Feb 20, 2005 - Stradbroke Island, Shark In The Water

Attached are some photos of Stradbroke Island. We got a ferry from Cleveland (30 mins from Brisbane) across Moreton Bay to what the Aussie’s call “Straddie”. Stayed at Marnie’s friend’s house at Point Lookout. The island was a laid back, chilled out island with squeaky white sand and clear turquoise water. Straddie is also known for a high population of TIGER SHARKS as Eddie spotted whilst taking photos of Tony surfing. The shark was about 7 ft long and about 50 yards from Tony – minutes after we saw it, the lifeguard boats and helicopters were chasing it away. The weather has been scorching hot as proven by Eddie’s lobster red back/shoulders. We managed to catch a few waves on Main Beach – it was fun but nothing too clean. The wide open, uncrowded main beach that is 38 kilometers long left much to the imagination with spectacular scenery and uncrowded wave potential…… need a cyclone swell! Just before we left the island we went to Brown Lake (gets its name from surrounding tea trees) where we had our first sighting of local Australian Aboriginees.

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Aboriginee Boy	Body Builder	Ferry To Straddie Island	Free Internet on Ferry	From the ferry	Chillin on the ferry
On the look out	Cylinder Beach	Africa Hot	Got Surf?	Tony surfing in back ground	Tony Dropping In
Life Savers	Cute kid	Shark Victum	Tony	Tony	Tony
Tony	Main Beach, Straddie	Looking For Sharks	Beach Bums	Got Icream?	French Mans Beach
Checking the surf	Tony	Sea Turtle	Checking The Gorge	Shark Watch	Main Beach, Straddie Island