Rockhunter62 said:
Yes Bush but Lake Maquarrie has sea access so it's not surprising.
Cheers
Doug
What surprises me is though someone like a Marine Scientist that `I` would presume would have spent thousands of hours in the Ocean Diving and Snorkeling to come unstuck in an inlet bay in shallow water just having a splash around on a hot day.
Just bad luck for the poor guy.
Small story to go with this as follows.
Lucky Boy.
My brother of Emu Park and some readers here will know who he is. Locals call him Micky Fynn.
A retired Deep Sea Diver who was employed by our Defence Force as a Hydrographic Surveyor in Oceanography and Navigator on the HMAS Port Moresby Civil Division drawing and plotting charts around The Solomon Islands in the mid 70`s.
Being a heath and fitness fanatic maniac he use to go for a swim off of Emu Park Beach every second or third morning.
There was a buoy or marker out off the beach there a couple of hundred meters out the back .
He would use this marker as a distance guide of which he would swim around and swim back.
On one particular morning a Fisherman catches a World record Tiger Shark 5.5 meters right in that vicinity.
`i` think they were winching it up the beach when he arrived there.
He now walks the beach for exercise.
The biggest shark caught in Queensland is a 5.5m Tiger shark caught at Emu Park on 10 March 2012.