What is an Australian Adventure without being stung by a poison animal? Exactly - That’s why I was stung by a Cobbler in my right foot last wednesday. A Cobbler is a sort of catfish living close to seaweed and has a poison sting somewhere at its head. The impact of such a meeting is: extreme pain, which goes up to your hip. A foot which swells that you wanna cut it off. And you get morphines at hospital to relief the pain. That´s the only thing that really helps besides putting your foot into hot water to demolish the protein chaines of the poison. That´s fun!
Meanwhile four days have passed since the sneaky attack. My foot has massive blisters and to walk is still a torture. I´m curious what´ll happen. It´s a shame that we´ve got wind today. But my foot does not fit into the strap-pad-combi.
The ironie of the story is, that a couple of days before it happened I´d read in the local papers that there haven´t been caught any Cobbler for the last 10 years.
Without salt, life´s not that sweet. Not being able to taste anything, we got back to Perth safely and breathe smog, inhale neon lights, are annoyed by right-turners on Stirling Highway and the weird shopping hours. In such situations you´d better try not to get used to city life and feel like being on vacation and another trip. It´s exciting here and we have cinemas and Hungry Jack´s back. And that´s so good.
Everyday the area arround Perth is discovered by us and we go to close National Parks, surfing at Secret Harbour or have a look in Perth´s Aquarium to get to know your mates you hang arround in the water. Meanwhile we have newly discovered spots in the south at Mandurah which have a awesome nature site. Damn it. Why haven’t we done that before. So, that´s the way it goes and time flies like an arrow.
Little by little gloves have to be taken off, and I can count the days to my departure. The planings for the Trophy are made and there´s no point thinking about kiting. What to do when it does not blow at all anymore. That´s why we use every wind which´s there and is even happy if you just can ride a couple of meters. I like it.
I´ll work on the new material been taken during the trip through Gwandana and the last days. Otherwise I´ll select more photos, I like to show you.
Well, The new Psycho IV is gonna rock!! I´m really looking forward and you´d better organise test days at Boardway.
Cars, licking oil suck. Paddle is the masterplan and body-boarder take every wave.
Dear diary..
The journey´s been going on and we went up to Kalbarri. We gave us a massive injection full of canyons and hiking through the National Park. It looks so amazing how the stream forms the red stones and builds a spectacular scenery.
We went back through Geraldton where I went to a doctor, cos my flu was becoming worse and worse. Still I can´t hear, smell nor taste properly. And we cook so nice stuff every evening. I´m really jelious on Nik. Let´s see what´s gonna happen.
At least good anti-biotica scaries the wind which is still not there, but fortunately the swell is not impressed. That´s why Nik and I find ourselves more often connected to a surfboard than to a kite.
Anyway, we´ve been enjoying the nice western coastline with its sunshine and swell. And heading slowly down south back to Perth.
