The Australians, however, remain nonplussed.
HAWKS NEST, Australia - Shocking photos emerged Thursday of a great white shark lurking in the shallow waters of an Australian beach as two little boys play happily on the sand.
The photographs, published by The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, show how frighteningly close the juvenile maneater came to the shoreline at Bennetts beach in Hawks Nest, a popular tourist destination about 130 miles (210 km) north of Sydney.
The images were taken a few weeks ago on the same stretch of beach where wakeboarder Lisa Mondy was mauled by a great white on March 16.
Locals said that while shark sightings were not uncommon, to see them so close to the beach was rare and alarming.
David and Tracey Lowe were at the beach the day these photos were taken and saw a 6.5 ft (2m) great white, less than 32ft (10m) from the beach.
"We thought this was a good spot to go swimming and at first it looked like a shadow or something in the water," Tracey Lowe said.
"Then this wave came up and you could see the shark swimming through it. Once you got over the fear it was quite fascinating.
"There were two sharks at one point but the other one just came in close for a short while and then moved out again."
Hawks Nest Surf Life Saving Club president Stephen Howell said sightings were common at this time of year because of the schools of bait fish and salmon in the area, adding, "That's what the sharks are after."
Rare and alarming, huh? Excuse me while I go change my underwear.
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