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 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Amazing Story! You've got to love Oz! 9 of the worlds 10 deadliest snakes, killer spiders, sea wasps, box jellies, great whites and salt water crocs! I guess it's a great place to be in the pool business! cya *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Yeah, its tough in Australia alright. 2 weeks ago we pulled a 3 foot sea snake out of Sydney Harbour at the Manly Pier. Well we didn't actually touch it we called the marine biologist down from the nearby shark aquarium and he picked it up after we coaxed it onto the beach, explaining that it was sick. But he did say that it is extremely deadly so we were well advised not to have tried to handle it anyway. Dave Winkworth's trick will take b bit of beating though. You can count the survivors of croc attacks in this country on one hand! At 10:02 10/08/2000 -0400, Bob Denton wrote: >Amazing Story! You've got to love Oz! 9 of the worlds 10 deadliest snakes, >killer spiders, sea wasps, box jellies, great whites and salt water crocs! I >guess it's a great place to be in the pool business! > > >cya *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Bob sounds like you might have been reading Bill Bryson's "A Sunburnt Country". An American's view on Australia. I laughed all the way through it. Cheers David > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Denton [SMTP:BDenton_at_aquagulf.com] > Sent: Friday, 11 August 2000 0:03 > To: 'Whyte, David'; 'paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net' > Subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Kayaker receives a bravery award > > Amazing Story! You've got to love Oz! 9 of the worlds 10 deadliest snakes, > killer spiders, sea wasps, box jellies, great whites and salt water crocs! > I > guess it's a great place to be in the pool business! > > > cya > > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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