Balmoral Beach
Sheltered harbour beach with a shark-netted swimming enclosure, sandstone headlands and a Spanish Mission bathing pavilion.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Balmoral Beach in Sydney returns to Monday, 17 January 1955, when local fisherman Tom Walsh warned that a shark, maybe twelve feet long, had been circling these waters for three days. Thirteen-year-old John Willis nodded and waded in anyway, spear gear in hand, heading for his lobster pot near the point, on a beach packed with people just after half past two. The guide also traces the steel shark net strung across the bay twenty years earlier, in 1935, and how long it stayed up afterward. Listen from the sand near the point where the old anchor posts once stood.
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