Jumping into the sea in QLD
 

Haven't been on here for a good year, but starting to get itchy feet again.
We're looking into eventually moving to QLD, and would like to know up to which town/city can you just run a jump into the sea without worrying about stingers?
I've heard and read different things, one says Townsville and up is a no go, and another says Hervey Bay and up.
Who can tell me.
We want to move to a coastal town,and since I grew up in sydney on the coast,would want to move back somewhere on the coast

thank

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The Bundaberg area is stinger free, some of the coastal areas here are Coral Cove, Innes Park, Bargara, Elliott Heads, Burnett Heads, Moore Park and Coonar, not sure about anything else between Hervey Bay and here

Gill

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Thought it was townsville and up.

Still dont assume you can just jump in anwhere in OZ south of that though, severe rips:eek:, bluebottles, etc

Good stuff too, we saw whales 2 weeks ago, just off where we surf:thumbup: ( Pt cartwright 1 hour north of brisbane ) have also seen a shark there, crusing along in the gutter late afernoon, just off shore:eek: tourist was saying it was a dolphin:lol:

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Talking about sharks...

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7437/image006ze1.jpg
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/shark.asp

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I grew up in Rocky - we didn't worry about stingers in Central Qld but they were known to be occasionally present - a kid got stung in Gladstone by a box jellyfish when I was in high school (late 80s). I'd say that you only really start to be concerned from Townsville up, but it is possible to get stung as far south as CQ. I don't know if this also translates to WA.

All of that said you are more likely to die during the drive to the beach than in the water!

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You should definitely be concerned much further south of Townsville as tourists can and do get regularly stung in the Whitsundays as we're always hearing about it on the news :eek:

http://www.whitsundaytourism.com/oth...nformation.cfm

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Stacks of bluebottles washed up on the beaches down here yesterday and a woman got a sting ray spike in her foot the other day.

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You can never say an area is stinger-free, as it all depends on the prevailing winds and tides.

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Suppose that is true.... Just like the old crocs that end up further south than Rocky! But they do advertise the Bundy Costline as stinger free and I havent heard of anyone getting stung.... But there are plenty of tiger sharks out there lol!!!!!

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Seen Bluebottles of Lady Musgrave Island...

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indeed...

http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/4389500/11775088

we used to swim inside the stinger nets when we first got here, but even they are just stinger resistant so now we stick to our pool :o

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Well one has just flown in my kitchen and I'm well north of Brisbane.:rofl:

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:huh: Missed that one!!

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so pretty much the word is, buy or rent a house with a pool and live anywhere on the coast.

cheers

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:eek: OMG! That is an awesome photo but I bet that guy really had brown trousers afterwards!:D

:thumbsup: