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Bonnie Hancock

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
708 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

The skipper called out, stay close to the boat.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

I thought it was because of the current.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

And I thought, yeah, I'm doing that.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

I'm following you.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

We broke the current.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

10 minutes later, they stopped the boat and said, get on right now.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

They'd actually seen that crocodile again.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

Yep, I should have mentioned that part.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

While we were going around and around this current, they actually did see a crocodile with that torch outside the current basically watching me.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

And 10 minutes later, they saw it again.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

So these sorts of things are, you know, they're risks that you know that you're taking when you get in the water.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

They didn't tell me those details when they got me on the boat because I still had to keep paddling.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

They told me a week later the full story.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

But this was, this is waters known for that.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

I mean, I consider the crocodile the most dangerous predator in the world.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

It's been around for tens of thousands of years for a reason, right?

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

Yeah.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

Yep, there were sea snakes that I never expected.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

Again, I heard about them.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

I laughed and thought snakes in the water as if.