Late night for me last night - LandSAR exercise, bringing a stretcher with a mock patient out from up a river. Out in the dark, lots of river crossings - great fun but a bit late for a school night! Zzzzz
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That's frigging awesome.
I salute guys (and girls) like you who do this kind of stuff.
I hope I'm never one of your customers, but it's good to know there are people like you.
Aww Cheers. It's a fun group to be part of. I'm part of NZ CaveSAR as well - they are a seriously impressive group of people. I'm always left in awe whenever I'm around them. Fearless.
That does sound like fun! Hope you got to sleep in!
No such luck 😂
Another productive day, this time a paddle, a walk, and a snorkel, still in the far north.
One more day on the water, and it's time to go home.
Awesome, that looks like a great trip!
Back to work, ho hum. I thought I'd catch up, instead I had a 2.5 hour morning workshop and a 2 hour afternoon workshop and an hour meeting after that and now my brain is nope.
I just had one of those swims which make you feel young again.
Oh boy, I need to swim more if it does that!
By "swim" I mean float around vaguely in the ocean. I saw an big fish jump straight up into the air quite close to me.
Like, it wasn't just a silver blur like they usually are. There was a moment at the height of the jump where I could see all the details of the fish (eye, mouth, fins, scale pattern).
That's awesome! When I was a kid we sometimes used to go to the breakwater in New Plymouth at dusk and watch the fish jump out of the water (I have no idea why they did that, maybe that was a good time for sharks to hunt?).
Or kingfish, hapuka... that sounds cool, regular fish jumping shows!
Have to admit after a few fish jumping yesterday I had a brief moment of thinking hang on why exactly are good-sized fish trying to escape, but then I remembered sharks don't really want to eat humans.
It doesn't mean they don't occasionally eat one anyway 😆
Shhh ha ha.
They've only killed like 13 or 14 people since NZ started recording it.
