Lake Conjola in Australia is a popular holiday destination, known for water skiing, kayaking and fishing. However, there are no great white sharks to be seen.

The appearance of a young white shark in the coastal lake in New South Wales came as a great surprise to those who witnessed the event.

Leon Hallam captured a video of the shark swimming along the shoreline and posted it to Facebook.

Leonardo Guida, a shark scientist with the Australian Marine Conservation Society, told Yahoo Australia: “It’s a white shark. No doubt about it. Pretty bloody incredible.”

“Here we have a great white shark in the early stages of its life in a coastal area,” Guida told Yahoo Australia. “And to be able to see that by standing on the ground and looking down is an experience that very few people get to have.

“People pay thousands of dollars to watch these animals from cages and there’s no guarantee that you’ll see them. But here on the NSW coast, looking out into the water, you see this beautiful young great white shark swimming peacefully by.”

Lake Conjola, classified as a barrier estuary, is located 300 kilometres from Port Stephens, one of two white shark nurseries on Australia’s east coast. The other is Corner Inlet in eastern Victoria.

Guida told Yahoo Australia he believes the shark was likely following the salmon migration to the south coast and the lake.

“It’s just the ocean working as it should,” he told Yahoo Australia. “And we’re very lucky in this case to be able to see something like this.”

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