15:34 • 17.03.21
Terrifying footage has captured the moment a shark came within metres of a surfer at a popular suburban beach.
A drone operated by Carved Banks captured the roughly two-metre long shark gradually drawing closer to the surfer just metres from the shore at Maroubra Beach in Sydney s eastern suburbs last weekend.
At one point the shark swam to within about 20m of the surfer as he tried to catch a wave, the Daily Mail reports.
Luckily for the surfer, the shark then did an about-turn and started heading away from the shore.
The breed is uncertain but the shark s wide pectoral fins suggest it is either a great white or a bull shark.
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Masks not mandatory. Bars and restaurants buzzing. Live music events. Wonderful beaches, every designer shop and huge financial incentives to boot.
No wonder Australia has taken over from Hollywood as the new epicentre of the entertainment industry.
For months, tinseltown A-listers have been quietly arriving and completing their 14-day hotel quarantines, while looking forward to the almost unfettered freedoms to be enjoyed.
Film production is under way everywhere from the sprawling city of Perth in the south-west to the remote glory of the Whitsunday Islands in the north-east.
Life s a beach: Natalie Portman in Byron Bay (left) and tinseltown star Julia Roberts (right)
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I wholeheartedly believe everyone is a ‘beach person’, no matter how hard they fight against it. Now, I understand that locations like Bondi or Manly Beach in peak-summer are enough to turn anyone off sun, sand and waves for good (see: obnoxious crowds, waiting two hours for overpriced hot chips, bad parking etc.), but, it doesn’t
have to be that way.
I’m here to remind you that we live on an island in the middle of the ocean and every major city is within a decent, drivable distance of some of the most ~stunning~, untouched beaches on the planet. If there’s one person who knows a thing or two about spending quality time near the water, it’s beach-queen and ex-Bachie star,
One too many?
Joyce Williams, Ōrewa (abridged)
Retirement villages – a growth industry with our ageing population – serve a vital need and most do so extremely well. However, too many of these large villages in the one location can be undesirable for several reasons: medical services to the community can only stretch so far and are already overloaded with so many elderly patients in one concentrated catchment; an area with an over concentration of one demographic range is not a desirable or sustainable outcome for the rest of the people in the area; competition in Ōrewa for new residents has become acute among existing and planned retirement villages. We are bombarded with advertising from operators on radio and through print media,including offers of food and wine to encourage visits and various financial incentives to tempt the potential new clientele. Is it a case of too many consents being given in too short a time to too many developers, thereby creating an excess of ret