Half Moon Bay Kayak Anglers Spot Shark Fin

Shark sightings off the California coast are common, but they never stop making your skin crawl with either excitement or pure terror. Here’s more from CBS Bay Area (plus the above video):

Ian Walters works as a teacher at Oakland’s Head-Royce School. He was filming his friend as they were out kayaking and fishing off Pillar Point Harbor north of Half Moon Bay and by famed big-wave surf spot Mavericks Beach last Tuesday when a shark started following his friend.

“You all right?” Walters is heard asking as he sees the sharks dorsal fin cutting through the water about 15 feet behind is friend’s kayak.

“Yeah, I’m just gonna start moving in,” his friend says in the video.

The shark, believed to a great white, left the kayakers alone eventually. But you just never know what you may encounter out there.