A bad week to be a Queenslander
A Jellyfish sting kills a girl at Bamaga, in far north Queensland.
The Box JellyFish (Chironex Fleckeri) aka Fire Medusa or Indringa is often fatal and is present in tropical waters during the wet season. When I was in Townsville my Company Sergeant Major and his wife were attacked by a Box Jelly fish. She died and he was badly scarred for life.
A 21 year old woman was killed by a shark at Amity Point, just over the bay from where I live.
NORTH Stradbroke Island tourism operators have called for a shark-proof swimming enclosure to be built off Amity Point where a young woman was fatally mauled by up to three bull sharks at the weekend.
Sarah Kate Whiley, 21, from McDowall on Brisbane’s northside, was attacked while swimming in waist-high water about 15m off the beach late on Saturday afternoon.
The island’s beaches were closed to swimmers yesterday but were expected to reopen today.
Redland Shire Mayor Don Seccombe said council would consider installing a shark-proof fence when councillors returned from holidays. In the meantime warning signs would be erected.
Local fishermen said they were not surprised a pack of bull sharks was believed to be responsible.
A terrible business all round and a stark reminder of natures savagery.
A 21 year old woman was killed by a shark at Amity Point, just over the bay from where I live.
NORTH Stradbroke Island tourism operators have called for a shark-proof swimming enclosure to be built off Amity Point where a young woman was fatally mauled by up to three bull sharks at the weekend.
Sarah Kate Whiley, 21, from McDowall on Brisbane’s northside, was attacked while swimming in waist-high water about 15m off the beach late on Saturday afternoon.
The island’s beaches were closed to swimmers yesterday but were expected to reopen today.
Redland Shire Mayor Don Seccombe said council would consider installing a shark-proof fence when councillors returned from holidays. In the meantime warning signs would be erected.
Local fishermen said they were not surprised a pack of bull sharks was believed to be responsible.
A terrible business all round and a stark reminder of natures savagery.
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Pity we couldn’t convince the hippies, leftwingers, civil libertarians, Australian Greens and Democrats, and fairfax journalists to go swimming in the same shark infested waters so that they could get “the other point” of view. LOL.
I blame global warming myself….and John Howard of course.
If he had signed the Kyoto thingie then the water wouldn’t be so hot and the sharks wouldn’t keep trying to cool off at the beach.
hi there just want to let u no she wasnt 19 and if you could change that as ppl may be upset about it that its a false age of the young girl , and i really dont like your heading a bad week to be a queenslander because its not all of queensland its just that island and ppl may get the wrong impression thanks
Thanks Renee for the tip on my Typo (19 instead of 21). People who are regular readers shouldn’t get the wrong idea. I go on and on about how good it is to live in Queensland but occassionaly even paradise has problems.