Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Rodney Fox Shark Museum


See! I Told You They Get This Big!
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Oh yeah!

The Rodney Fox Shark Museum at Glenelg ROCKED!!!

I loved it!

I am fascinated by sharks and just stumbled across the Rodney Fox Museum when I was kicking about in Glenelg killing some time before I headed back to Sydney. What a find!

It was full of shark stuff like great white shark teeth, jaws, newspaper clippings about shark attacks and loads of photos and stuff about sharks being caught.

There was also a video telling the story of Rodney Fox's life - what a LEGEND this man is!

He got attacked by a great white shark whilst competing in a spear fishing competition off the South Australian coast back in the 60's.

The shark got him pretty bad and he had some horrific injuries and they didn’t think he was going to make it. However, Rodney pulled through against the odds, what a HERO!

Rodney Fox then dedicated the rest of his life to shark conservation. He has produced many shark documentaries, been heavily involved in scientific research about sharks and also contributed to the classic film Jaws.

He also runs cage diving trips with great white sharks from Port Lincoln in South Australia.

When I’ve got a spare $2000 I’m going! DEFO!

Adam and Woodsy are going to come too (not sure if they realise this yet but they are).

Rodney Fox – WHAT A GEEZER!

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