Australia’s great experiment to fish its oceans clean of every species with the exception of the vexatious Great White shark and then sit back and see what happens yielded more fruit yesterday when a flotilla of surfers was cleared from the water by a fifteen-footer.
Hein Cooper, a noted surfer/musician from Milton, near Ulladulla on the NSW South Coast, was shredding a nearby point when a four-foot high fin made a sudden appearance.
"Nature seems to be really, really turning on," he says, "Apparently there's heaps of sharks and heaps of fish. Everything is alive… I feel so grateful to come close to an animal like that and not die!"
