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Massive Shark Drops Into Lennox Head For The School Holidays

It's 11km from the beach where a surfer was attacked.
Oh hai there!
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Oh hai there!

School holidays don't mean much to sharks, so a bronze whaler that dropped into the shallows at Lennox Head on Wednesday might have been surprised by the number of people there.

The shark was snapped by a swimmer who decided against going into the deep.

Lennox Head is about 11km from the Ballina beach where a surfer was mauled on the leg last month.

The shark sighting may be unusually close to shore, but a quick scan of the NSW Government's Shark Smart Twitter account shows there's barely a week that goes by without a sighting.

The feed compiles aerial photographs of sharks, reports when tagged sharks swim near a beacon and beach closures.

Thursday's feed of Ballina shows:

  • There was a shark herded out to sea to Boulder's Beach, Ballina, about 3pm;
  • A tagged white shark was detected by Sharpes Beach, Ballina about 2pm;
  • A shark was herded out to sea at Shelly Beach, Ballina about 1pm;
  • A 2.8m white shark was caught on a drum line near Lighthouse Beach, Ballina and dragged out to sea where it was released;
  • Another tagged white shark was identified at Sharpes Beach, Ballina about 10am; and
  • Two white sharks were spotted 100m off Lighthouse Beach before 10am.

In other words, there are a lot of sharky visitors to Ballina, school holidays or otherwise.

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