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I am at the top of Fraser Island. Or K’gari, which is it’s proper name. It means ‘paradise’ in the language of the Butchulla people. It is, in fact, quite paradisical. The sand is white, the water is aquamarine, and when anchoring the boat, I could see the chain laying across the sea bed with …
Month: July 2019
Surfing. It’s a mindset. The ability to throw oneself into the cold cold water, even though you are far more comfortable when dry. The mental strength required to squeeze your tea (or coffee) warmed body into a skin tight black tube and ignore the fact that you’re about to douse yourself in enough saline to …
“I want your life.” A comment I’ve received a couple of times on Instagram. I always respond the same way. “You want my Instalife.” Because the Instalife looks like the business!! Sunsets, turtles and cute creative children sailing on azure seas. Yeah. Last night I spent two hours on a rocking boat hold a torch …
Rainbow Beach Lagoon. One of the most perfectly sublime days ever. The water in the lagoon was a complete glass-out, and from the kayak I could see ALL. THE. THINGS. A big skulking flathead, many bream and three turtles. Then I started to spot the sleeping stingrays – tails like long dead-straight sticks are the …
This thing we’re doing, the day-hopping, we began in order to avoid sleeping whales. I tend to believe that the risk of hitting a sleeping whale is far less than something more mundane, such as being run over by a car. The noise that the boat makes as it sloshes its way through the water …
Ah the Gold Coast. Southport, to be specific. Home to the lumbering elderly, the down and out, the fucked up druggies, people decamping from other countries, and a few who have built humpies on rafts, whacked on an outboard motor and floated them out into Bum’s Bay, where they’re photographed from the air every seven …