I drove three hours south of Perth and after checking out a couple of breaks opted to get in the water at Smiths Beach where there are a good number of others are already in the water.
Whilst being no guarantee of not being attacked being part of a crowd obviously improves your chances of not being the chosen meal! You would have to be staggeringly unlucky to get attacked but this article should give you some idea about why I am concerned so much in this part of the world.
All the people in the water are really friendly and the sea is so clear you could see all the way to the sandy bottom, which settles me down because you would at least see anything coming you way.
This is a great picture of me having second thoughts about taking the drop on one of the head high waves because it it about to thump down right across the bay.
I did manage to make a few drops though and even a handful of turns on one wave before the broken section would catch up with me.
It is hard to tell whether I am surfing the wave or it was surfing me in this shot, but I managed to stay upright a while longer. It was quite a heavy wave breaking over the sand here and more than once I surfaced after wiping out wondering if my board would be in two pieces.
It was late in the afternoon when I arrived and there really wasn’t much daylight left by the time I caught this ride in at the end of my session.
The number of surfers in the water was thinning out and I didn’t want to be the only thing on the menu!
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