We paddled into Boat Harbour today, just south of Nelson Bay and for the first time properly got fin fear. It's a little like Sunday paranoid hangover fear except you're afraid of being eaten by a monster with 1000 teeth rather than just being looked at or bumped into whilst queing at the Coles check-out.
It was a sunny but really windy day and we'd left late because of a few beers with Scott's cousins the night before...so essentially we had Sunday paranoid hangover fear, but with high winds and choppy seas in an unstable 2 person kayak surrounded by sharks - sound like fun? First we saw a 1 1/2 metre juvenile hammerhead, then a 3 metre shark, then a menacing piece of sea weed, leading eventually to both of us getting twitchy and imagining every bit of white water and dark shape was Jaws about to take an arm off. We didn't have much to say as we were both feeling sick and were concentrating too hard on staying upright. Tomorrow's a big paddle to Newcastle accross Stockton Beach. Stockton beach is known for it's Great Whites - see SMH article http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/reeling-in-great-white-sharks/2005/10/22/1129775998728.html .
It's going to be so much fun!
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