Lake Macquarie Shark Sighting

[mxrocks1000]

thats the exact veiw i get of my warf

[mxrocks1000]

is that near bonells bay

[leethacksawninja1]

I HATE westlakes.

[germylulu]

dammit i want to see a shark! but not when im in the water...

[matthewtitans]

yeah hi was on a donut today with a 6 ft Bull Shark at Gwandalan today and saw it a few times during the day in about 2.5 metres of water chasing fish

[briflip1234]

ha i live in wangi and my dad sees heaps but i never do

[stoneexteriors]

G'day mate we were out fishing this week on the lake 17/03/11 and followed the same shark for about 30min. It was overcast and choppy we thought we spotted another group of 3 further head but we stayed with the one we had.

[goldacer1]

hey mate im from bolton point area, beleive it or not im starting to catch jewfish under fennels bay bridge early in the morning all around 14kg , nice shark sighting btw ive seen afew hammerheads around wangi way

[broadcastingmyself1]

@goldacer1

thanks mate. what r u catching them on?

[goldacer1]

@broadcastingmyself1 fresh squid mainly ...i havnt caught any recently now but the big greenback tailor are going crazy now the waters are warming up :)

[awsomesmaximus]

How bout u stfu and google it nerds...

[PokemonNuke]

yup bull shark

[justajerseygal]

Bull sharks are the only sharks that can go from salt to fresh water. If this is a fresh water lake then it has to be a bull shark. Bull sharks also have the most testosterone of any animal on the planet which makes them that more aggressive and that more dangerous. I wouldn't be swimming in this lake and I am from NJ where the bull shark here started the Jaws movies

[sega31098]

@justajerseygal

It's saltwater and linked to sea, so it's not really a lake.

[mickjbull]

@sega31098

Yep.. thats called a saltwater lake.. face palm

[sega31098]

@mickjbull By the way, I'm obsessed with saline lakes so I do research on saline lakes.

[mickjbull]

@sega31098

Haven't you heard of a salt water lake? ..

[sega31098]

@mickjbull

Yes, I have, but they're generally never linked to ocean waters. Saltwater lakes are generally more inland and have no outlet hence salinity. The Caspian Sea is a very good example. If ocean waters compose basins it is a lagoon.

[sega31098]

@mickjbull A

[mickjbull]

@sega31098

its a lake.

[sega31098]

@mickjbull

It's a coastal lagoon. Many bays and lagoons like Lake Maracaibo are called lakes too.

[Edwardluva888]

i didn't think sharks lived in freshwater areas :O

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

I would be casting my line that way. What a trophy...and caught in a lake!

[pomp2007]

theres a great white in the lake now!!

[KoL114]

lol that's creepy, even though its little, I was waiting for that guy to fall in lol

[AdelaideCastle]

Two sharks were like, right next to my brother when he was wakeboarding at Lake Macquarie last year,

But there's always been sharks in there.

[krazykatiekat1]

i was water skiing when i saw 2 bull sharks right near me :S

[StillnessVanishing]

That's...unsettling .

[sinerules]

yeah just saw something about 10feet long, not sure of the type but definitely a shark right near the shore of coal point... making it's way to toronto.

[MrKustomVids]

saw a 2m hammerhead near warners bay got photos

[suzukirider103]

we saw 2 on the other side of pulbah a couple of weeks ago

[lectrickmusic]

They're probably bull sharks

[paniaisforever]

wow remind me to never swim there again!

[privatemaz]

just to clear it up for danfree, lake maquarie while being a physical lake is also a city, eg warnersbay is a suburb of the city of lake maquarie not newcastle

[07maguiren]

OMG !!! 00:05 its NESSY!

[nickem7873]

Yes danfree I do know where lake macquarie is because my job causes me to know the districts and subrurbs around the north central and southern coast. Mainly focusing on the hunter and lake macuarie. Hense I do know where it is and that's not part of newcastle!!

[EroticSlob]

@nickem7873 Hey where exactly was this?

[roflmanlol08]

sharks scare me

[amielou02]

there has always been sharks in the lake, specially bull sharks.... but now they have stopped netting the lake, there is more fish coming in, hence more sharks coming in.. reports now have seen a great white in there, lots of hammerheads

[bradthelegend]

sharks have always been in lake macquarie mostly down the south end after pulbah island and mainly hanging around the warm outlets of the power stations in that area,but after 3-4 years ago when trawlers were stopped dragging the lake at night ,there is reports of more active marine life, meaning it brings in the sharks ,no big deal.

[cowmasterbob]

were is that lake?

[nickem7873]

Just south of Newcastle, NSW Australia.

[DanFree13]

it is IN Newcastle, NSW Australia

[nickem7873]

@DanFree13

no it's not IN Newcastle, NSW Australia, Lake Macquarie is no IN Newcastle

[DanFree13]

well i have been to Lake Macquarie more times that i could count, and i go to Lake Macquaurie via the suburb Warners Bay which is a suburb of Newcastle.

[nickem7873]

i live and have Lived in Lake Macquarie for 26 years

[DanFree13]

then you should know Lake Macquarie is in Newcastle.

I'm not trying to say that Lake Macquarie is solely in Newcastle. Lake Macquarie touches numerous parts of the east coast between newcastle and Gosfrod.

[Ed2033]

no it doesnt. it doesnt go anywere near gosford. look it up on the map.

[baydostyles]

he means newy and the cenral coast.any1 from around the lake knows this any1 who doesnt well doessnt matter go figure

[CFITZ800]

Lol with sharks in the water, you wouldnt get me on a boat. Especially standing up.

[sqgl]

Great footage. Thanks. Lakes Mail claims that to date nobody has been badly injured ever in Lake Macquarie but I did stop my sunset swims this year because of reports of sharks coming further south (perhaps due to climate change and warmer waters).

What spot was this exactly please? And what time of day?

[broadcastingmyself1]

well its hard to say exactly because we saw them in a few locations... but this was near pulbah island... about 2-300 mtrs off the 'isolated danger' marker if u know that? its about 600 mtrs northwest of the island from memory.

and again hard to be sure, but i think about 4:30 in the arvo was when we saw most the action.

[gizzoc]

Most likely to be bull sharks, they are supposed to like murky water and have been well know to frequent sydney waters, even up the paramatter river.

[sqgl]

Yes but what I was trying to say is that they are staying south later in the summer than they used to.

[glebeboy21]

hey mate i was fishin with my grandpa about a year ago in our spot just between pulbah and wangi, directly out from boydies channel and we had quite a large shark circle our boat for about 5 minutes. Dont know wat type it was but i'd say it was at least 3 metres long, big bugger it was.

[boatman3333]

we have been wakeboarding up their for years and only saw 1 shark in chain valley bay in january this year

[adzmc81]

would have been pretty funny if the shark gave the tinny a little knock and old mate fell over board..

that would have taught him to get close to a shark!