ANOTHER large hammerhead shark has been found dead on the shores of Lake Macquarie.
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And this time there is a creepy overtone of uncanny coincidence.
The 3-metre shark was found by three children in shallow water on rocks on the shoreline of Wangi Wangi on the anniversary, to the day, that a near-identical hammerhead beached itself to die at Myuna Bay, in July, last year.
Resident Pat Workman said there appeared to be no obvious fatal injury on the body, and neighbours had reported sighting a shark chasing mullet a few days earlier.
It seems hammerheads are no strangers to Lake Macquarie.
In the late 1960s, Wangi policeman Kevin Griffin and friend Charlie Carroll caught a 3-metre hammerhead shark in the lake and hung it in the Wangi Wangi main street for three days.
They charged passers-by to view it until decomposition and the resulting smell encouraged the return of the carcass to the lake.
