I don't surf with a board, prefer just to catch waves the natural way. Anyway, I was visiting Coffs and was out really , really early, nobody else on the beach. I'm floating out the back looking over my shoulder at a likely wave rising up behind me (the sun was behind it, just over the horizon) I see this huge, black shape in it, with that characteric vertical fin on the back ..... my heart froze. It swam right at me and then passed a couple of meters away from me, and as it passed (and I sort of fell into the wave)... I saw that it had a horizontal fin. So, I caught a wave with a dolphin, but it still took me half an hour to stop shaking!