A man has urged others to be careful in the water after his wife’s morning swim almost took a frightening turn during a family holiday at a popular Aussie . Filip Chatys, his wife, Graza, and their three children kicked off their trip last week with a leisurely stroll along Boomerang Beach, near Forster on the . With the morning sun beaming off the inviting blue water, avid swimmer Graza couldn’t help but want to dive in like she does most mornings near her Terrigal home.
Unfamiliar with the area, she asked Filip if he believed it would be safe to go for a swim — prompting the enthusiast to send up his drone to have a look. To his surprise, he quickly spotted a large mature chucking its own laps just 50 metres from the shore. “It was enough evidence for her to change her thinking 180 degrees,” Filip, who documents his adventures , told Yahoo News on Tuesday.
And it wasn’t the only shark he saw “cruising the shallows” over the five-day holiday. “My wife really is keen to swim every morning and the water looks beautiful and although you can see it's super shallow, and you can meet with sharks everywhere..
. but these were very, very close,” Filip, who is originally from Poland and has been living in Australia for almost 10 years, said. Late one afternoon, the dad told Yahoo he visited the beach again with his children and was able to spot a shark about 100 metres away from another group of kids floating in the water, but it didn’t appear to be “interested.