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Bonnie Hancock

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

These are big python looking creatures.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

They're yellow with black markings.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

They're thick as pythons and they coil up at you as you pass.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

And apparently they've got to bite you between your fingers or your toes to actually kill you because they do have venom.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

But I think it's about puncturing the skin.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

They can only puncture those really thin bones.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

bits of skin, but scary.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

I absolutely dislike snakes.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

And these were in the water.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

So not only sharks, crocodiles, sea snakes.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

I also had a day, speaking about sharks, because my mind was on crocodiles, where a huge shark leapt out of the water.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

None of my crew saw it on the boat, a couple of hundred meters ahead of me and disappeared.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

And the skipper, when I described it, thinks it might've been a bronze whaler.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

It was massive.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

And these are just things you think, am I in a movie right now?

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

I couldn't make this stuff up.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

I would say it was about equal in terms of difficulty.

Conversations
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

It was 32 degree in the water.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

This was up near Darwin.

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Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

So it feels like a bath and those creatures, you know, love that water.