{"id":6740,"date":"2009-03-24T10:16:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T17:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6740"},"modified":"2009-03-24T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T17:16:24","slug":"mugley-surfs-through-sharks-no-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6740","title":{"rendered":"Mugley Surfs Through Sharks No Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/baitfishjpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/baitfishjpg.jpeg','popup','width=344,height=455,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/baitfish-tm.jpg\" height=\"264\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Baitfish.Jpg.\" \/><\/a>Thanks to swarming schools of batfish on the Goldie sharks have come in from all over to chow down. That didn&#8217;t stop a 36-year-old surfer named <strong>Mugley<\/strong> from paddling through black clouds of batfish because it &#8220;wasn&#8217;t a bad left-hander.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 30 sharks up to 3m long were seen feeding on the schools, which stretched from Snapper Rocks to the Southport Seaway. . . &#8220;They were so thick I was treading on them on the way out,&#8221; said the 36-year-old surfer. . . &#8220;The water was clear so if there was a shark around I would have seen it a mile away. . . &#8220;I was on watch the whole time.&#8221; . . 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. . . &#8220;It&#8217;s the luck of the draw,&#8221; said Mugley.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aussie surfers are too tough to care, huh?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/article\/2009\/03\/25\/62871_gold-coast-news.html\" target=\"_blank\">Goldcoast.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to swarming schools of batfish on the Goldie sharks have come in from all over to chow down. That didn&#8217;t stop a 36-year-old surfer named Mugley from paddling through black clouds of batfish because it &#8220;wasn&#8217;t a bad left-hander.&#8221; About 30 sharks up to 3m long were seen feeding on the schools, which stretched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6741,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions\/6741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}