A Day At The Beach (On one of the most remote islands in the world).

These photographs were captured on an extremely remote island in the Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. On Saturdays we usually hang out at the beach, do some fishing or just laze under a tree and read a book. Today we had all kinds of unexpected surprises!

My wife Hayley removing some Sardines from the cast net (she hates doing that).

 The clouds are always so amazing out here.

The beautiful beach. There were heaps of Sardines in the water today!

Water Study

 Cuttlefish and thongs hanging from a tree.

Cuttlefish.

 C and T.

 Incredible clouds.

 The most bizarre thing happened while we were fishing. A big machine drove along the beach! This NEVER happens.

Machine and kids fishing (catching more than us)...

Shark attacking the sardines!

The sharks of Mer Island

Morning cats!

The shallows of Mer island's incredible beaches are iconically filled with Sardines. It's quite a sight to see, however where there are bait fish there are always bigger fish and... Sharks. Mer has more sharks than I have ever seen in my life. Black and white tip reef sharks, huge Blind Sharks, sneaky Grey Nurse sharks (sneaky because they look just like blind sharks and will rip your leg off!), the epic tiger shark and, of course the Hammerhead shark, which are rumoured to tip dinghy's and can be seen chasing eagle rays close to the beach. It's enough to stop you going out in a boat ever again.

My first time fishing on the beach really opened my eyes as to how many sharks were around and how close they got to beaching themselves when in a feeding frenzy. I used to tell people how the kids grab their tails and jump into the water to scare them, i'm sure no one believed me. One day I was lucky enough to have my camera at the beach as a heard of sharks were feeding on sardines. These are a few of the images I captured on that day.


Enjoy : )
Lee.

I have the following three images from this series for sale in my Etsy store

Name: Shark Attack

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Name: Shark Attack Square

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Name: Shark Attack #2

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