Sharks into cities doesn’t go – but they do – and too often these days.
With this recent attack on a woman at Sydney’s Coogee Beach, I have been thinking of my swims, a few bays around at Bondi Beach many years ago, in particular, one fine day. I was convinced by another to swim across the bay, starting out from Bondi Icebergers Club pool.
There is deep water behind the sand bank surf break. We swam across and back, perhaps 1000m, more because the beach itself is one kilometre. So we swam perhaps 1500m across and back. I can tell you I thought of sharks the whole way across and back. Were they watching us? Probably.
Are we too kind to them, the Great White in particular, giving them an all-year-round free city pass? Is it time for another novel on the horror of Big Whitey?
Swimanög 