

GPA
WA, 2520 posts
5 Oct 2011 2:08PM
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subasurf said...

Meh...personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest.


Neither did I at your age... once you have a wife and kids; and/or you've been in hospital healing from a rather nasty accident it changes your outlook and you start to consider things more...

jbshack
WA, 6913 posts
5 Oct 2011 2:47PM
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GPA said...

subasurf said...

Meh...personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest.


Neither did I at your age... once you have a wife and kids; and/or you've been in hospital healing from a rather nasty accident it changes your outlook and you start to consider things more...


Oh to be young and invisible again..Those were the days

Ados
WA, 421 posts
5 Oct 2011 4:33PM
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jbshack said...

GPA said...

subasurf said...

Meh...personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest.


Neither did I at your age... once you have a wife and kids; and/or you've been in hospital healing from a rather nasty accident it changes your outlook and you start to consider things more...


Oh to be young and invisible again..Those were the days


I think it has less to do with having a family and more to do with becoming an adult. Older people are generally more conservative in their approach because they know from experience certain situations result in undesired outcomes. its basic learned behaviour.... some people never learn.


doggie
WA, 15849 posts
5 Oct 2011 4:38PM
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Ados said...

jbshack said...

GPA said...

subasurf said...

Meh...personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest.


Neither did I at your age... once you have a wife and kids; and/or you've been in hospital healing from a rather nasty accident it changes your outlook and you start to consider things more...


Oh to be young and invisible again..Those were the days


I think it has less to do with having a family and more to do with becoming an adult. Older people are generally more conservative in their approach because they know from experience certain situations result in undesired outcomes. its basic learned behaviour.... some people never learn.





I made it to 40, most of my mates thought it was amazing I got 30

GPA
WA, 2520 posts
5 Oct 2011 4:40PM
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Ados said...

jbshack said...

GPA said...

subasurf said...

Meh...personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest.


Neither did I at your age... once you have a wife and kids; and/or you've been in hospital healing from a rather nasty accident it changes your outlook and you start to consider things more...


Oh to be young and invisible again..Those were the days


I think it has less to do with having a family and more to do with becoming an adult. Older people are generally more conservative in their approach because they know from experience certain situations result in undesired outcomes. its basic learned behaviour.... some people never learn.



Correct... although it took me four major cycling accidents that resulted in broken bones to realise how much it hurt and to slow my riding down!!

Someone once told me that the brain cannot remember pain - you remember it hurting etc - but the body forgets 'pain'... But I call B.S. as I can still remember the pain of that last stack in April - FN hand still aches (broke the little finger off the hand in 3 places).

Poida
WA, 1916 posts
5 Oct 2011 5:09PM
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might be Mr Big again


there are signs up either end of smiths beach saying there is a whale carcass. we couldnt see one, and there was a nice bank in the middle of the bay on the weekend, so decided to go surfing.

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
5 Oct 2011 5:13PM
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Poida said...



might be Mr Big again


there are signs up either end of smiths beach saying there is a whale carcass. we couldnt see one, and there was a nice bank in the middle of the bay on the weekend, so decided to go surfing.


Can get good in there in winter, too much sand in summer.

jimbo76
WA, 46 posts
5 Oct 2011 5:46PM
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yep real good when that little creek at the southern end (below the look out)breaks through and forms really, really nice banks - just a bit cold that creek water area though.

GPA
WA, 2520 posts
5 Oct 2011 6:27PM
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Groan!

Windmills, Huzzas, The Farm and now Smiths all off the holiday surf list...

What's the bet a shark is sighted at Injinup between now and Sunday!

birdman89
77 posts
5 Oct 2011 6:44PM
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GPA said...

Groan!

Windmills, Huzzas, The Farm and now Smiths all off the holiday surf list...

What's the bet a shark is sighted at Injinup between now and Sunday!


You can't swim from windmills to huzzas without going past inji...

GPA
WA, 2520 posts
5 Oct 2011 6:56PM
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^^^
I know! I was being a smartarse...

subasurf
WA, 2154 posts
5 Oct 2011 7:43PM
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GPA said...

subasurf said...

Meh...personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest.


Neither did I at your age... once you have a wife and kids; and/or you've been in hospital healing from a rather nasty accident it changes your outlook and you start to consider things more...


Gee...way to make assumptions there mate.
Age has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Agent000
161 posts
5 Oct 2011 10:26PM
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subasurf said...

GPA said...

subasurf said...

Meh...personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest.


Neither did I at your age... once you have a wife and kids; and/or you've been in hospital healing from a rather nasty accident it changes your outlook and you start to consider things more...


Gee...way to make assumptions there mate.
Age has absolutely nothing to do with it.


guess we have too wait till you're 50 to be sure

vishy
WA, 451 posts
6 Oct 2011 8:42AM
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I was out at South Point on Monday morning, after the other fellow paddled in a fairly pointy fin appeared just northwest of where the sets were breaking, caught the next set in. Turns out I was bleeding quite badly from my foot where I sliced it on some barnacles

Definitely a few around down there at the moment,

Matt

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
6 Oct 2011 10:25AM
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vishy said...

