Flashback: Holidaymakers turned away from beaches as 12 sharks close in to feed on 40-ton beached whale - 1971

By Port Macquarie Museum
Updated October 8 2021 - 3:51pm, first published 3:02pm
Shark bait: A 40-ton whale beached itself on the sand at Flynns Beach, attracting many sharks and causing beaches to be closed, 1971.
Shark bait: A 40-ton whale beached itself on the sand at Flynns Beach, attracting many sharks and causing beaches to be closed, 1971.

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