Sarah Kanowski

How did COVID lead you to this idea of paddling around Australia?

Absolutely.

Well, that gut feeling, that push to achieve something, you first had that as a kid around being an Iron Woman.

How did you chase that goal, that earlier athletic goal?

So, I mean, the term, the name Ironwoman gives a sense of the kind of level required.

What are the events involved in becoming an Ironwoman?

So you were giving it everything, you and your older sister, Courtney.

Did you achieve what you wanted as an Ironwoman, Bonnie?

Yeah.

After that time away, you refocused on surf ski eventually.

What's a surf ski look like?

And how do you control them?

How do you manoeuvre them, Bonnie?

So you'd spent a lot of time in the ocean and you knew that you had the ability to push your body really hard.

But was there a part of you that was, you know, after the excitement of reading this book about the woman who paddled around Australia, was there a part of you that thought, actually, maybe this is too big for me to take on?

So you disregarded the why not column.

You went with the why column and you...

did all that hard work of getting sponsors and a crew and a boat and set off from the Gold Coast.

And you say that when you paddled out, you turned right.

As you began logging those long days on the surf ski, I mean, this might sound like a weird question, Bonnie, but were you lonely?