After documenting the annual mullet run for the first time last year, Forster aerial photographer Adam Fitzroy returned to Nine Mile Beach, Tuncurry earlier this month to capture Danny Elliott and his fellow fishermen hauling in another large school of the fish.
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Adding to the excitement this year were a number of great white sharks trying to get in on the action, with one particular specimen coming within metres of the shore as the fishermen pulled in their catch.
With Adam acting as both cameraman and an extra pair of eyes in the sky, he said once he alerted the fishermen to the shark's presence they didn't stay in the water for long.
"Within seconds the water was all clear," he said.
"They all got out."
Adam estimated the shark to be around two metres long, while the one near the break wall at the beginning of the video was a juvenile great white, he said.
The spectacle took around 45 minutes to play out, but as usual there were a few hours of downtime spent on the beach while Adam and the fishermen waited for the fish to run out of the lake and onto the beach.
Once the action did start, however, Adam said the fishermen were incredibly efficient, which he believed might have been helped by the video he made last year.
"I reckon me shooting it last year allowed them to fine-tune it and get it done faster," he said.
"They wouldn't have had that perspective before."
Much like last year's video of the annual phenomenon, Adam's photographic efforts have again attracted attention, with the Seven Network set to run his video on its The Latest program tomorrow evening (Saturday, May 9).
It's also been getting a healthy response on Adam's social media channels.
"I appreciate the community and the outpouring of support," he said.
And that's not the only video of Adam's that's attracted attention, with some of the footage he captured of great white sharks cruising Nine Mile Beach last year set to feature in a Discovery Channel documentary in the United States, which will run as a part of shark week in July.
Understandably, he's pretty happy about getting his vision out to such a large audience.
"For someone like me - I consider myself an amateur/semi-pro - getting that kind of exposure is ridiculous," he said.
To check out more of Adam's photos and videos, click here.
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