As planned, I did a subbed patrol the day before Australia day. Patrol captain was the very capable Michael - also on the beach were two of our best young lifesavers and Greg the club’s chairman. The weather could not have been better. The stifling 40+ heat of the day before had given way to a cooler 26 degrees, blue skies, light winds. Even the surf got in on the act, peeling large 2m waves down the length of Seven Mile Beach. I was initially on duty in the radio room. The shark spotting plane Airpac 2 flew appeared over BlackHead and announced that a shark had been spotted 250m off the beach at Gerroa. I radioed down to the beach to tell Michael and he asked AirPac to do a few circuits to see if they could ascertain which way the shark was headed. After a few circuits they came back on the radio to say that the shark was headed off-shore back out to sea. Phew. I took my trigger finger off the shark alarm button and swapped the radio room for the beach. This blog entry continues here - http://www.thatstheplan.com/?p=355.