SHARK GIRL KIM

For generations my family has lived on the water. Mooloolaba was my grounds growing up and I was 11 when I asked to get a surfboard. No one else in the family surfed, so there I was, this little kid lugging around a big old Hayden Kenny with a deep single fin. Mum would drop me off at the spit at Mooloolaba and I’d be there all day. There were no rock walls yet and the best surfers would ride out at Point Cartwright, where the waves would roll all the way through.

I started fishing with Dad around the same time I started surfing. By the time I was 14, I was making a living handline fishing on Dad’s small boats, catching snapper and pearl