00:00A husband in mourning, the day after, the bodies of his wife Ada and her friend were
00:07recovered from a popular beach near Streaky Bay.
00:09Well I was home just enjoying life and then the policeman come around and he said she'd
00:24got drowned out the back beach there.
00:29Mr Hunt said his wife had gone fishing with her 67 year old friend from Adelaide.
00:33He expected they'd return late afternoon but they never came back.
00:37I still haven't sort of got used to the idea yet.
00:41Emergency services responded to a call for help in the morning.
00:44The bodies were recovered in the afternoon.
00:47The tight knit Streaky Bay community struggling to come to terms with how the women died.
00:52Still very raw, still a lot that people don't understand or have got their head around yet.
00:57People familiar with the popular fishing and surfing beach say calm conditions on the ocean
01:01can give a false sense of security.
01:04With the high tide and the surging swell there's a big release of water which creates a rip and
01:09that rip is very hard to navigate to make your way back to shore once you're caught in it.
01:15At the moment the main thing is just making sure the family and friends are okay.
01:18Michael Hunt was taken to the hospital by police and is yet to see his wife's body.
01:23But community support has been overwhelming.
01:25It's just been one person after another since then.
01:29The council says it will offer help to family and any members of the small west coast community
01:34in need of support.
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