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Drone captures travel blogger's hectic brush with a great white shark

"I was shaking."
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It's one thing to hope to catch a glimpse of shark while on vacation, but it's another to be stalked by one. Ask French blogger behind "Travelling with Isa," Isabelle Fabre.

It seems like she found herself being shadowed by a great white shark while kitesurfing off Fitzgerald River National Park on the Western Australian coast. The footage captured on video by drone and posted on Facebook on Jan. 9.

"As usual, I was first thinking that it was my kite shadow... but no. Then I thought it was a dolphin trick. You know, when they spring out just in front of you! But no," Fabre explained in French.

"When it passed beneath me, I realised it was a huge great white shark."

Fabre said the winds were light and she was struggling to get herself out of the water, as the drone's operator shouted at her to get out.

"Finally I reached the beach. I was shaking," Fabre said. As you would.

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Johnny Lieu

Mashable Australia's Web Culture Reporter.Reach out to me on Twitter at @Johnny_Lieu or via email at jlieu [at] mashable.com


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