Thanks to swarming schools of batfish on the Goldie sharks have come in from all over to chow down. That didn’t stop a 36-year-old surfer named Mugley from paddling through black clouds of batfish because it “wasn’t a bad left-hander.”
About 30 sharks up to 3m long were seen feeding on the schools, which stretched from Snapper Rocks to the Southport Seaway. . . “They were so thick I was treading on them on the way out,” said the 36-year-old surfer. . . “The water was clear so if there was a shark around I would have seen it a mile away. . . “I was on watch the whole time.” . . Mugley said he knew the danger of surfing with sharks. . . One of his Lismore university mates, Mark Penches, 25, died after his right leg was bitten off by a great white shark while surfing in South Africa in 1997. . . “It’s the luck of the draw,” said Mugley.
Aussie surfers are too tough to care, huh?
[Link: Goldcoast.com.au]
