God damn it...
www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes
Sounds like it was just opposite Shearwater.
you've already been attacked at wello chairman! 
now one's waiting to nibble your bum at shearwater. 
Jeez...the first time I sailed at Shearwater, I broke my fin off in the shallows halfway across...Nebs brought me out a spare fin, but in the meantime I was waiting for ages in waist-deep water, out in the middle, looking around for Mr Sharky... had I read this article before, I might've soiled my harness!!
Which raises an interesting question: is it possible to have a bowel movement while wearing a seat harness???
next time attach your harness to your rear foot strap (wrap it around the board so it goes under) and sail back using the harness as a type of fin. You will loose some ground but not as much as no fin and you will be less likely to become a sharks afternoon snack.
Or
You stay out there and give the shark something to chew on...keeping the rest of us safe 
or did the tide race in while you were waiting for Nebs.?
there is a shark observation point off south straddie in the broadwater near that location where tourists are taken to view sharks.
it is about 2km north of shearwater......
i stayed at south straddie recently and vowed not to go in the water there.
hahahahahahaha AAAARRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH there are sharks in the broadwater!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!
now really, a bite on the hand is hardly a SHARK ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!
with how many thousands of people are in the water on the goldy at any given time, not bad odds for the chance not to get bitten.
My dog bit my hand the other day while we were playing, im wondering if a press release stating " MAN ATTACKED BY DOG" would get the same attention and hysteria.
Actually my daughter got bitten by her soldier crab, woops sorry she was ATTACKED!
Makes me giggle anyway
My brother in law catches sharks for a living. He reckons there are thousands of them out in the ocean ranging from little ones to pretty big ones over 2 meters long.
Greenies want to stop shark fishing as they say sharks are top predators and by taking too many, other species will become too prolific. I don't see the problem with that because if something like a schnapper becomes too common we can go out and catch more. If my brother in law caught too many sharks and they became endangered then sure, thats a problem. However there seems to be heaps of them out in the ocean.
Many years ago I had a house at Thorneside and used to fish for sharks drifting between Manly Harbour and Wello Point / King Island.
I would hate to try to count the number of sharks we caught and the amount that got away by straightening hooks and breaking stainless traces.
The facts are that sharks dont really concider us as part of the food chain. If you get bitten its more bad luck than anything else.
S**t happens
Sharks are like big dogs. If you let them know who's boss than you won't get bitten. I have had numerous white pointers (30ft+ in length) come up to me when I'm surfing. I just stand my ground, look them in the eye and sometimes just flex my muscles, they usually spin around and swim away quickly.
You just need that oura about you, you guys probably won't have it like me, I am hardcore you know.
it's the pitbull terrier attribute of great whites that scares me most, where they suddenly switch from fairly docile to deciding they want to chew the crap out of everything that's not a shark
And the bull sharks. Wasn't it earlier this year a tourist got eaten by a number of bull sharks when swimming across a channel/dropoff there.
when you look at how many easy shark dinners sit on their surfboards for hours on end at sun up and sunset, and how few attacks or sightings there are, you'd think you'd have to have broken a mirror, killed a chinaman, and walked under a ladder all at once to have been attacked by one
Yeah, I like to think that the number of times a shark knows that you're there, yet you don't know they're there/near, compared to when you do know they're there, would probably be in the ratio of 1 million to one or greater. So it must be just extremely bad luck if you get nibbled/mouthed to see what you are - even worse bad luck if there are a few and any blood creates a little competition/frenzy amongst them as happened with the tourist. But that's life - far greater chance of getting run over by a bus.
in better news however, from the looks of the graphs we gonna have a windy few days before and after christmas day :D
yay for se qld
make the most of it, coz track records wise there'll be sweet nothing after it for a month 
yes i was 
but couldn't find any so i bought tent pegs and a stick on towel rail instead - where were you?
but couldn't find any so i bought tent pegs and a stick on towel rail instead - where were you?
On foxtel there's program called 'Tuna Wranglers'
It shows divers jumping into the holding nets with the tuna and wrestling the sharks that break in through the net back out. Makos and bronzies in the pens, great whites lurking outside pens .
So next time you see a shark just jump on it's back grab the snout and go for a ride
. However at $100,000 for a good 500kg+ tuna maybe the ride would be worth it.
Get real guys,
how many peolpe die in road accidents avery year. So damn many that it isn't even news.
If I'm lucky enough to get to the beach alive the odds are pretty good that I'm in for a good day. Just get out there !
The odds of getting attacked are very real!! Especially at Lancelin main break. Sharks everywhere there... everywhere....
