[Paddlewise] Kayaker receives a bravery award

I thought I would mention this as I know the incident got international
coverage. One of our Club paddlers, David Winkworth, has just been notified
that he is to receive a bravery award for saving the life of a fellow
paddler on an expedition in the North of Australia last year. Dave is a very
experienced kayaker and designed and built my current kayak - Nadgee
Expedition. I owe a lot of my kayaking skills to Dave.

Dave and two other paddlers were doing a trip from Cairns to Thursday Island
in the top of Eastern Australia. With only a 100km to go on a small coral
kay fellow paddler Arunas was working on his kayak in knee deep water when a
4 metre crocodile came out of nowhere and grabbed him. The crocodile started
dragging him out to sea when Dave, who was standing nearby, jumped on the
back of the crocodile grabbing it around the waste. This gave it such a
fright that it took off.

The whole account is written up on
http://www.nswseakayaker.asn.au/mag/40/deadmanwalking.html

David 
Australia




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