I was out at South Point on Monday morning, after the other fellow paddled in a fairly pointy fin appeared just northwest of where the sets were breaking, caught the next set in. Turns out I was bleeding quite badly from my foot where I sliced it on some barnacles

Definitely a few around down there at the moment,

Matt


Lucky mate, bloody hell I would have crapped myself!!

default
WA, 1255 posts
6 Oct 2011 10:35AM
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subasurf said...

Meh...personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest.


ha, when you actually see a whitey cruise past beneath you, I reckon you might think differently. It was the most scared I have ever been, and it changed my whole outlook. It looked like a submarine cruising past - dead still except for its forward momentum.

Saying that, it may have been one

birdman89
77 posts
6 Oct 2011 12:00PM
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GPA said...

^^^
I know! I was being a smartarse...


Haha so was I

Woodo
WA, 792 posts
6 Oct 2011 12:37PM
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Poida said...
[might be Mr Big again


there are signs up either end of smiths beach saying there is a whale carcass. we couldnt see one, and there was a nice bank in the middle of the bay on the weekend, so decided to go surfing.


Mate your keen.
I don't have a problem jumping in the water pretty much anytime but you wouldn't get me out there when there is or has been a whale carcas washed up recently.
That would be like burleying up for a day then going for a dip in your burley trail.
Only a matter of time before something is going to be sniffing around...
(Bank does look fun but)

GPA
WA, 2520 posts
6 Oct 2011 12:50PM
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Woodo said...

Poida said...
[might be Mr Big again


there are signs up either end of smiths beach saying there is a whale carcass. we couldnt see one, and there was a nice bank in the middle of the bay on the weekend, so decided to go surfing.


Mate your keen.
I don't have a problem jumping in the water pretty much anytime but you wouldn't get me out there when there is or has been a whale carcas washed up recently.
That would be like burleying up for a day then going for a dip in your burley trail.
Only a matter of time before something is going to be sniffing around...
(Bank does look fun but)


+1 really bummed with this... I agree with both of you - that little right hander looks like fun - but not keen on mixing it with the whale burley!!!

TimKay
752 posts
6 Oct 2011 1:13PM
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Was a couple of 4m beasts spotted off boat ramps dunsborough yesterday as well

subasurf
WA, 2154 posts
6 Oct 2011 1:16PM
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default said...

subasurf said...

Meh...personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest.


ha, when you actually see a whitey cruise past beneath you, I reckon you might think differently.



Happened on three separate occasions and twice with Tiger Sharks. I've even had a whitey come within an arms reach of me and then decide he wasn't interested.
Yes, ofcourse it is a frightening moment, but I don't dwell on it at all afterwards and certainly don't get put off by it.

To be totally honest, it reassures my knowledge that they are rarely ever interested in us. The odds are stacked in my favour and that gives me reassurance.

I'm not trying be all macho; there are plenty of things in this world that scare me. Sharks just aint one of them.

Anyhoo, spoke to a guy at Secrets this morning who just got back from Margs. Personally saw two whiteys in one week, different ones too. Super sharky down there at the moment.

LateStarter
WA, 589 posts
6 Oct 2011 2:22PM
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jbshack
WA, 6913 posts
6 Oct 2011 4:21PM
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default said...

subasurf said...

Meh...personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest.


ha, when you actually see a whitey cruise past beneath you, I reckon you might think differently. It was the most scared I have ever been, and it changed my whole outlook. It looked like a submarine cruising past - dead still except for its forward momentum.

Saying that, it may have been one



Haha thats why i like Mullas. SO much weed you wouldn't see it if it bumped you in the leg atm

GPA
WA, 2520 posts
6 Oct 2011 4:29PM
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Haha thats why i like Mullas. SO much weed you wouldn't see it if it bumped you in the leg atm




Not even a GW could get through that weed-soup at the moment - it is seriously so thick that we saw two guys literally come to a sudden stop mid wave as it snagged their leggy... I'll be looking elsewhere for the next few days...

Poida
WA, 1916 posts
6 Oct 2011 4:30PM
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Woodo said...

Poida said...
[might be Mr Big again


there are signs up either end of smiths beach saying there is a whale carcass. we couldnt see one, and there was a nice bank in the middle of the bay on the weekend, so decided to go surfing.


Mate your keen.
I don't have a problem jumping in the water pretty much anytime but you wouldn't get me out there when there is or has been a whale carcas washed up recently.
That would be like burleying up for a day then going for a dip in your burley trail.
Only a matter of time before something is going to be sniffing around...
(Bank does look fun but)


we checked the beach and no carcass, so unless it was just out floating around, but couldnt see it. dont know how long the sign has been there?

I wouldnt have gone out if there was a carcass on the beach or in the shallows, even if the surf was good.



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