Great White Suirprise Appearance!

We all know the movie Jaws and the terror it brought to us. Well, now imagine learning that this same type of shark was just spotted where it rarely goes---right where you fished as a kid and took your own kids fishing! 

A very large Great White Shark was spotted off Damariscove Island, several miles out to sea from Boothbay Harbor.  The island has and abandoned life guard station and sits right on the edge of deep sea water.  It does not surprise me in the least that it wandered in there off the southern tip near the motions buoy to feed off of a whale carcass.  That a lobsterman acutually saw it and got it on camera so it could be identified was remarkable--very unlikley to make the sighting, get the shot and have it turn out well enough to have it a confirmed sighting.  Go ahead and see for yourself--just google--"boothbay great white" and watch the video.  That brought it to life for me as one who went through those waters routinely in a power boat--smaller than this shark. 

You can see the red roofed coast guard station directly above in the left had point of the island.  Just off the opposite side, the "longer finger" is where the shark was sighted.  I trolled for mackerel in and out of this small harbor. 

Isn't this the real story---of the wild side of the ocean that reveals its awesome power of nature in so many forms, be it the waves, the currents, or the creatures--all of them beyond our control and reminding us of our place in the scheme of God's creation.