{"id":629656,"date":"2026-04-25T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629656\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:01:12","slug":"beaches-at-sydneys-royal-national-park-close-after-dead-whale-brings-significant-shark-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629656\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaches at Sydney’s Royal National Park close after dead whale brings ‘significant’ shark activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several popular beaches in Sydney’s Royal National Park have been closed due to increased shark activity after a large whale carcass washed up on a rock platform.<\/p>\n

Surf lifesavers noticed the whale early on Saturday morning on the southern end of Era Beach when they showed up for patrols.<\/p>\n

Garie, Wattamolla, Era and Burning Palms have been closed as a result of the shark activity.<\/p>\n

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Shark surveillance drones and jet skis are patrolling the area. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Shark surveillance drones and jet skis have been relocated to keep watch over the area.<\/p>\n

“The lifesavers are reporting a significant amount of sharks visibly off the beach and around the rock platform,” Surf Life Saving NSW (SLSNSW) CEO Stephen Pearce said.<\/p>\n

“Our warning is, ‘Don’t go in the water’<\/p>\n

“We can’t prevent people from going in the water, but knowing just how many sharks are there and the reports of larger white and bull sharks in the water, they’re not the fish you want to be swimming in the same water with.”<\/p>\n

Beachgoers are being advised to avoid surfing, swimming, diving or spearfishing.<\/p>\n

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Beachgoers are warned to stay out of the water. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

The species of the whale is unclear.<\/p>\n

“It looks like it’s been decaying for a little while out to sea,” Mr Pearce said.<\/p>\n

He said the organisation will now work with the National Parks and Wildlife Service to keep the beaches shut, likely for at least 24 hours.<\/p>\n

“National Parks will have to make arrangements to try and come in and determine what they’re going to do with the carcass.<\/p>\n

“I think they’re obviously going to have to remove it.”<\/p>\n

Mr Pearce said SLSNSW chose to issue an alert because of the long weekend, the “high visitation” area and the amount of sharks in the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several popular beaches in Sydney’s Royal National Park have been closed due to increased shark activity after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,305058,3978,305057,305055,44,305059,292289,305060,305061,279192,305056],"class_list":{"0":"post-629656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-burning-palms","11":"tag-drones","12":"tag-era-beach","13":"tag-garie-beach","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-royal-national-park-sydney","16":"tag-shark-activity","17":"tag-shark-monitoring-drones","18":"tag-shark-patrols","19":"tag-surf-life-saving-nsw","20":"tag-wattamolla-beach"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}