SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – An usual scene involving a great white shark occurred in the waters near Point Reyes this weekend.
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Sharks typically stay away from the Northern California coastline at this time of year, but on Sunday Marin County shark expert Scot Anderson witnessed a rare event while on Point Reyes beach.
Anderson was walking down the sand when he spotted a great white shark feasting on a dead whale.
"The head and stuff were actually still submerged," he described to KCBS Radio. "All I could see was the tail fin and the dorsal fin, but it was clearly a large white shark."
The whale then washed to shore, bringing more evidence of the shark's presence.
"The whale finally stranded on the beach there and it had these couple bites on it that were clearly evidence of the white sharks," Anderson said.
Anderson, who is the vice president of the California White Shark Project, explained that sharks normally leave the Point Reyes area around December, baffling the expert on why the animal was in the vicinity in May.
"They go off to this place that we've nicknamed 'The Cafe' and it's an area about the size of New Mexico and if you drew a line from the tip of Baja to Hawaii and you went to the middle of that line, that's the area they go to," he said.
Sharks will return to California's coastal waters around August or September.
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