http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/04/18/10/43/great-white-shark-shocks-wa-beachgoer

Make a mental note that Cheynes Beach could be one to give a miss on a trip down south!

How is Albany for sharks??

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CMC said...
How is Albany for sharks??

Sharky... There was a bad attack at Middleton beach not that long ago...

Plus I am told they still hang around the old whaling station.

I have seen some classic days down around that area but just didn't feel comfortable to paddle out by myself...

I tend to head to Ocean Beach in Denmark instead... at least there's some help around.

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CMC said...
How is Albany for sharks??

When are you coming over?

I was down there last January & got talking to a couple of guys who had taken some pics of a mate surfing & then noticed later on that there was a big shark in the background of one of the shots.

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doggie said...

CMC said...
How is Albany for sharks??

When are you coming over?

We have family there, the wife and daughter were there last week and want to head back again. Her sales pitch is the waves and lack of crowd she seen. Might happen sooner or later with a super close friend giving us staff travel on Virgin.

Oh the other part of the pitch was the beachfront house, boat, bmw convertible and jet skis we can use

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CMC said...

doggie said...

CMC said...
How is Albany for sharks??

When are you coming over?

We have family there, the wife and daughter were there last week and want to head back again. Her sales pitch is the waves and lack of crowd she seen. Might happen sooner or later with a super close friend giving us staff travel on Virgin.

Oh the other part of the pitch was the beachfront house, boat, bmw convertible and jet skis we can use

Drop me a line if you do, a jetski ay........mmmmmmmm

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doggie said...

CMC said...
How is Albany for sharks??

When are you coming over?

We have family there, the wife and daughter were there last week and want to head back again. Her sales pitch is the waves and lack of crowd she seen. Might happen sooner or later with a super close friend giving us staff travel on Virgin.

Oh the other part of the pitch was the beachfront house, boat, bmw convertible and jet skis we can use

I love Albany, its our run to every break away from home now. In fact wife and kids are of the first week of the school holidays. I'm stuck at work sadly..Surf is great but it would be nice to have a mate to surf with. Some of the beaches you tend to feel very lonely...

Great food and good retail as well. Local board shaper, two skate parks, fantastic running routes, great down hill bike tracks, what else could you want

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CMC said...

doggie said...

CMC said...
How is Albany for sharks??

When are you coming over?

We have family there, the wife and daughter were there last week and want to head back again. Her sales pitch is the waves and lack of crowd she seen. Might happen sooner or later with a super close friend giving us staff travel on Virgin.

Oh the other part of the pitch was the beachfront house, boat, bmw convertible and jet skis we can use

I love Albany, its our run to every break away from home now. In fact wife and kids are of the first week of the school holidays. I'm stuck at work sadly..Surf is great but it would be nice to have a mate to surf with. Some of the beaches you tend to feel very lonely...

Great food and good retail as well. Local board shaper, two skate parks, fantastic running routes, great down hill bike tracks, what else could you want

One of those Skate parks is the oldest remaining skatepark in the world too,since the Kona skatepark was demolished.
I used to spend a fair bit of time down there, it always used to surprise me some of the waves going unridden. 6 foot freight train barrels over sand and no body out, but the jaws music playing in my head and that unnerving feeling of being scoped out usually made for pretty short sessions.

It'd be a bitch getting back up those stairs with one leg too.

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One of those Skate parks is the oldest remaining skatepark in the world too,since the Kona skatepark was demolished.
I used to spend a fair bit of time down there, it always used to surprise me some of the waves going unridden. 6 foot freight train barrels over sand and no body out, but the jaws music playing in my head and that unnerving feeling of being scoped out usually made for pretty short sessions.

Well the down hill park on Hare st is about 600 meters down from our house. Its scary, my daughter is so far the only one who has lost skin in a big way. There are signs up referring to a death or two as well.

If you walk it and get rid of the sticks and honky nuts first its not so bad..

I don't mind the beaches for big fish, its the currents and the fact that there's nothing between you and Antarctica many times Maybe a PLB epirb would be the go

I really love my morning jog from the top of Hare st, around through the man street of town when, up around the point, down to Middleton and back up the hill to Mt Clarence..

I just bought my son his first Freeride (jump bike) and looking to find a down hill cross mountain bike for myself so we can enjoy Mt Clarence track to its fullest..

Oh and Albany Surf and skate would have to be one of my fav shops..

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smicko said...
It'd be a bitch getting back up those stairs with one leg too.

Im yet to surf there, i reacon the stairs with two legs would be hard enough

Felt like I was getting stalked by the man in the grey suit , just taking the photo from the hill on this day

And that's a hell of a lot bigger than the 2-3ft it looks too. I was silly enough to paddle out there one day when it looked like a really nice 3-4ft from up the top. Bolted down the stairs and jumped straight in, it wasn't until I was getting funnelled out the deep murky rip towards Antarctica that the lamp posts started draining off the bank in a cold imitation of Peurto that I went "oh poop what have I gotten my self into".

Took me about an hour to scrape into a "little" six foot death keg between dodging bombs and feeling like an entree to make it ashore. Even the last 50m channel is a hell mission, it's like a river in flood.

Grovelled my way back up the stairs to where the two local lads that I'd gone down there with were waiting for one of them to say "Yeah, thought you were a bit keen goin out there. It's way too ****en big to surf today."

Thanks for the heads up fellas. Thanks.

au.news.yahoo.com/talk-of-artifical-reef-resurfaces-16761348.html

Could even have a artificial reef

Not sure about the several millions of dollars

Albanys not the only place would benefit from a few reefs scatered around the place. It would be nice if a few of those big mining companies sponowed a coupled of reefs. Few million bucks is loose change on the fridge for those blokes.

Thats a big shark. Should keep the shark problem in peoples minds and keep the crowds down a bit.

It would have been a nomination for the darwin awards if the shark had a bit of life left in it.