Bonnie Hancock

point of mainland contact in South Australia before we did the bike crossing.

And the place just before Coffin Bay was Misery Bay.

So someone had named this apparently after they'd crossed the bite.

That's where we started from.

And I was facing a 1200 kilometre crossing on a ski.

It had actually never been done in history.

So there was no blueprint.

We actually didn't know if it physically could be done.

It's just quiet out there.

And I remember I would often take my headphones off and just listen.

And you realize the pace of life that far out to sea is so slow.

And you know, when I came back, it took me a few months to get used to the pace of life on land again.

All there was out there for that two weeks was albatross birds and mutton birds.

And what I thought was fascinating is that the mutton birds return to shore every evening.

They fly at 80 kilometers an hour to do that.

The albatross flowed on the wind for months at a time.

And I had these situations where the albatross were very interested in me because they'd obviously seen no crazy person on a ski out there and they would come within touching distance.

And I remember reaching out and touching an albatross.

It put its wing out, sitting on the water and just crazy stuff like that.

But other than that, it's just the wind and the swell.