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Bonnie Hancock

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

And I saw a 250-kilometer stretch of limestone cliff.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

So that tells me one thing.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

There's nowhere to stop.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

There's nowhere you can actually go into land there.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

And I thought, okay, I'm going to have to need a catamaran for this trip because initially I told my husband I'd be right to do it with just a tinny beside me, which he laughed at.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

But for 250k, there's nothing but sheer, you know, big, steep cliff faces.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

And it's actually named after a Dutch East Indies trading ship that wrecked there in the 1800s.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

And I believe it's 1800s.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

And basically, it's got a lot of history, but known for being a really notorious stretch of ocean.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

And I had to paddle that on an eight kilogram carbon fiber ski.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

So I was incredibly seasick.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

I wanted to do it in 48 hours.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

I didn't want it to last any longer.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

And we got across there in two days, but it was another really big test of our resilience.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

It was along that coast that you had your first shark encounter.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

What happened?

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

Absolutely.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

So it was a place called near Shark Bay, actually.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

All these names are giveaways.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

Right, right.